Thursday 17 May 2012

Editor's Choice

Britain, a referendum and an ever-closer reckoning

The Eurozone crisis changes everything. If by the end of the year, the Eurozone is left limbless and the economy sits in deep freeze, the binary in/out argument for continuing EU membership will no longer be left just to Nigel Farage and the Tory Bufton Tufton’s out in the shires. If enough Tories don’t see that Margaret Thatcher’s continent-wide single market baby is worth protecting, which they don’t, then it won’t be long before they ask the people to foster it to the evil uncles in Brussels.

 

 

Latest Posts

Engaging with MEPs 2.0

Posted by Gary Finnegan on 14th May 2012

My name is Gary and I have a MySpace account. There, I’ve said it. In my defence, I haven’t used it for five years and I now forget the password. However, for [...]

Europe Needs a Real Growth Agenda

Posted by Ann Mettler on 10th May 2012

As Europe embarks on a quest for a new “Growth Compact,” it is clear that the old ways of facilitating a painless recovery via Keynesian stimulus spending is not an [...]

Vaut-il mieux être le premier à innover ou le premier à copier ceux qui innovent ?

Posted by jyhuwart on 15th May 2012

Vaut-il mieux être guépard ou vautour ? Le coucou est-il plus intelligent que l’hirondelle qui, chaque année, s’exténue à fabriquer son propre nid, alors que le premier se contente de squatter [...]

Micro algae will be the ultimate Biomass

Posted by Eberhard Rhein on 15th May 2012

Humanity will run out of fossil fuels before the end of this century latest. It will therefore need to develop sustainable substitutes, especially for air and road transport, as [...]

Britain, a referendum and an ever-closer reckoning

Posted by nucleus on 15th May 2012

The Eurozone crisis changes everything. If by the end of the year, the Eurozone is left limbless and the economy sits in deep freeze, the binary in/out argument for continuing [...]

Lutte contre la Piraterie : le Parlement européen prend position

Posted by EU-Logos on 15th May 2012

Elle ne peut être vaincue par les seuls moyens militaires, affirment les députés dans une résolution adoptée le 10 mai. Ils exhortent les Etats membres à renforcer la force de [...]

Brussels – a day like every day

Posted by Marek Siwiec MEP on 15th May 2012

1. Today the European Commission is supposed to adopt its annual report on the state of relations between the European Union and its partners from the Neighbourhood Policy. The document [...]

The media needs to react to the growing interest in women’s sport

Posted by sportetcitoyennete on 15th May 2012

Europe’s first think tank in the field of sport, Sport and Citizenship, launches the first workshop to discuss women in sport in the media, with a media-roundtable, hosted at the [...]

Greece leaving the eurozone? What about the geopolitical dimension?

Posted by Georgi Gotev on 15th May 2012

In 1989 the Soviet empire collapsed and over the next eighteen years the EU got hold of a large chunk of it. In the mindset of the Kremlin, in 2012, it’s [...]

Ange’s tough week

Posted by nucleus on 14th May 2012

By David Gow It was far worse than Angela Merkel imagined: her CDU slumped to its worst post-war result in Sunday’s NorthRhine-Westphalia poll and scored just 26.3%. The social democrats (SPD) [...]

Careful what you wish for – British sceptics beginning to understand our fates are tied

Posted by nucleus on 14th May 2012

Inexorably, it is dawning on a number of great British opinion-formers that if Greece falls out of the euro, the catastrophe that ensues will eclipse this country, too. Nucleus has been warning [...]

« Le championnat de France peut devenir une vraie vitrine du football européen »

Posted by sportetcitoyennete on 14th May 2012

Propos de Jean Rességuié (journaliste) recueillis par Inès Boutar et Maxime Leblanc lors du salon Galaxy Foot 2012         Sport et Citoyenneté a organisé dans le cadre du salon Galaxy Foot 2012 [...]

Public Consultation – “EU citizens: your rights, your future”

Posted by sportetcitoyennete on 14th May 2012

9 May is Europe Day. This should be more than just a day of celebration for citizens. The European Commission is calling on citizens all over the European Union to [...]

The wind in the sails of Eurosceptics

Posted by Marek Siwiec MEP on 14th May 2012

If the German Finance Minister Schäuble says that the eurozone would survive Greek exit, it means that such scenarios are no longer the domain of journalists and become a task [...]

El new deal europeo o de cómo crecer austeramente

Posted by Jesús González on 14th May 2012

El triunfo de François Hollande en las elecciones presidenciales francesas a hecho correr por Europa la especie de falso debate entre los defensores de la austeridad y los partidarios del [...]

Quo vadis Jens Weidmann?

Posted by Protesilaos Stavrou on 14th May 2012

On May 7 2012, Jens Weidmann, the president of the Deutsche Bundesbank published an article in the Financial Times titled “Monetary policy is no panacea for Europe’s ills“. From the [...]

Advertisement