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July 20, 2018
For more than one year your author has been avidly following the regular news and gossip updates from the United States regarding the Mueller investigation. It is one of the reasons why this blog has been so quiet – the news I am most interested in appears to have little EU relevance. Then this weekend… » read more
Posted by FinancialGuy Writes!
Guest post by Pedro-Manuel López In a summer in which an average of five refugees crossing the Bavarian-Austrian per day can cause a German government crisis and wrangling over European harbor access for half a dozen ships transporting rescued refugees leads to an emergency EU summit, it seems fitting to conceive new elite border patrol… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wrote the second letter to Juncker and Tusk to ask that the subdivision of migrants has to become a practice managed by a cabinet or crisis committee under the aegis of the EU Commission, which then acts as a mediator with the various governments. According to him, the Italian… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
July 19, 2018
As the dust settles over the wreckage left by President Trump’s visit to Europe, two things have caught my attention. The first concerns his attitude to the allies of the US, in the form of NATO and members of the EU. He gave everyone a hard time but I noticed – perhaps I am alone… » read more
Posted by Peter Bye
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at the NATO’s summit in Brussels that the Alliance would improve its ability to facilitate the movement of forces in Europe, but did not plan to deploy additional units to the Baltic countries and Poland. It should be noted that the 2016 NATO summit in Warsaw was Baltic-centric, highly concentrated… » read more
Posted by NATO and Baltic states today
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights condemned Russia for its lack of effort in identifying the perpetrators of the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, known for her investigation on Human Rights violation in Chechenia (in 2006) as well as for inflicting inhumane treatment to the three members of the Punk Riot punk group,… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
L’on n’ignore pas les défaillances techniques du Parlement européen. Je parle des bâtiments de Bruxelles. Faut-il les rénover ? Les restaurer ? Les reconstruire ? Un vent favorable nous transmet une note sûrement confidentielle qui examine chacune de ces trois options et en évalue le coût. Pour une « simple » rénovation il faudrait compter… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
Many Member States are in crisis: the UK with Brexit; Germany with immigration; Italy, Spain and Greece with an incomplete Schengen; too much regionalism from the Visegrad Four; France being too French. What to do: leave the EU? Wait for the storm to pass? Or change the EU? These are things to think about during… » read more
Posted by Daniel Gueguen
“It feels like something oriental, you walk at ease, you breathe happy, the skin expands and sniffs the sun like a large bath of light. ” [I] It is sitting on the port of Marseille that we feel so close and once so far on the other side of the Mediterranean. Both banks have maintained,… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
President Trump told UK Prime Minister Theresa May that the UK should sue the European Union rather than exit it. Mrs May said this was a too “brutal” solution. Why? It would disrupt Westminister as well as Brussels. Sue the European Union for what? One obvious case would be to attack in law the Spitzenkandidat… » read more
Posted by EURDEMOCRACY
Since the Brexit referendum, The EU has launched numerous new initiatives in order to regain momentum and show decisiveness. Amongst other moves, on February 2018, the Commission published the Western Balkans Enlargement Package, which tried to break the so-called ‘enlargement fatigue’. In order to reflect its commitment towards a ‘greater than 27’ EU, this document… » read more
Posted by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy
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blogactiv, Enlargement, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Regional Policy |
Today the Summit between the USA and Japan starts in Tokyo. Initially planned for 11 th July in Brussels, the meeting was rescheduled to heavy rains which killed more than 100 people in Japan. Juncker, President of the European Commission and D. Tusk, President of the European Council are in Tokyo with Prime Minister Shinzo… » read more
Posted by EU-Logos
July 16, 2018
The history of modern Turkey can be summarised as the history of military interventions. In the late Ottoman times, the army was the first and foremost institution through which the modernisation steps were taken. In parallel to that, the Army has been seen as the founder and the guardian of the newly founded regime in… » read more
Posted by BBurak
The main priorities of the state anticorruption policy in Ukraine should be defined in a special regulatory act – the Anticorruption Strategy. This is an important document for combating corruption in Ukraine, as it defines the main priorities of the state anticorruption policy for a certain period and is the only basis for the elaboration… » read more
In a groundbreaking bill approved by Irish parliament on Thursday 12th of July, the Irish government is set to completely divest its Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) from companies with shares in the fossil fuel industry. The move makes the Irish government the first government in the world to divest from fossil fuels. The Fossil… » read more
Posted by Arthur Wyns - environmental journalist
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Energy, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance |
