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December 19, 2013
Imagine it‘s November 2014 and you are witnessing the first round of Romanian Presidential elections. If things stay as agreed between the partners in the Union of Socialists and Liberals, and the economy does not crash (a very unlikely scenario since it had the biggest growth in EU28 in 2013), Crin Antonescu, the leader of […]
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Communications, English, Enlargement, Europe's East, Romanian |
Last week was an important week for us for two reasons: the first Horizon 2020 calls for proposals were finally launched on 11th December and we had our last training course of 2013, EU R&I Project Management and Financial Reporting, which took place in Vienna on 12-13 December. It was Europa Media’s first time in […]
December 15, 2013
I received this excellent text from Vadym Omelchenko from the Gorshenin institute. I want to share it with all interested immediately, and I basically made no edits: “In the tensed situation in Ukraine today, the Gorshenin Institute experts analyse both the essential senses and the resources used in the political battle occurring today in Ukraine. […]
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Communications, English, EU Citizens and Media, Europe's East, Media Freedom |
November 26, 2013
Jan Techau is the director of Carnegie Europe, a think-tank in Brussels that focuses on Europe’s foreign policy. I had a fascinating interview with him, because the discussion focused on precisely the right issues of my book The Next Europe. This interview is number 3 of the 15-20 in total, which form the journalistic basis of the […]
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Communications, English, EU Citizens and Media, Future EU, Global Europe |
November 18, 2013
12/11/2013 Gambling experts, sports commentators, athletes and EU decision-makers gathered in Brussels today for the first European Lotteries Sustainable Gambling Conference in the European Parliament. The event, hosted by MEPs Hannu Takkula and Santiago Fisas Ayxelà in the European Parliament, aims to address where things stand on match-fixing in Europe and discuss the solutions to […]
“The Obama phenomenon” allures Ukrainian politicians to embark on a slippery slope of direct replicating the western experience. The forecast of results – is pessimistic. In the countries of developed democracy voters have long been used to the fact that the candidates for elective public offices diligently win the electoral sympathies showing that nothing human […]
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Communications, English, EU Citizens and Media, Europe's East, Global Europe |
October 28, 2013
The less time is left before а possible signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in Vilnius, the more anti-EU propaganda appears in Ukraine. Here’s some pictures I’ve made today in the Kyiv subway. Association with the EU leads to growing prices If Ukraine will sing an Agreement with EU, prices will rise more than ten […]
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Communications, English, EU Citizens and Media, Europe's East, Global Europe, Trade & Industry |
October 23, 2013
The Russian state-owned mass media carry out the systemic propaganda to discredit Ukraine. The indisputable headliner of the “hatred broadcasts” remains Dmitry Kiselev, the presenter on the leading state-owned channel in Russia – ORT. “New Yanukovych’s bosses in Europe”, “Yanukovych – in front of the rattrap which will break his spine” and other Kiselev’s passages […]
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Communications, Europe's East, Global Europe, Innovation & Enterprise |
October 16, 2013
Lets face it, the legal basis and governance structure of the European School system is like a rather large pile of dog mess left in the Foyer of the Justus Lipsius building. There is no voice, anywhere saying its all ok, except of course the EURSC itself living in its Hades. Everyone knows it is […]
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Communications, English, EU Citizens and Media, Member States |
October 14, 2013
Sadly most of us only get serious about our security, cyber or otherwise, when we or someone close to us have a bad experience. And with cyber it’s worse. While the consequences of inadequate physical security have been clear from the time men lived in caves, cybersecurity has no such place in our collective psyche. […]
October 11, 2013
European interest is out of breath for several reasons: great expectations that go unfulfilled (from European money to freedom of labor in all EU countries); the loss of magic of the European project in the absence of pragmatic communication on Europea…
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Communications, English, EU Elections 2014, Future EU, Member States |
below is a parliamentary question submitted by a Danish MEP. It raises an interesting legal question as to whether the Commission through its practices and particularly its financing practices, exerts a de facto veto over the European School. A power (if it exists at all) the Commission wields on an ad hoc basis which is […]
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Communications, English, EU Citizens and Media, Member States |
October 10, 2013
Its a sad reflection on the legitimacy of the European Union when the European Commission itself avoids the application of the TFEU and the rule of law in Europe in relation to the European Schools. The European Commission and European taxpayers provide 280m euro per year to the EURSC, in the full knowledge that the […]
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Communications, English, EU Citizens and Media, Future EU, InfoSociety, Member States, UK in Europe |
I was told yesterday by letter from Mr Van Rompuy’s office that “we regret to inform you that the Council of the European Union does not have competence, as this issue falls under the responsibility of the European Commission. Therefore, Mr Van Rompuy cannot intervene in this matter.” The Commission take the line that they […]
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Communications, English, EU Citizens and Media, Member States |
September 29, 2013
The governing party of New Democracy -one of the two parties of the coalition government in Greece along with PASOK- has meticulously developed a communication strategy since mid-summer that was aiming to equalize the dangers of the extreme right party Golden Dawn with the front opposition leftist party SYRIZA in the quest of maximizing its […]
