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No blind trust in ‘blending’

July 22, 2019

  To boost its development cooperation and to fill funding gaps, the European Union is increasingly resorting to “blending”. While using tax payer-funded aid to encourage the engagement of private companies and investors in development can be helpful in certain cases, new Oxfam research has confirmed that private money is not a magical tool to… » read more

  Posted by Oxfam's EU Advocacy office in Brussels

Agriculture & Food, Aid Effectiveness, blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020, food, Sustainable Dev.

Centre-Right Federalism – A Reconciliation

May 24, 2019

Guest post by Radu Dumitrescu, one of the Editors-in-Chief of The New Federalist. The resurgence of right-wing nationalism and hatred in Europe has been aptly met with condemnation from across the political spectrum, from conservatives and liberals to social democrats and greens. And yet, the centre-right and the Manfred Webers of the world have had… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020

The EPPO Is Eastern Europe’s Best Hope Against Corruption

October 22, 2018

    Guest blog post by Radu Dumitrescu, one of the Editors-in-Chief of The New Federalist. According to Transparency International’s 2017 Corruption Perception Index, Eastern Europe was one of the worst-performing regions of the world, with an average score comparable to that of Central Asia. It is very easy to see why – Belarus, Serbia… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, EU institutions, Europe's East, Fundamental Rights, Justice & Home Affairs, Regional Policy

Always turning when the world’s burning: The EU needs to prioritise its effectiveness and unity to earn credibility

September 6, 2018

Guest blog post by Otto Ilveskero, MSc in EU Politics graduate from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a European Affairs writer for Finland’s leading foreign and security policy publication, The Ulkopolitist With enough external political crises, threats, and conflicts to rewrite Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire, the EU’s… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, EU institutions, Global Europe

No more memoranda for Greece

April 19, 2018

Interview with Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs. The interview was conducted by Dimitris Rapidis, coordinator of the European Progressive Forum. How do you explain the surge of far-right parties in many member-states in the EU and Eurozone during the last years? First of all, far-right parties have not… » read more

  Posted by Dimitris Rapidis

blogactiv, EU institutions, Greek

Zdechovsky MEP: Selmayr’s loyalty is not enough

March 29, 2018

Guest post by Tomas Zdechovsky. Zdechovsky is EPP Vice-Coordinator in the Budget Control Committee. “One of the reasons Communism was not successful economically was the planned economy. Bureaucrats in the capital decided at their desk how much wheat to grow in which season and with which fertiliser, to give just one example. They knew little… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, democracy, EU Citizens & Media, EU institutions, EurActiv.com, Future EU

Shared responsibility

Guest post by Joakim Palme, Chair, Delmi and Professor of political science at Uppsala University and Kristof Tamas, Director and Head of Secretariat, Delmi. The 2015 refugee crisis led to a series of changes in European Union migration policy, including the reintroduction of border controls and an arrangement with Turkey. Although the influx of asylum… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, democracy, EU borders, EU institutions, EurActiv.com, Fundamental Rights, Future EU, Global Europe

Defending a pro-European budget

March 2, 2018

Guest post by the steering committee of the Progressive Caucus* – Guillaume Balas (MEP, S&D), Sergio Cofferati (MEP, S&D), Eva Joly (MEP, Greens/EFA), Curzio Maltese (MEP, GUE/NGL), Florent Marcellesi (Greens/EFA), Dimitrios Papadimoulis (MEP, GUE/NGL), Georgi Pirinski (MEP, S&D), Elly Schlein (MEP, S&D), Ernest Urtasun (MEP, Greens/EFA). *The Progressive Caucus is a space of dialogue based… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Brexit, EU institutions, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, Future EU, Global Europe, Member States

A Europe of equals – Winning European hearts and minds

February 21, 2018

  Guest post by Tom Parker, CEO of Cambre. Parker is an active member of the British business community in Brussels and is a regular commentator on lobbying practice and the future of the advocacy profession. With an eye to 2019, European Parliament elections and the appointment of a new Commission, Jean Claude Juncker set… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, democracy, Elections, EU Citizens & Media, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Future EU, Global Europe, Justice & Home Affairs

Running Commentary XX – How the British came and went

January 30, 2018

In fourteen months time the European Union treaties will cease to apply to the United Kingdom. This event will bring to an end almost half a century of Britain’s unquiet membership of the continental bloc. Britain will have rejected the closer unity to which the EU is committed, marking a signal failure for Europe as… » read more

  Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe

blogactiv, EU institutions, EU Priorities 2020, UK in Europe

The EU’s rule of law crisis

October 27, 2017

Guest post by Arlind Puka, Administrative Assistant The refusal of Hungary and Slovakia to comply with an ECJ’s decision to uphold the EU’s refugee relocation scheme which aims to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy, has increased tensions between the EU and the Hungarian Prime Minister. In Hungary, Orban’s government has attacked the… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, EU institutions, Europe's East, Freedom of Speech, Future EU, Hungarian, Polish

Explorers of the “blue gold”

October 18, 2017

Guest post by Dan Luca, Senior Director of EURACTIV and lecturer on communication techniques and the European Union at VUB, ULB Brussels and SNSPA Bucharest. Why do I work in Brussels? The “blue city” has gradually become the political pole with the largest multicultural community. Apart from the European Parliament or the famous European Commission,… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, communication, Education, EU institutions

A Single President is Exactly What the EU Needs

October 17, 2017

Guest post by Corey Cooper, Europe Fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP). He is also a Research Associate in US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Last month, European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker delivered his third and most important State of the European Union address. His remarks to the European Parliament… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, democracy, EU institutions, EU Treaty & Institutions, Future EU
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