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December 4, 2017
There’s a dark side to otherwise welcome news that growth in central and Eastern Europe picked up significantly in the third quarter, helping to drive robust growth of 2.5% year-on-year in the EU’s economy. As growing wages and lower taxes spurred consumer spending, third-quarter expansion in the EU’s eastern member states beat both EU averages… » read more
Posted by The Euro Economy
November 13, 2017
Guest post by Ivan Pepic, political blogger at Ve?ernji list Jasmin Mujanovic’s article Russia’s Bosnia Gambit: Intrigue in the Balkans appeared on September 6th 2017 on the Foreign Affairs website. It contains numerous web links, probably supposed to serve as references that confirm his “hypotheses.” However, Mujanovic’s references are extremely biased, and his attempt to… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
November 6, 2017
The Czechs have elected their new House of Deputies. One party arose from that election as the clear, undisputed victor: ANO, a self-declared pro-European party, member of ALDE—European Liberal Democrats led by the well-known federalist, Guy Verhofstadt. The self-declaration of being pro-European is crucial, since the movement, although a supporter of Czech Republic’s staying in… » read more
Posted by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy
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blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, Europe's East, Social Europe & Jobs |
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
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blogactiv, EU institutions, Europe's East, Freedom of Speech, Future EU, Hungarian, Polish |
October 24, 2017
Guest post by Dr. Vira Ratsiborynska, Research Analyst at NATO Defense College. The views expressed are those of the author and do not represent the opinions of the NATO Defense College, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. National strategy requires us to analyze across all dimensions relations of power and observe the ways implemented… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
Some 5.3 million registered Kurdish voters headed to the polls on Monday 25th Sep. 2017 to decide in a referendum vote whether they want to become an independent nation-state. Three northern Iraqi provinces — Erbil, Duhok and Sulaymaniyah – comprise the parliamentary democracy governed by the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq. The referendum took place… » read more
Posted by AriRusila's Conflicts
September 15, 2017
By Sabrina Huck, Political Consultant The UK has the Queen’s speech – the European Union has the annual State of the Union address. Delivered by the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker’s performance might be lacking pomp and circumstance in comparison to the State Opening of Parliament, but it serves a similar purpose in… » read more
Posted by The Whitehouse Consultancy
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blogactiv, English, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Euro & Finance, Europe's East, Future EU, Global Europe, Member States, UK in Europe |
Next month, in his State of the Union speech to the European Parliament, President Juncker should make a bold proposal for a reformed EU. And also propose three to five main new policy proposals. These will help shape the agenda for – at least – Italian elections, facilitating a pro-EU win. Pse play Alain Souchon’s… » read more
Posted by TAXI: Europa
August 16, 2017
One can only welcome the ambition stated in the EU global strategy: “European security hinges on better and shared assessments of internal and external threats and challenges. Europeans must improve the monitoring and control of flows which have security implications.” It is indeed extremely important to try to bring order into European strategic thinking… » read more
Posted by Europe and Security
December 16, 2016
A new Bankwatch study reveals a worrying track record of criminal and corrupt activities among the companies that are building Europe’s flagship gas pipeline project, the Southern Gas Corridor. by Sven Haertig-Tokarz, cross-posted from the Bankwatch blog. The Southern Gas Corridor, a 3,500 kilometre system of pipelines meant to bring gas from Azerbaijan into Europe,… » read more
Posted by Bankwatch
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Corporate Europe, Energy, Energy Union, Europe's East, fossil fuels |
December 12, 2016
With the recent arrest of the Russian economy minister Aleksey Ulyukaev by the FSB, the Russian equivalent of the FBI, the president Vladimir Putin’s purge of the liberal faction within the Kremlin nomenklatura is now in the full public view.[1] This faction is headed by the Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev who succeeded Putin as… » read more
Posted by Kovacevic on Geopolitics
November 14, 2016
Just a few months after he was enthroned as the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in February 2009, Kirill I travelled to Istanbul to meet with Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the Ecumenical Patriarch, historically the “first among equals” in the Orthodox Church hierarchy. A mere six years older than Kirill, Bartholomew has held this… » read more
Posted by Kovacevic on Geopolitics
October 25, 2016
It is hardly a secret that the most vocal advocates of NATO expansion into East-Central Europe were the U.S. weapons manufacturers and their lobbyists. For instance, one of the founders of the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO, a non-profit advocacy organization, was Bruce Jackson, a vice president at Lockheed Martin and a former U.S. Army… » read more
Posted by Kovacevic on Geopolitics
September 21, 2016
From the very first days of the Obama administration, the vice president Joe Biden has taken over running the U.S. foreign policy agenda for the former Communist bloc in Europe. This self-appointed mandate applied not only to the ex-Soviet states, the best known cases being Ukraine and Georgia, but also to the states of ex-Yugoslavia… » read more
Posted by Kovacevic on Geopolitics
September 16, 2016
There are rising problems in the Western Balkans. Serbia’s role in fostering region stability is growing as tensions increase in the traditionally problematic Balkan triangle of Croatia-Serbia-Bosnia. Serbia’s balancing act between Washington and the European Union on one side and Russia on the other has gained visibility since late 2014. Russia lost ground when the… » read more
Posted by Global Perspectives - Antonia Colibasanu
