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September 7, 2015
The world is in a state of rapid change. It is not a sense of irony to say this has always been the case for the lifetimes of much of everyone living today. Constant upheaval may be the recipe for European modernity, and our societies are based in the act of replacing old with new.… » read more
Posted by C Shannon
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blogactiv, Future EU, Global Europe, Innovation & Enterprise |
The world is in a state of rapid change. It is not a sense of irony to say this has always been the case for the lifetimes of much of everyone living today. Constant upheaval may be the recipe for European modernity, and our societies are based in the act of replacing old with new.… » read more
September 1, 2015
Faced with the brunt of asylum applications made in Europe this year and increasingly violent far-right reactions to newcomers, Germany has called for front-line migrant registration centres in Italy and Greece and a more even distribution of refugees across the EU. Such demands are understandable, but fail to consider the needs, motivations and tactics of… » read more
Few economic phenomena attract as much attention in Poland as fuel prices. This is not surprising, considering that an average household owns at least one passenger car, and the share of fuels in total consumer spending has long surpassed 5%, which is more or less the same we spend on healthcare, appliances and running our… » read more
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Energy, Euro & Finance, Future EU, Global Europe, Trade & Industry, Transport |
August 30, 2015
The Middle East has become a horrible burning ground, but the European Union remains fixated on the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis, and an imagined “Middle East Peace Process” (MEPP). In European foreign ministries, the mythologies of the 1970s remain unchallenged, perhaps because dealing with the real threats to Europe from… » read more
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Future EU, Global Europe, Jerusalem, John Gatt-Rutter, MEPP , Israel |
August 23, 2015
Der Cannabis, auch bekannt als Marihuana, wurde nicht erst in den 1960ern erfunden. Er existiert bereits seit wenigstens 10.000 Jahren. Er war genauso verbreitet wie heute. Und die meiste Zeit war er sogar legal. Cannabis war zuletzt lange Zeit gesetzlich verboten, und nun scheint es eine weltweite Kampagne zu geben, um ihn wieder zu legalisieren.… » read more
August 13, 2015
Un an après que Michael Brown, le jeune de 18 ans non armé, ait été abattu par un officier de police à Ferguson, Missouri, la ville est à nouveau dans la tourmente. Beaucoup de choses se sont passées depuis l’homicide de Brown l’année dernière. Aujourd’hui, l’Amérique n’est plus ce qu’elle était l’an passé. La mort… » read more
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EurActiv.fr, European Youth, French, Future EU, Global Europe, Sustainable Dev. |
July 31, 2015
If one thing the critics and the advocates of the EU can agree on is that more integration is needed, if the EU is going to survive. That seems like a sign of poor tidings for keeping Britain in the EU. So, let’s run with a hypothetical. Hypothetically, let’s say that Hollande’s proposals go forward… » read more
Posted by C Shannon
If one thing the critics and the advocates of the EU can agree on is that more integration is needed, if the EU is going to survive. That seems like a sign of poor tidings for keeping Britain in the EU. So, let’s run with a hypothetical. Hypothetically, let’s say that Hollande’s proposals go forward… » read more
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Brexit, Commonwealth, Future EU, Global Europe, NAFTA, transatlanticism |
July 27, 2015
The most interesting thing to come out of an interesting month was President Hollande’s 19th of July letter published in the Journal du Dimanche. It called for a “vanguard” of European states, comprising of (at least) the founders of the ECSC, to form a government to manage the Eurozone. This new formation, according to… » read more
Posted by C Shannon
July 24, 2015
The most interesting thing to come out of an interesting month was President Hollande’s 19th of July letter published in the Journal du Dimanche. It called for a “vanguard” of European states, comprising of (at least) the founders of the ECSC, to form a government to manage the Eurozone. This new formation, according to… » read more
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European Federation, Eurozone Union, Fiscal Union, Future EU, Global Europe, Hollande |
July 17, 2015
In the aftermath of the bailout terms, one hysteria left and another came. People hailed the termed bailout as the beginning of the end for the European project, just as they hailed the avoided Grexit as another end of the European project. Suddenly, it’s December of 2012 and everyone is talking about the immanent dissolution… » read more
Posted by C Shannon
July 16, 2015
In the aftermath of the bailout terms, one hysteria left and another came. People hailed the termed bailout as the beginning of the end for the European project, just as they hailed the avoided Grexit as another end of the European project. Suddenly, it’s December of 2012 and everyone is talking about the immanent dissolution… » read more
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Benjamin Disraeli, EU Citizens and Media, Future EU, grexit, Member States |
By Marc de Werd, judge in the Amsterdam Court of Appeal and professor of European Justice (Maastricht University) Back to the drawing board Much has already been written in the blogospere about the CJEU’s Opinion 2/13 on the draft accession agreement on the accession of the European Union to the European Convention for the… » read more
As it happened, I was unable to attend the lecture by Prof. Finn E. Kydland and Prof. Edward C. Prescott, entitled ‘The Poor Economic Performances in the EU and the US: Problems are Political, not Economic’, which took place on June 24th in Warsaw. I was in Sopot at that time, presenting the energy and… » read more
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Development Policy, EU Citizens and Media, EU Priorities 2020, Future EU, Global Europe, Regional Policy, Trade & Industry |
