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The National Front leader is hoping to bounce back from her defeat in last year’s presidential vote in the May 2018 elections to the European Parliament.

Le Pen seeks to rally far-right allies for European elections

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 2, 2018

France’s Marine Le Pen led a rally of Europe’s far-right in the southern French city of Nice on Tuesday (1 May), to celebrate recent gains on the continent and devise a battle plan for next year’s European elections

The British still have no realistic plan of how to proceed in their future relations with Europe. They do have a long wish list. The British side also still pins high hopes, in the same way as the Chinese do, on winning individual EU member nations for their cause and thus splitting the EU 27.

Britain’s Confused Soul in the Age of Brexit

By: EBR | Friday, April 27, 2018

Britain appears to be abandoning core virtues – its ability to be ruthlessly wedded to a realistic pragmatism and its relentless pursuit of its own commercial advantage

The European Parliament’s new resolution on debt sustainability in developing countries squarely addresses this obduracy, challenging EU states to pick up the 2015 discussions and forge a path towards a set of multilateral rules to manage debt restructuring in a timely, fair, and sustainable manner.

European Parliament sounds the alarm over developing world debt crisis

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 25, 2018

The number of poor countries facing major debt crises has doubled since 2013, and only 1 in 5 are now considered to be at low risk of crisis. With some countries in the midst of crisis and others on the brink, meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains a pipe dream

National contributions could rise to 1.3% of European GDP, especially if the member states agree to obtain new fiscal resources, not from citizens, but from those who have the capacity to pay them, such as polluting companies or digital sector multinationals.

What kind of budget do Europeans need?

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 25, 2018

The EU’s new multiannual budget must reflect its new ambitions. Europe must assert itself as a geopolitical entity, as a democratic power with not only an economic dimension but social and cultural as well, writes MEP Maria João Rodrigues

”I don’t want to belong to a generation of sleepwalkers,” said France’s President Emmanuel Macron in Strasbourg last week. Underlying his speech to the European Parliament was the message that the solutions to yesterday’s problems are no longer suited to those of tomorrow. It’s a theme that other policymakers and political leaders across Europe should be repeating over and over again.

The EU is at risk of death from myopia

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 24, 2018

If the European Union were to die, some might expect its death certificate to cite inertia. But myopia looks more likely. Short-sightedness risks becoming the European project's terminal sickness

Athens claimed the unqualified name of Macedonia, implied territorial claims on a region of the same name in Greece. The issue became so bitter that in 2008 that Greece—a member of both the EU and NATO— blocked Macedonia’s membership into NATO as well as the start of EU accession talks.

The EU’s next stop: the Western Balkans

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Finally, the European Union is focusing on its neglected back garden

The DIHK is coordinating the worldwide network of the German Chambers of Commerce (AHKs), Delegations and Representative Offices at 140 locations in 92 countries. The AHKs are representing the German economy abroad, promoting global business relationships through their extensive member network and are supporting companies from their host countries in entering the German market through their global service brand ”DEinternational”.

Eurochambres, the European sender for German economy’s concern

By: EBR | Friday, April 13, 2018

This is the third article in the EBR series: 60 Years EUROCHAMBRES and the role of the national chambers of commerce

The dangerously unpredictable initiatives of the Trump Administration call for solid and unambiguous responses from the EU. Whether it’s Trump’s trade war with China or his threatened torpedoing of the Iran nuclear deal, the EU-27 will be forced to define its position vis-à-vis these major issues.

The bigger EU problems after Brexit

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Europe is watching the spectacle of Brexit with horrified fascination. "How is it," ask friends and colleagues in Brussels, "that a nation of pragmatists can tear itself apart over ideologies?"

The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber welcomes the ‘New Skills Agenda for Europe’ as a comprehensive and important policy effort in the field of education and training. The lack of basic skills, skills shortages and mismatches are among the main concerns of businesses and particularly SMEs throughout Europe. The need to up-skill the European workforce is urgent and requires comprehensive actions. Education and training systems need to respond better to labour market needs and deliver higher and more relevant skills.

The voice of Austrian business in Vienna, Brussels and beyond: Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ)

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 10, 2018

This is the second article in the EBR series: 60 Years EUROCHAMBRES and the role of the national chambers of commerce

Worse, people in six of those countries – Italy, the UK, Spain, Belgium, Greece and Finland – also earned less in 2017 than they did in 2016, according to ETUI’s report Benchmarking Working Europe 2018.

Where in Europe have wages fallen most?

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 10, 2018

While governments and central banks often talk about inflation, few citizens have a real understanding of how price increases and fluctuations in the value of money affect their daily lives.

Comprehensive European food policy necessary next step

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Is it time for a comprehensive and holistic European food policy? To put it simply, yes it is!

No more excuses: The EIB needs a responsible policy against tax abuses

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 3, 2018

The European Investment Bank is a public institution and supports projects in the name of EU policies. It is therefore high time for the EU bank to ask for more than what commercial banks do for the sake of justice and broader public interest

The European Commission, via its “Cooperation and Verification Mechanism”, has praised the high numbers of arrests, despite what HRWF says are “well-documented concerns about irregularities” involved in the clampdown. The CVM serves to assist Romania to make progress with the rule of law through judicial reform and combating corruption and the Commission’s recently-published progress report of 2017 singles out “overall praise” for the DNA. Commission Jean-Claude Juncker also recently said that Romania had made “remarkable progress” in the rule of law.

”Failings, not success” of Romania’s anti-corruption efforts

By: EBR | Thursday, March 29, 2018

A respected human rights group has questioned the European Union for using conviction statistics in Romania as “trophies in the fight against corruption.”

There is nothing unusual about ministers meeting informally while they are in the European capital for official meetings. Conservative and socialist ministers of finance regularly convene over breakfast before Economic and Financial Affairs Council, or Ecofin, meetings. The Eurogroup was an informal gathering itself for years, before it was granted a legal basis under the Lisbon Treaty in 2009. But there is a new dimension to these meetings in the margins: Brexit.

There is life for the EU after Brexit

By: EBR | Thursday, March 29, 2018

One evening in November 2017, finance ministers from the Baltic states, Nordic countries, and Ireland dined together in Brussels, their Dutch and German colleagues joining them for coffee

How Poland and Germany can close ranks

By: EBR | Monday, March 26, 2018

Instead of seeking war reparations from Germany, Poland should take steps that bring the country closer to the euro area to secure the country’s long-term economic interests

The French and German right-wing parties, the Greens, the Socialists, the far-right and the far-left in the European Parliament all lined up to criticise this coup de force, this coup d’état and the insult to Europe represented by this cavalier appointment.

Friction between France and Germany over En Marche’s European ambitions

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 20, 2018

In the run-up to a European Council on the revival of the European project, the increasingly direct political rivalry between En Marche and the CDU make the exchange between France and Germany difficult. EURACTIV.fr reports

A “one-size-fits-all-sectors” trade agreement is less straightforward as Mr Barnier suggested. In earlier trade agreements, the EU adopted provisions on financial services. The EU-Canada CETA deal has an investment chapter. A 2016 European Parliament Report explicitly lauded the CETA for being the first modern trade agreement to dedicate a special chapter to this subject.

A specific Brexit finance deal benefits the EU

By: EBR | Thursday, March 15, 2018

By not embracing the UK financial sector in a future trade deal, the EU might chase global capital markets away from Europe. The idea that Europe will win by keeping London at arm’s length is naïve at best, writes Georges Ugeux

India is one of the developing countries which has made greats strides to decarbonising its economy. Solar power has also grown by 200 percent in just two years, adding 8 gigawatts with much more in the pipeline. Overall, the Indian Government aims to triple the amount of renewable energy capacity over the next four years alone.

Macron pledges 700 million euros to fund solar projects worldwide

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 14, 2018

President Emmanuel Macron has said France will greatly increase the amount of funding it provides to solar power projects in developing countries by 2022

The disruptive effects of national elections on EU unity are generally seen as an unavoidable part of democracy in Europe; regrettable but inevitable. No one would dispute that, but do they have to be scattered across the political calendar? Is it so difficult to agree on the same five-year term for member states’ parliaments?

Why all Europe’s elections should be on the same day

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Here's a sharp knife to cut through the tangled knot of Europe's politics ‒ let's hold all national parliamentary elections on the same day as voting for the European Parliament

May’s idea of a Customs Partnership, to avoid a hard border in Ireland, seemed like a smuggler’s charter, however. She envisages that the UK would have different rates of tariffs on goods entering the UK to the tariffs charged on goods entering the EU. She then suggests that the UK would charge the UK tariff on goods “intended” for the UK, and a different EU tariff on goods passing through the UK but “intended” for an EU country, most likely Ireland.

Will Theresa May’s five tests for Brexit do more harm than good?

By: EBR | Monday, March 12, 2018

Watching Theresa May’s speech at the Mansion House on 2 March, one thing seemed clear: the United Kingdom is putting itself, as well as all the other European Union member states, to a lot of trouble, so that it can leave the EU and then simultaneously re-join the block in selected areas

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