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On the issue of a customs union, the spokesman said, the prime-minister is absolutely clear on the importance of having an independent trade policy in order to honour the result of the referendum. On the question to mention areas where compromise might be possible, the spokesman suggested there could be stronger guarantees on workers’ rights and environmental protections.

PM May will stick to her Brexit principles

By: N. Peter Kramer | Friday, January 18, 2019

Yesterday Theresa May’s spokesman said that the Prime Minister is determined to stick to her Brexit principles in the cross-party talks, including rejecting a customs union and a second referendum

Remarkable is, that so far there is no real sign of an economic slowdown in the US; and China’s statistics show imports from Europe are slowing but still growing. However, across the Eurozone we see a weakening in the rate of increase of consumer spending. This surely cannot be blamed upon the slowdown in China

Eurozone in economic bad weather

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Last week figures on the German industrial production in November 2018 were released

Generations of inadequate school history teachers, the BBC’s drama department, the royal family and the silly songs that British children are forced to sing, have all come together in creating Mrs. May’s Brexit mess. The Brexit disaster is only explicable by diving into that British culture that promotes the uniqueness and superiority of my fellow British citizens

Brexit: A Cultural Morphology

By: EBR | Thursday, January 10, 2019

How the deep forces of British history, from royalism and classism to nationalism and imperialism, combined to trigger the Brexit moment

With the chaos of Brexit ever-rising, disillusionment sets in in the UK. It dawns on enough people that maybe it was not so wise to go it alone. The May government unveils its secretly developed plan of founding an “alternative EU” (AEU). The British Prime Minister is in talks with Northern European countries and with Ireland on closer cooperation

Europe: Five Big Surprises for 2019

By: EBR | Thursday, January 3, 2019

Dealing in alternate realities is a tricky business. As is often noted, predictions are hard, especially about the future

The outcome of an election will affect the older population more directly because they are retired, or soon to do so, and are more reliant on public provisions like healthcare. Questions like ”Who gets to decide what age I get to retire at?” and ”Will I have a decent pension?” are very relevant and urgent questions for this cohort

Europe matters, but how do we tell young people that?

By: EBR | Thursday, December 27, 2018

The American mid-terms are just behind us. The elections were closely-watched as the results were supposed to indicate how US citizens feel about this tumultuous presidency and if Republicans would lose their majority in both of the House and the Senate

Encounters of European politicians that used to be rather technocratic and diplomatic in nature are being politicised. When the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz visited the German Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer, this was not diplomacy between Austria and Germany but two European politicians building a political alliance

The fight for liberal democracy can only be won on the offensive

By: EBR | Thursday, December 27, 2018

It has become common to take the growing power of populists in European countries as a sign of the European Union’s declining political viability

The EU’s political integration was previously driven by a strong Franco-German coalition. France and Germany together were the primary architects for the closer integration of monetary, foreign, security, justice and home affairs policies. However, as France grappled with its growing domestic economic and political problems during the last decade or so, the EU was forced to fly increasingly on its German ‘engine’ alone

The Growing Danger of EU Disintegration

By: EBR | Thursday, December 27, 2018

The European Union has been rocked by almost ten years of potentially crippling crises involving sovereign debt in the eurozone, the mass migration of refugees, Russian military intervention in Ukraine and Brexit

No wonder the commission wanted to complete negotiations for the EU’s next budget for 2021-2027 before the European Parliament elections in May. It knew full well how Brexit and the new composition of the parliament would complicate these discussions. But it failed to make progress and has postponed the issue until next year

Europe After a No-Deal Brexit

By: EBR | Thursday, December 20, 2018

The disruption caused by Britain failing to agree an orderly exit from the European Union is immense—and dangerous for the bloc’s future stability

Ireland’s border could remain completely open; British jobs, investment, and prosperity would suffer far less than any other form of Brexit. The disadvantages are equally clear: like Norway, the UK would have to make continuing payments to the EU; the UK would be subject to EU rules and regulations without having any say in them; the UK would have to maintain freedom of movement for EU citizens—anathema to those pro-Brexit MPs and voters who want the UK to have the right to control immigration

Brexit: What Brexit?

By: EBR | Friday, December 14, 2018

Few want the UK to crash out of the EU without a deal. After a tumultuous week for Theresa May, the chances have risen that Brexit won’t happen at all

The political chaos in Britain may seem isolated from the EU. It isn’t. The fallout has diminished London’s once-important standing in Europe. Its geostrategic outlook and diplomatic skills once so highly regarded in Brussels and the other member states are no more. So much for taking back control

Britain, France, and the State of the EU

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Social cohesion in many European countries is fraying as the impact of globalization and all its attributes undermine governing

As for Merkel, she is needed in Germany and Europe. She may be no strategist. But despite the pressures of realpolitik, she has consistently held a moral compass—be it on Russia, immigration, finding compromises among the EU’s bickering leaders, or holding the center

Don’t Write Off Angela Merkel or AKK

By: EBR | Monday, December 10, 2018

Just because she quit as party leader doesn’t mean that the German Chancellor has to be a lame duck

In order to «make its voice heard in a globalized world, Europe needs to keep its destiny in its own hands, since the ages that we could implicitly depend ourselves to others have passed away», Merkel declared. Creating real European soldiers, besides NATO, «we will prove that a war will never break out again among Europe’s countries»

Merkel: Nationalism and egoism out of Europe

By: EBR | Thursday, November 15, 2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed Europe’s future with the members of European Parliament and the president of European commission Jean-Claude Juncker at the plenary session of European Parliament on Tuesday

Pappas, who is a close ally of the Greek premier, said the objective was to create a progressive alliance that will overcome the failed model of neo-liberalism, and push back the far-right, leading the EU towards a social and democratic model

Greek minister: Far-right rise in Europe needs a progressive federalism response

By: EBR | Friday, November 9, 2018

The election of Manfred Weber as the European People’s Party (EPP) Spitzenkandidat ahead of next May’s European elections confirms the right turn of the EPP, Nikos Pappas told EURACTIV.com on Thursday (8 November)

Europe: The psychological gap between East and West

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The rift between Western and Central Europe runs deep. It is the result of different definitions of what the EU is and what it should be

Italy: The new Greece?

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Is Italy’s crisis the new Greece? Is it just as bad? Or different? Could it take just as long to resolve it?

Never mind Europe's ageing, the EU should focus instead on the impoverished young

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The European Union has rightly been chided for failing to develop a strategy on ageing, but where it has really fallen down is on younger people

Merkel’s Way Out

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Angela Merkel’s decision to step aside as party leader and not run again as chancellor in 2021 may have surprising consequences

“New” Perspectives For Europe

By: EBR | Friday, October 26, 2018

I am invited to talk about New Perspectives on Europe, but new ones fail me, and the Trumpian decay afflicting even the core of Europe makes me seriously question my old perspectives

EU candidate Alex Stubb calls for net-zero carbon by 2045

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Should he be picked as the European People’s Party (EPP) lead candidate for the European Commission’s top job, Alexander Stubb vows to “work towards a carbon neutral Europe by 2045”

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras: A remarkably solid politician

By: EBR | Friday, October 19, 2018

Alexis Tsipras admired Hugo Chavez. Then he became Greece’s Prime Minister. Now, he’s Washington’s good friend

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Far-left and far-right gains throw French mainstream parties into a quandary

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

In many big towns and cities, Socialists and centre-right Republicans are tempted to make electoral pacts on their outside flanks to beat the opposition in next Sunday’s run off of the French mayoral elections.

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Russia’s Imperial Retreat Is Europe’s Strategic Opportunity

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The war in Ukraine is costing Russia its leverage overseas. Across the South Caucasus and Middle East, this presents an opportunity for Europe to pick up the pieces and claim its own sphere of influence.

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The regulation would make the bloc less attractive for American exporters, a senior USDA official said

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