Brexit grabs headlines but Asia-Europe ties also matter
By: EBR | Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Britain’s noisy, self-destructive withdrawal from the EU will dominate this week's agenda
German politics: It could have been worse
By: EBR | Tuesday, October 16, 2018
The centre-right CSU and the centre-left SPD lost the state election in Bavaria. This spells some trouble for Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU-SPD coalition in Berlin
Will Italy’s finances shake Europe?
By: EBR | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Five Star leader Di Maio still has not learned that comments which may go down well during an election campaign can easily backfire for a senior politician in office
We must ease the cost burden on Millennials of integrating migrants
By: EBR | Tuesday, October 9, 2018
What is Europe's toughest challenge? Youth unemployment? Populism and Euroscepticism? The future of the eurozone and perhaps of the EU itself? It's none of these, worrying though they are
The EU needs a global leader, not a Spitzenkandidat
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 25, 2018
In years past, when the EU's future leadership was under discussion, the search was at least aimed at finding someone who could win worldwide recognition and respect
“Cool” Germany, really?
By: EBR | Monday, September 24, 2018
The Economist’s recent feature on today’s Germany as a model for all of Europe was fake news. The signs of crisis – mainly a widespread complacency – are already visible in financial markets
Time for Europe to re-evaluate the Nuclear Ban Treaty
By: EBR | Monday, September 24, 2018
In 2017, 122 nations adopted a landmark treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons under international law
A fair European Copyright system fit for the digital age
By: EBR | Thursday, September 20, 2018
On 12 September 2018, European news media closely followed the European Parliament in Strasbourg
Halting the drift between Central and Western Europe
By: EBR | Thursday, September 20, 2018
Two constituencies in Central Europe are essential to countering authoritarian tendencies in the region—and preventing centrist voters from being pushed toward the anti-EU fringe
Oettinger names and shames member states on long-term EU budget cuts
By: EBR | Thursday, September 20, 2018
Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Finland…. The EU’s Budget Commissioner Gunter Oettinger did not hesitate to point the finger at countries reluctant to increase their contributions to the EU’s next seven-year budget during a speech on Wednesday (19 September)
EESC president: MFF proposal is ‘not ambitious enough’
By: EBR | Wednesday, September 19, 2018
The European Economic and Social Committee will discuss on Wednesday the next multi-annual financial framework (MFF) with budget commissioner Gunter Oettinger
Passion, reprimands and angry jibes: Europe's great, hot September
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Whisper it softly: there’s still a glimmer of hope for Europe, still a glimmer of hope in Europe. Long-dormant European liberals and democrats are waking up from their slumber
Ukraine’s incomplete transformation
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 18, 2018
The 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine are not about reform and ending corruption but about the influence of the oligarchs
Brexit deal: Really a replay of the Versailles diktat?
By: EBR | Friday, September 14, 2018
Timothy Garton Ash is wrong: Insisting that EU rules be followed on Brexit is neither an act of stubbornness nor a matter of vindictiveness. It is a matter of European statecraft
Energy poverty in the EU
By: EBR | Friday, September 14, 2018
It is estimated that more than 50 million households in the European Union are experiencing energy poverty. This can have far-reaching adverse consequences for people’s health and wellbeing
EPP unsure about retaining or expelling Orban’s party
By: EBR | Friday, September 14, 2018
The European Parliament’s vote to censure Hungary presents the assembly’s dominant centre-right bloc with a dilemma over whether to retain its populist Hungarian allies or expel them months before elections
Time to ask the Eurosceptics what they would suggest
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Never mind Brexit or Trump's re-election chances, 2019 is shaping to be the year Europe's populists shake the EU to its foundations. Giles Merritt calls for a Brussels-led counter-attack that invites critics to say how the EU and its institutions should be re-engineered for the 21st century
Papadimoulis: A broad pro-EU alliance can block the EPP right wing-far right entente
By: EBR | Monday, September 10, 2018
The increasing cooperation between the conservative right-wing and the far-right could be a wake-up-call for democrats, who should create a wide pro-EU alliance, from leftist Alexis Tsipras to centrist Emmanuel Macron, Syriza MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis told EURACTIV.com
Europe's internal divides are more dangerous than damage done by Trump
By: EBR | Friday, September 7, 2018
Be prepared for even tougher times. Europe faces a long list of challenges as it prepares for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU club, elections to the European Parliament and the installation of a new European Commission
Macron takes election dig at Merkel and EPP over Hungary
By: EBR | Friday, September 7, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron took a rare public dig at German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday (6 September) by questioning her party’s ties with Hungary’s right-wing leader as the EU prepares for an election next year
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