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The EU’s management machines no longer represent the reality of Europe’s increasingly vibrant, diverse, multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-racial societies.

As we gear up for 2019, Europe needs more talent and some colour

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 22, 2018

As the jostling for jobs and nominations gathers momentum ahead of next year’s change of guard at the European Union institutions, it’s time to start walking the talk on building a truly diverse and inclusive Europe

“The vote was one of anger, for some fear, for others hope, but above all, it showed that these feelings were no longer contained by traditional politics,” says Marco Damiliano, director of the weekly L’Espresso.

How did EU-founding member Italy go Eurosceptic?

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 22, 2018

All eyes are on Italy as the far-right League and rebellious Five Star Movement close in on power, ringing alarm bells in Brussels as the country inches towards becoming the first EU founding member to have a Eurosceptic government

Both leaders seemed cautiously optimistic about the progress of the negotiation on the issue that has effectively blocked Skopje’s efforts to join NATO and the EU.

EU socialists urges Tsipras and Zaev to show ‘leadership’ to curb nationalism

By: EBR | Thursday, May 17, 2018

The President of the Party of European Socialists (PES), Sergei Stanishev, praised on Wednesday (16 May) the efforts by Athens and Skopje to resolve the long-standing name dispute and urged them to show “leadership” against nationalistic trends

Having become finance minister in Athens in late January 2015 for a coalition of ultra-left Syriza and right-wing Anel, Mr. Varoufakis turned against Greece’s official creditors and eventually worked semi-secretly on a plan to leave the euro.

Italy and the Yanis Varoufakis effect

By: EBR | Thursday, May 17, 2018

Populists in power, like Five Stars and the Lega in Italy, can do serious damage. In the case of Italy, the key risks are long-term rather than immediate

According to the WEF, the main objective is to bring together regional heads of government and heads of international and local businesses in order to drive forward economic integration and transformation focusing on three key areas: deepening trade links, engaging a new generation of leaders and developing a digital ecosystem to enable the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

World Economic Forum: Western Balkans’ assets can help it control its destiny

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 16, 2018

The Western Balkans’ very strategic location and entrepreneurial labour force are some of the assets that could help the region take advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and take its destiny in its own hands, Martina Larkin of the World Economic Forum told EURACTIV.com in an interview

European leaders’ biggest fear is that the Trump administration has torn up the rule book. They now face a choice: continue muddling through—as they have repeatedly done, with mixed results during recent crises—or recognize that Trump’s policies should push Europe toward deeper political and economic integration. That path will require a strategic outlook that is sorely lacking in order to build a serious foreign, security, and defense policy. After decades of talking about one, little in substance has been achieved.

Waiting For Europe, waiting For Merkel

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Europe can abandon its ambitions as a global player until Germany breaks out of its comfort zone. US. President Donald Trump’s decisions to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and move the American embassy to Jerusalem has shaken his European allies

Europe’s Big Three “M”s Weaken the EU

By: EBR | Thursday, May 10, 2018

The EU’s most important leaders are hobbled by domestic crises, leaving the bloc almost rudderless to deal with major foreign and security policy issues

EU elections in the era of fake news

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 9, 2018

‘Fake news’: it has existed for centuries but is exacerbated by 21st Century technologies

So on this ‘Europe Day’, here’s a short and incomplete list of the “other heroes” who need to be involved in crafting a more powerful European narrative

On this “Europe Day” let’s look for the hero inside ourselves

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 8, 2018

The search is on. We’re all on a quest to find a European hero ‒ a man or woman who will re-energise Europe, give us a sense of purpose and direction. Someone to make Europeans feel confident and proud again

Scholz declined to comment on reports that he would be finance minister, saying only that the SPD would appoint three men and three women to the federal cabinet. As part of the price for its support, the SPD will take the helm at key ministries, including the finance ministry.

Social Democrats sign up to new Merkel-led German government

By: EBR | Thursday, May 3, 2018

Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) decisively backed another coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on Sunday (4 March), clearing the way for a new government in Europe’s largest economy after months of political uncertainty

Although it represents only around 1% of the EU economy, the EU’s next long-term budget will have a big role to play in ensuring the EU hits its 2030 climate and energy targets and is in good shape to achieve net carbon neutrality by 2050.

Five steps for a climate-friendly EU Budget

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 2, 2018

The EU’s next Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF) must reflect the commitment the EU has made to decarbonise its economy, in line with the aims of the Paris Agreement. Strong overall coherence to ensure that funds are spent in targeted and intelligent ways is the key to its success

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

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 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

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EU Actually

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

By: 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.

Europe

Russia’s Imperial Retreat Is Europe’s Strategic Opportunity

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.

Business

EU risks losing US soy imports under deforestation rules, Washington warns

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