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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

We are ready to welcome you, NATO chief tells Macedonia

By: EBR | Friday, September 7, 2018

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Macedonians on Thursday (6 September) to vote in a referendum to embrace a deal on its name with neighbouring Greece and join the defence alliance

8 reasons to care about the EU’s new data-protection rules

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 5, 2018

In recent weeks, you may have noticed pop-ups appearing in your browser or emails asking you to agree to a company’s new privacy policy or terms of service

Germany finally fit for the Euro

By: EBR | Thursday, August 30, 2018

German fiscal bliss: Debt to GDP ratio can fall to 60% this year

EU Commission encourages border ‘corrections’ to settle Kosovo-Serbia relations

By: EBR | Monday, August 27, 2018

Brussels should accept an agreement between Serbs and ethnic Albanians to settle their long-standing dispute over Kosovo, a top EU official said on Sunday (26 August), seeking to dispel fears that any redrawing of Balkan borders might reignite feuds in the volatile region

High time for Europe to wake up

By: EBR | Monday, August 27, 2018

Why it is in Germany’s own self-interest to take Donald Trump’s policy impulses on trade and defense seriously

Avramopoulos in Spain to announce further EU support to tackle migration

By: EBR | Monday, August 6, 2018

As Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos headed to Madrid, the European Commission announced Friday (3 August) a further €3 million in emergency aid to support Spanish border guards in curbing irregular migration

Hahn on Western Balkans: Exporting stability instead of importing instability

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 31, 2018

The Commission is satisfied with its Western Balkans strategy, as it has triggered a new dynamic in the region. In an interview with EURACTIV Germany, Commissioner for Enlargement, Johannes Hahn, however, pleads for realism

Energy, EU reform on the agenda as Macron heads to Spain and Portugal

By: EBR | Thursday, July 26, 2018

France’s Emmanuel Macron makes his first visit as president to Spain and Portugal, starting Thursday (26 July), in his push to overhaul the EU, with the two southern allies seeking French help to connect their energy grids to Europe

The EU has lost the liberal plot

By: EBR | Thursday, July 26, 2018

The ‘liberal international order’ has become one of those terms that is used reflexively

Four Brexit scenarios

By: EBR | Tuesday, July 24, 2018

An eleventh-hour deal on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU might be hammered out by the end of the year. But the risks are rising that it won’t

Less Europe?

By: EBR | Monday, July 23, 2018

The EU does not always need more members and deeper integration. Less could be more in the end