The new elected government of Iceland announced that they put the negotiations with the European Union on hold. There was a press conference yesterday in Brussels with Commissioner Füle responsible for EU enlargement and the new Foreign Minister of Iceland, Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson. It goes without saying that any European …
Merkel pushing for austerity The European Union is still struggeling with the financial crisis and the debts of many Eurozone member states. The only answer given by the European leaders so far was austerity. In fact it was Germany under the conservative government of Angela Merkel pushing hard for reducing …
Europe – put it better, the European Union – was and still is one of the most successful stories in history on the European continent. It brought peace after centuries of slaugther and battle between the European nations. No one would seriously question this fact. You can argue whether the …
For decades politicians in Europe have done their European policy without paying much attention to what European citizens really want and how they want their European Union to be constructed. Surely we had times of crisis in Europe and slow progress in the integration process. This was always brought to …
Just two days to go before we celebrate the 63th birthday of the Schuman declaration back on May 09th 1950. And today we hear again prominent voices from the UK arguing in favour for the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Former chancellor Lawson again put forward …
The story begins with the misunderstanding that we have a “Euro” crisis in the EU27. We have a financial crisis. Countries are not able to refinance themselves due to many different reasons. This happens within the Eurozone – this is true. The Euro as a currency has certainly intensified certain negative economic …