Please, please stop calling it a “Grexit“. The word (a portmanteau of “Greek” and “exit”) has been doing the rounds recently, as the possibility of Greece rejecting the conditions of its EU/IMF emergency loans, defaulting on its debts and leaving the Single Currency …
Yesterday was Europe Day, marking the 1950 speech by French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman that launched the process of European integration. Symbolically, Europe Day also happens to fall just after (or, in most of the former Soviet Union, on the same day as) the anniversary of the …
Last year, we asked you whether you thought Europe could still afford the ‘European social model’ in the face of biting austerity cuts. With the election of François Hollande as French President and the kick-back against austerity in the recent Greek …
Yesterday, François Hollande was elected French President on an anti-austerity platform (making him only the second socialist president in the history of the Fifth Republic). The Greek mainstream political parties, meanwhile, received a battering in elections on Sunday to the Hellenic …
The upcoming Euro 2012 football championship, due to be held in Poland and Ukraine in June and July, has been causing political controversy recently. Relations between the EU and Ukraine have deteriorated since the Ukrainian opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yulia …
In January, Debating Europe asked whether you thought the EU was doing enough to support Pakistan in its continuing struggle against violent militancy in that country. This week, Debating Europe, along with our partner think-tank Friends of Europe, held an event …
This week the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, called for a “growth compact” to complement the earlier “fiscal compact” (a non-EU treaty signed, but not yet ratified, by all member-states – not including the UK and the Czech republic - which focuses on trying to control levels …
Last month, we asked you if you thought the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) was doing more harm than good. Are fish stocks best protected in a coordinated fashion through the EU, or is the red-tape and bureaucracy of the CFP precipitating an environmental …
It’s been another tough week for Spain. The southern European country, struggling with recession and an unemployment rate of 24 percent, has been inching closer to joining Greece, Ireland and Portugal in requesting an emergency EU / IMF loan. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano …
This Sunday, the first round of the French Presidential election will take place. The result, if frontrunner French Socialist candidate François Hollande wins (as widely predicted), could be a shift to the left for one of the most powerful countries in …
