Current Affairs

Who is the PES candidate?

There are less than three months left to the European Parliamentary Elections in early June. Late last year, 74% of Europeans did not know the elections would be in 2009. What is this figure now that we approach of the elections? How many who know of the elections will vote? You could (...)

Tuesday 7 April 2009

A Choice for Europe?

The European institutions are fighting the low turnouts in the European Parliament elections with a common strategy and a single message throughout Europe: “It’s your choice”. The problem: A choice requires different alternatives. A single campaign requires a single discussion. Paradoxically, (...)

Friday 27 March 2009

Barroso: the candidate of all European parties

This is as confusing as it is absurd. In yesterday’s meeting the EPP leaders back Barroso for a second term as President of the European Commission but still no party is behind Barroso’s ambition to renew his mandate as president of the European Commission. One could expect that if the leaders (...)

Tuesday 24 March 2009

A Europe without visa

While trying to overcome many difficulties on the way to EU membership, the visa issue is another problem for the citizens of Turkey. Shall we one day have a ‘A Europe Without Visa’? The approaching betwen Turkey and the EU, which started in 1963, kept going with the characters of a customs (...)

Monday 16 March 2009

Europe: Give Your Ideas A Face!

The European Youth Forum, the Party-Political Youth Organisations and the Young European Federalists ask for a truly European debate during the EP Elections Campaign in order to allow the citizens to choose their candidates to key positions in the EU. As young Europeans, sharing a vision of (...)

Friday 13 March 2009

The Goddess of March

March 8 is the International Day of Women and is placed under the sign of the goddess of the month of March — Minerva. Minerva derives her name from the Latin mens (mind), and so she has a special relation to teachers and artists, especially players of a flute. Tradition has it that Minerva is (...)

Monday 9 March 2009

Employment in time of crisis – EU an Opportunity

We all have been made conscious in some way or another about the international crisis the vastest part of the world is going through and it seems this is not going to end fast. Thus we are all aware that this will bring about changes in the labour market. As an implication to this we can (...)

Saturday 28 February 2009

Finnish Government launches preparation of report on EU policy

The Finnish Government convened a seminar to discuss the vision for Finland’s EU policy on Monday, 2nd of February. The seminar was arranged to support the preparation of the Government report on EU policy currently being drafted. The report is the first Government strategy for EU since (...)

Friday 6 February 2009

Our Europe (Notre Europe) by Michel Rocard and Nicole Gnesotto

“Technically, Europe is not doing well. Everyone knows that.” It is with those words that Michel Rocard introduces this book in which, together with Nicole Gnesotto, gathers twenty contributions to depict the state of the European Union. Without waffle, the different writers tackle the European (...)

Monday 19 January 2009

The Lisbon Treaty: What Next?

Many are those who are questioning what is the future of the European Union, now that the Lisbon Treaty was condemned by an Irish ‘no’. However, is it a definite no? Is there going to be a second vote? What is the other member states’ perspective in this regards?

Wednesday 24 December 2008

Athens: Nightmare before Christmas

During the last days Athens has faced an unprecedented threat in its interior. A series of riots have broken out all over Greece having as an epicenter the Greek capital. The superficial reason for the elation of violence was the unjustifiable shooting of a 15 year old boy by a policeman in (...)

Sunday 21 December 2008

Blowback on open water?

In order to fight pirate activity in the Gulf of Aden the EU is about to launch “operation Atalanta” on December 8th, which provides the forces with a “robust mandate” to secure merchant and other vessels off the coast of Somalia. The ESDP mandate focuses on solving the piracy problem on the sea, (...)

Thursday 18 December 2008
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