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Behind closed doors, over diplomatic dinners, in the corridors of departments, embassies, ministries and chanceries, Europe’s rulers are playing a “once in a lifetime” game for the future of the European Union. As I have already noted, here and here, this is a power play to which the public is...
What Serbia's election says about the European Union's enlargementA BRITISH tabloid set a high standard for bombast when it once took credit for the re-election of a Tory government with the headline: ?It's The Sun Wot Won It?. This week European Union leaders were taking credit for another...
Christian Democrat Leader Göran Hägglund The elections to the European Parliament are over a year away, but the Swedish Christian Democrats are already drawing up their election platform. One of their priorities will be to campaign to reduce alcohol import quotas from the EU. At the moments...
Politicians standing for the EU elections next year will have more to gain from keeping their national party happy than campaigning on common European themes, says Sebastian Kurpas, a researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.
To mark Europe Day on 9 May, PES leaders Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and Zita Gurmai, issued a challenge for a more political debate on European Union policies and future direction. “Whether you are for or against Europe” said PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen “is yesterday’s debate. No one can...
