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Europe is failing in the fight against youth unemployment. While the German government's efforts remain largely symbolic, Southern European leaders pander to older voters by defending the status quo.
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An idiosyncratic chamber that has often been dismissed as a multilingual talking shop is rapidly assuming greater influence that is giving it a growing role in Europe and beyond.
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A fully fledged federal Europe will soon become reality for all EU countries whether inside or outside the euro, says Barroso.
With what will likely be the automatic appointment of the next European Commission President, the result of May 2014 European elections should endow the Brussels executive with greater legitimacy. But is this desirable, wonders a Swedish columnist.
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Italy's new Prime Minister has said he shares a "federalist vocation" with Germany and made a passionate plea for Europe to focus on growth.
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European External Action Service (EEAS) boss Catherine Ashton has failed. The EU has not spoken with a single voice on any key foreign affairs issue […]
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Victory by eurosceptic parties in Iceland's elections has put a question mark over its EU accession process.
Brendan Simms (univ of Cambridge) on The Guardian's website : "History suggests that the current crisis requires the immediate creation of an Anglo-American style fiscal and military union of the eurozone – a "democratic union". This would involve the creation of a European parliament with legislative powers; a one-off federalising of all state debt through the issue of union bonds to be backed by the entire tax revenue of the common currency zone (with a debt ceiling for member states thereafter); the supervised dissolution of insolvent private-sector financial institutions; and a single European army, with a monopoly on external force projection."
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EXCLUSIVE / The European Union will never receive enough public support for federalism and so should abandon the idea of a United States-inspired superstate, says the influential French Socialist former minister Hubert Védrine.
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Young people must be given a fair share of the budget of the European Union as they have the right to real investments, not just nice words. The proposed budgets for youth programmes are not enough, writes Peter Matjašič.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The political establishment has dismissed Germany's new anti-euro party as a fear-mongering populist aberration that could implode even before a looming federal election.But the first...
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Over 200 years ago, the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, predicted the rise of a great political body in Europe, akin to the present European Union. Using Kant’s ‘philosophical triangle’ Simon Gl...
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Europe's leaders have a veritable Rubik’s cube of political considerations to solve in 2014 in order to appoint a new EU leadership triumvirate, writes Hugo Brady, giving his take on who are the up-and-comers in a changing European balance of...
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Flemish artist Thomas Bellinck portrays “Life in the former European Union” (an exhibit instigated by the Royal Flemish Theatre), before it was destroyed
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Oud-voorzitter van de Europese Centrale Bank Jean-Claude Trichet denkt na over een economische en begrotingsfederatie die in uitzonderlijke ...
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Sometimes you really do need to smell the coffee. Arriving in Turin recently I made straight for the nearest bar and ordered a caffè macchiato. A charming woman served it up. I drank it standing at the counter.
Samenwerkende Europese politie-instanties hebben een netwerk van eurofielen opgerold. Er zijn arrestaties verricht in onder meer Brussel, Berlijn en Ljubljana. Ook in Nederland heeft de politie een aantal mensen van hun bed gelicht.
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In June 1900, the British commander of the international expeditionary force against the Chinese Boxers, Admiral Seymour, found himself in a bit of a fix.
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The EU is facing greater hostility from within than perhaps at any time since its incarnation. Writers from six leading newspapers in the six largest countries suggest six ideas to help redefine the union.
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A l'occasion d'un dialogue avec des think tanks européens, le président de la Commission européenne a présenté son diagnostic d'une Union européenne à l'image écornée par la crise économique.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France and Spain fell short of their budget deficit goals last year and debt levels swelled across the euro zone but the pressure may be easing on Paris and Madrid as the European...
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Flaws found last week in an academic treatise on the effect of high public debt on economic growth have heaped pressure on governments to relax austerity, above all in crisis-stricken Europe, long seen as an incubator for austerity-driven policies.
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Croatians voted yesterday (14 April) for 12 members of the European Parliament. The low turnout of 20.74% is explained by voters' perception that the election was
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According to new research undertaken by the Open Society Foundations there still is: Despite the different challenges facing European nations, the large majority of Europeans believe that standing ...
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Zelfs als nationale regeringen, zoals de Portugese, hun Europese best doen, krijgen ze van datzelfde Europa het deksel op de neus.
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