Quite in a favor

Quite in a favor Pan-European electoral list on the wishlist again     He is „quite in a favor” of a pan-European list for the European Parliament (EP) elections, said the European Commission’s President in his State of the Union speech. Given that he wanted...

Sailing Stormy Waters

Juncker proposes a one-president and no unanimity system   This year’s State of the Union speech from the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has certainly been the most long-anticipated and important speech of his term, as many analysts have noted....

The Norwegian Model

The Norwegian Model The Scandinavian country is at the same time a ray of hope and a crushing reality for the UK’s Brexit plans   As another round of Brexit negotiations goes by, both sides point at Norway as a model for Westminster to stay out of the EU....

Lost in the supermarket

How the dual food quality is dividing the EU?   Rarely can something in the EU provoke so much controversy than when a Member State feels it has been mistreated. And when there is a case of more than one state, especially several of them, the situation has to be...

Exceptional circumstance – but for whom?

Exceptional circumstance – but for whom? Old reflexes work again in Europe’s migration crisis management   While Italian authorities and charity workers are ringing the alarm bells for a dangerously approaching new wave of the migration crisis, Europe is still...

Battleship

BATTLESHIP Is the realpolitik of Macron harming European unity?   Three weeks, three hits by French president Emmanuel Macron to the Italian government. First the refusal to open the country’s port to the migrants saved out of the cost of Libya in order to ease...