Gift of giving at Xmas? Not unless EU tweaks rules
Cross-border money flows have boomed this century – unless you want to give it away (Photo: snorski) This season of gifts is a time to reflect on the joy of…
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Covid has exposed decades of poor EU decisions
The effects of the bad management of the Covid-19 crisis are clear: high unemployment, unaffordable prices, low wages, and the extensive 'précarisation�
Sunday’s election in Hong Kong – what EU can do
Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in 20
Gas and nuclear: a lose-lose scenario for Eastern Europe
Several inherent risks of nuclear energy, from the disaster potential, to waste management over hundreds of thousands of years, or uranium mining, were not properly addressed in the report commissioned…
Bosnia & Herzegovina – where is EU leadership in this drama?
Bosnia and Herzegovina is an extremely fascinating, but complex country and difficult to govern. Only reason and dialogue can avert further humanitarian tragedy in the region (Photo: World Bank Photo…
The EU Eastern Partnership summit – a rethink needed
'The internal problems of the EaP countries and external threats posed to them by Russia will, if unchecked, lead to backsliding – if not worse�
A war on immigration in Europe?
Migrants on Polish border (Photo: Telegram) To paraphrase a famous text, a spectre haunts Europe: the fear of migration. A fear fuelled by multiple centres of persuasion and power, including…
Where Germany’s Greens and FDP will collide on environment
Annalena Baerbock. While the Greens aim to protect the environment from polluting industries, the FDP is essentially hoping to liberate these industries from stringent regulations (Photo: Flickr/Dirk Vorderstraße) New German…
‘Agriculture as sovereignty’ under the French EU presidency
Emmanuel Macron at the Berlaymont HQ. France's agriculture minister has already argued that the EU should 'export its standards, and stop having foreign standards imposed on its own single market�
Could north Cyprus unilaterally join euro to escape Turkey’s lira?
The militarised 'Green Line' demarcating Turkish-recognised North Cyprus from Cyprus – it currently also divides the island between the Turkish lira and the euro (Photo: Marco Fieber) The Northern part…