Governments – particularly in the United States and the European Union – must start showing the intestinal fortitude to stand up against the banks.
Primary elections to elect the new leaders of the European Greens will take place tomorrow. What makes this hustings particularly special?
In the teeth of oppostion from the British government, the EU has agreed regulations to curb gambling on food prices.
‘If representative democracy is only to choose every four, or five, or six years the person who’s going to do everything they want without taking popular will into account... we are in a sort of trap and I think that’s certainly the case today for Europe and elsewhere.’
Most undocumented migrants in Europe are not products of irregular entry and humanitarian crises such as that at Lampedusa are not unavoidable tragedies. As the EU starts work on a new programme on migration it must shift approach from control and surveillance.
The much needed debate on Europe is unlikely to happen in the German run-up to the European elections. But instead, a controversy pro or against the Euro might well take place, should the new right-wing Alternative for Germany prove effective. Euro elections landscape, 2014.
European elections have never really been about Europe. Case in point: France, where the electoral campaign reeks of popular resentment, personal ambitions and widespread misconceptions. Euro elections landscape, 2014.
Euroscepticism seems to be a constant in the Czech political landscape. How will this reluctance toward the EU affect the upcoming European elections? Euro elections landscape, 2014.
In the absence of a strong and concerted political direction, the EU is undergoing a process of structural divergence, featuring diverging employment, growth, productivity, competition, and fiscal trajectories. This is not a recovery, but a joyless and jobless stagnation. Ignore it at your peril.
Forget better communication or a radical change in its course of action: what the EU really needs is a big, bold idea to move forward.
Can the EU still be rescued following its disastrous failure to tackle the economic crisis?
The editors of our Can Europe make it? debate pick some favourite articles from 2013, and wish you all the best for the new year.
