As queer as a jobless recovery
Ireland is in “recovery”. Such is the sage counsel of NCB, “one of Ireland's largest independent securities firms” and “a leading provider of institutional equities, wealth management and corporate...
View ArticleEU couldn't keep peace in a Buddhist monastery
In the wake of the EU’s reaction to the events in Egypt, I can’t help thinking again of President Van Rompuy’s recent Warsaw speech. “Europe is the best guarantee for peace. It was and is a work of...
View ArticleThis is the most important election in Irish history - and I'm Santa
Jason Walsh explains why he won't be voting in tomorrow's Irish general election. Tomorrow men and women across Ireland will dutifully trudge to the polling booth – and resist the urge to poke...
View ArticleMarriage of convenience on the rocks
Concerning relations with the EU, the Swiss government "does not know what it wants," writes Geneva daily Le Temps, quoting parliamentarian Maximilian Reimann. EU membership is rejected by a majority...
View ArticleIreland for sale
It seems a rich, if not bitter, irony that on the feast of Saint Patrick, the day Ireland pats itself on the back, that its new government should announce a plan to sell off its state assets, the...
View ArticleForget me not
The European Union is forging ahead with its plans to create a "right to be forgotten online". The only problem is, no such right exists – nor should we conspire to invent one. The problem seems to be...
View ArticleBin Laden's demise occurred long before his death
The news that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was killed last night by US forces has been widely welcomed, including by EU politicians, as a hammer blow to terrorism and a victory for democracy....
View ArticleWhy we don't love EU anymore
The EU's continued failure to connect with European citizens is not inevitable, it's just very likely. Reports that the European Union is set to take a seat at the UN's big table must come as something...
View ArticleA right royal mess
Monarchies are back? Let's hope not – we need politics fit for adults, not fairy tales fit only for children. So Britain has had a royal wedding. Is that any reason to inflict the aristocracy on the...
View ArticleAntonio Tajani: "Citizens of Europe need responses that the member states...
Antonio Tajani is Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship. Presseurop met up with him at the International Festival of Journalism in Perugia (Italy)...
View ArticleThe elusive European public
The Schengen Agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement is at risk of being watered down. Any such move would be a lot more controversial if the EU ever found its constituency. From my perch here in...
View ArticleMario Monti - "States must take responsibility"
Twice appointed as a European commissioner, initially for the internal market and later for competition, Mario Monti is one of the main specialists — and defenders — of the European single market. In...
View Article"Culture is part of Europeans' life"
She's not the most high-profile figure in Brussels, but there is a EU Commissioner dedicated to Education, Culture and, yes, that EU speciality: Multilingualism. Presseurop met the Cypriot Androulla...
View ArticleIryna Vidanava - the regime is trying to restrict us even more
Founder and Editor in chief of 34 Multimedia Magazine, one of the main independent media in Belarus, Iryna Vidanava teaches at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, which “hosts” many...
View ArticleLászló Rajk - Fidesz aims to hold onto power
Now associate professor at the University of Theater and Film in Budapest where he teaches film, architect and designer László Rajk was one of the main dissidents under the Hungarian Communist regime...
View ArticlePaolo Rumiz: "The heart of Europe beats in the East"
For the author of Aux frontières de l’Europe (“At the Frontiers of Europe”) only in few former communist countries and along the external border of the EU can one still encounter the soul of the Old...
View ArticleJean Ziegler: Brussels is unspeakably hypocritical
Vice-president of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, Jean Ziegler has just published Destruction massive. Géopolitique de la faim (“Mass Destruction: the Geopolitics of Hunger” published...
View ArticleEuropean press reaction: Papandreou's referendum and the euro crisis
This article was commissioned by the Guardian for Comment is Free, November 2nd. Scanning the headlines of today's European press, optimism isn't a word that comes to mind. "Madness", "chaos", "fear",...
View ArticleEuropean press reaction: Papandreou's referendum and the euro crisis
This article was commissioned by the Guardian for Comment is Free, November 2nd. Scanning the headlines of today's European press, optimism isn't a word that comes to mind. "Madness", "chaos", "fear",...
View ArticleAll eyes on Europe
At least the eurocrisis means – for once – the EU isn’t dull. Let’s make the most of this opportunity to start taking it seriously. Having reported on the EU for quite a few years it is with some...
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