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July 22, 2019

The new President of EU Comission is German and female. The behind-the-scenes coup by President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel to unblock the EU’s seat-sharing negotiations has been masterful: The election of Ursula von der Leyen as the new Commission President is historic.

June 2, 2019

Since the results of the EU parliamentary elections were announced on Sunday night, the discussion about what they mean in terms of Brexit has been hotly contested. One third of votes were cast for parties that support no deal, but there are a couple of reasons why we should be cautious about reading too much […]

June 1, 2019

The paramount question at this stage is not what the United States will do in the nuclear domain but how it will act on Irans regional violations of the spirit of the agreement. The 13 October statement describes Irans steady expansion of proxy forces and terrorist networks … in hopes of dominating the greater Middle […]

May 27, 2019

The total 751 members of Parliament represent the 500 million citizens of the European Union, although that number will be reduced to 705 once the UK exits the EU. While it is a known fact that Britains exit destabilizes the Union, many of its Eurosceptic representatives will no longer have a voice in Parliament — […]

May 26, 2019

According to Ioan Bucuras, the former Secretary General of the Young European Federalists, currently a Member of the Presidium and a Senior EU Affairs Manager at the media network for Europe – EURACTIV, we have witnessed the most colourful and content-driven EU elections campaign in Romania since it joined the bloc in 2007. The civil […]

May 25, 2019

In Ivaylo Ditchevs opinion, professor of cultural anthropology at Sofia University, as the globalized world becomes more complex, the tyranny of specialized knowledge becomes ever harder to support. Take the European Union. Few Europeans are able to figure out the subtle ways of its machinery, the interplay of the national and the political, of lobbying […]

May 20, 2019

Deepening integration of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has become a cornerstone of the debate regarding the future of the European project. Launched in 1992, the EMU refers to the policies that are put in place — at an economic and fiscal level — to drive convergence of EU Member States in three stages, […]

April 25, 2019

This is one of the lessons that Western policymakers can learn from Poroshenko’s crushing defeat. According to Nicolai N. Petro, Professor of Peace Studies and Nonviolence at the University of Rhode Island, Petro Poroshenko lost the Ukrainian presidential elections by a larger margin than any candidate in the history of Ukraine. He won in only […]

April 20, 2019

Europe also has ambitious goals to reduce its carbon footprint, in a bid to address global climate change, starting with cutting greenhouse emissions 20 per cent by 2020, 40 per cent by 2030, and going fully carbon neutral by 2050. These goals require a massive integration of renewable energy, along with a reduction of energy […]

April 1, 2019

The euro is the form of money for the 19 member countries of the eurozone. It’s the second most widely used currency in forex trading after the U.S. dollar. It’s also the second most widely held foreign exchange reserve used by central banks. As of the third quarter 2018, foreign governments held $2.2 trillion compared […]