Cyprus & the troika: off to a rocky start
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It may seem a moot point now that Cyprus’ financial system has, for all intents and purposes, collapsed in the wake of last month’s €10bn eurozone rescue that forced the island to impose capital controls on any large withdrawals from...
Sleepwalking to disaster
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Our correspondents explain why Europe's leaders should be concerned by the current absence of bad news...
Would an 'independent' UK get a better US trade deal than the EU?
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Could the UK sucessfully negotiate a trade deal with the US?Yesterday MEPs voted on a resolution to back defensive measures to exclude cultural and some agricultural products, such as genetically modified foods from a proposed free trade deal with th...
Protocol 15 to the ECHR Adopted
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Last week, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the new Protocol 15 to the European Convention of Human Rights. It will be be opened for signature at the end of June and will enter into force three months after all ECHR state p...
David Cameron’s Oily Evasions
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David Cameron attacked the E.U. for introducing a ban on restaurants serving olive oil in unlabelled containers that the U.K. had passively supported. The U.K. Prime Minister owes the British public a proper explanation.
Good news: Commission bottles it on olive oil ban
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As early as the twenty-fourth century B.C., the Romans introduced elaborate measures to counter-act fraudulent practices in the olive oil trade. Many amphora fragments bear stamped inscriptions or handwritten notes that record information s...
The French protect their language like the British protect their currency | Andrew Gallix
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A row over using English in universities has blown up in France, where language is at the heart of the national identityThe front page of Libération, one of France's leading dailies, was printed entirely in English on Tuesday. "Let's do it," r...
Will Slovenia be next week’s Brussels target?
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Bratusek: "Slovenia can on its own without any supervision resolve its problems.” Amid all the talk that Spain, France and the Netherlands will get waivers next week on tough EU budget rules, allowing them to breach yet again Brussels-mandated...
Leaving the EU will not only fail to secure what Eurosceptics desire but would likely make the UK’s position worse
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Seamus Nevin argues that the UK would still be strongly influenced by the EU even if it were to leave, contrary to what many Eurosceptics imagine. Moreover, it would find itself with much less power on the outside, which is import...
"If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher" - The Commission utterly fails to address participants' concerns over FTT
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There's an old Latin saying, "If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher." Reading the Commission's defence of its proposed EU financial transaction tax (FTT), that phrase immediately sprung to mind. It's not the strongest piece, to...
Eurosphere roundup: “Stockholm riots spread around city…
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Stockholm riots spread around city A fourth night of unprecedented riots in Stockholm sees unrest spread around the city, with a restaurant and up to 40 cars burnt. Wait, there are riots in Sweden? You’ve read the stories about Sweden’s e...
Greek Singers Learn Alcohol Isn’t Free
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A team of acclaimed Greek musicians is grousing that neither alcohol, nor food, is free in Sweden.
Cameron’s Petard
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After an eventful few weeks in the life of David Cameron’s EU policy, some of the heat has gone out of matters, albeit only in the sense that the heat shifted to the question of gay marriages. Interesting then, how much more willing Cameron has...
"Unpacking The 2013 Human Development Index" by Tony Payne
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The UNDP claims ‘the Rise of the South’ is having a significant impact on economic growth and societal change. In a notable challenge to the gloom of recession in the West and all the continuing and, indeed scarcely unjustified, talk of c...
