Youth unemployment and forced emigration
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Unemployment is one of the major challenges in Europe today. In this context, in most of the Member States of the European Union, youth are more vulnerable to one of the serious consequences of the economic crisis, unemployment. In most cases, and in...
The Closer
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Round-up A day of No-QE capitulation selling? Silver fell 6.7 per cent and gold for June delivery fell 3.5 per cent, moving on receding prospects of stimulus from the Federal...
Hannam, spun
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Just when we were considering launching the Ian Hannam is Innocent OK? campaign, this crosses our radar…The former JP Morgan Cazenove banker has got himself all PR-ed up,...
Brandmauer von mindestens einer Billion Euro
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Die europäischen Finanzminister beglückwünschten sich am vergangenen Wochenende eifrig zur Schaffung einer robusten “Brandmauer”, die die Schuldenkrise an der Ausbreitung hindern, spekulative Angriffe auf den Anleihenmärkten abwehre...
Post-Lisbon Period: Who Pulls the Strings on the European Foreign Policy?
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The Treaty of Lisbon introduces two important elements into the institutional architecture of the European Union – the figure of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the European External Action Service that will assi...
German geo-economics and security challenges
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It is nothing new to see European defense spending trailing behind that of the United States, or lately, as I wrote in an earlier post, that of other emerging parts of the globe. Although many tend to emphasize the decades old transatlantic gap betwe...
Will Slovakia’s Robert Fico Be Another Viktor Orban?
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – What is going on in Central Europe? After Viktor Orban’s consolidation of power in Hungary, another political strongman has returned to the helm, this time in Slovakia. Former Prime Minister Robert Fico has once again a...
Save the Libraries
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Guest post from Pink Prosecco:- Two important libraries are under threat due to the problems currently faced by London Metropolitan University. Both the Women’s Library and the Trades Union Congress Library are currently under the custodial c...
Save the Libraries
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Guest post from Pink Prosecco:- Two important libraries are under threat due to the problems currently faced by London Metropolitan University. Both the Women’s Library and the Trades Union Congress Library are currently under the custodial c...
To raise awareness and take action in the field: key words in the European fight against drugs
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Europe implements the “Drug prevention and information” programme to combat the abuse of illegal substances. - 1. Analysis / Culture & Education, European Commission...
Development: Aid to developing countries falls because of global recession
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“Major donors’ aid to developing countries fell by nearly 3% in 2011, breaking a long trend of annual increases. Disregarding years of exceptional debt relief, this was the first drop since 1997.” New OECD report confirms that solidarity is bec...
Bulgaria: Light on a Mysterious Death
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The collaborative media outlet svobodnoslovo.com writes [bg] about a new book by Lyubomir Levchev [bg], who mentions Lyudmila Jivkova's death 30 years ago. It has always been reported that Jivkova, the daughter of Bulgaria's last communist di...
Europa como actor global
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Hasta hace poco, una de las preguntas más frecuentes que me dirigían tanto los estudiantes como los colegas universitarios de otros continentes se refería a la influencia de la Unión Europea en el mundo y su capacidad de definir sus propias estra...
Public Affairs and corp comms: making them work in tandem in a policy town
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Organisations, including agencies, often have separate public affairs and corporate communications functions in Brussels (not Fleishman-Hillard). It’s a tad peculiar, given that PA is a communications discipline, and that the comms piece is increas...
Nigâr Hacızade’s Storify piece: #12EylülYargılanıyor/September 12 on Trial
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[View the story "#12EylülYargılanıyor/September 12 on Trial" on Storify] Related posts: #HrantDink trial to end any minute now. Nigâr Hacızade’s Storify piece… Journalists on trial in Turkey / Gazeteciler yargılanıyor…...
Spotted elsewhere
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THIS week's edition of The Economist features a comprehensive account of the emerging political landscape in Russia. It is, finds our correspondent, energetic, increasingly localised, and deeply mistrustful.Our Athens correspondent reveals that Greek...
A Myanmar Spring?
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The party of dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy, won a decisive victory in by-elections on April 1, 2012. The party 40 of the 45 seats reported as of April 3rd, with the results of five more seats not yet in. The new...
A Serbian voting bonanza
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Serbians will vote for councils, parliament and president on May 6th...
A Serbian voting bonanza
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THIS morning Boris Tadic (pictured above), Serbia's president, ended months of speculation and announced that he would formally resign tomorrow. This brings the first round of a presidential election forward to May 6th, the same day as parliamentary...
A game of musical chairs
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As several top jobs change hands, Britain – and the EU – can show some clout By David Gow A new bout of musical chairs at the top of global and European institutions should provide evidence of the political clout of Britain – and the EU...
Italy's Reforms: Monti Fires The Starting Gun
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Italy's unelected government has entered one of the most delicate stages of its tenure. Mario Monti and Italian Welfare Minister Elsa Fornero (in the picture) have just presented their key proposals for reforming Italy's labour market.The full text o...
Why QE is being mis-sold
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Ah, the elusive liquidity trap. Does it exist? Is it here? And what does it mean for monetary policy?Those are critical questions which are not currently being addressed by policymakers,...
We agree that we may agree at some unspecified point in the future
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The EU has reached stalemate in its relations with Ukraine...
We agree that we may agree at some unspecified point in the future
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LAST week Brussels, the capital of European non-events, hosted another meeting between European Union and Ukrainian diplomats. On 30th March they initialled an "Association Agreement". That does not mean they signed it. Eh? In diplo-speak, to "initia...
A game of musical chairs
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Wednesday, 04 April 2012 As several top jobs change hands, Britain - and the EU - can show some clout A new bout of musical chairs at the top of global and European institutions should provide evidence of the p...
Battle of the Tablets hits the UK - Samsung seeks declaration of non-infringement of Apple Registered Community Design
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The IPKat has been following with great interest the Battle of the Tablets - the on-going dispute between Apple and Samsung being played out in a number of jurisdictions both inside and outside Europe, in which, amongst other matters, Apple is...
An Irish discussion on free market access withdrawal
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According to recent reports by ACP Secretariat Press Service, officials from Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation attend the meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs an...
ACP Forest Management Project to help Jamaicans build resilience
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With the aim of allowing communities to co-manage forested areas while building their resilience to the risks that come with natural hazards, around 215 hectares (531 acres) of watershed areas have been replanted utilising 113,914 seedlings. This i...
EU shows will to increase investment in Zimbabwe
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As the EU has announced its willingness to increase trade and investment relations with Zimbabwe, it has urged the country to take advantage of the bloc’s support for the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA), to which the EU is pro...
What’s going on in Spain? – Demand shocks, hysteria and forgetting the ECB
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UPDATE (13/04/2012): While the overall tone of this post holds, in the view of its author, there are some errors that were identified an addressed in a followup post. You are highly recommended to read these. The relevant sections are … Continu...
Obsessed? Andrew Gilligan churns out 27 attacks on Ken in one month
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With the Daily Telegraph’s Andrew Gilligan pouring derision on Ken Livingstone for trying to move the mayoral race away from negative campaigning, does the “journalist” protest too much? As noted by the blog Gilligan Watch, who have s...
only for male feminists, #9
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Maybe due to my argumentative nature, surely inherited from my italian -dramatic- genes but surely justified by my dialectic education, the truth is that I love an argument. Or a contradiction. And that's why, actually, most of these columns on being...
EU reproaches Caribbean region on EPA ownership
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The EU representative to Antigua & Barbuda and the East Caribbean, Valeriano Diaz, recently criticised regional governments and the private sector for moving slowly to give effect to the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), signed more than...
