Let’s not boycott the tournament in Ukraine
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German policy has focused on EURO 2012. You can hear the call for boycott. More and more politicians declare that they will not participate in the Ukrainian part of the tournament. In addition, they encourage UEFA to withdraw the matches from Ukraine...
French presidential debate press round-up: Hollande 0.5 - Sarkozy 0 | Jessica Reed
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Both Sarkozy and Hollande threw heavy punches in the final pre-election bout. But who would you declare winner?It was the most bruising, technical, blow-by-blow presidential debate that France had seen in decades, and both candidates pulled absolutel...
An historic reluctance
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David Gow Thursday, 03 May 2012 Hammond urges Germany to match its economic might with military weight Two decades ago, in the wake of reunification, the then German defence minister, Volker Rühe, officiall...
Markets Live transcript 3 May 2012
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Markets Live chat transcript for the chat ending at 11:10 on 3 May 2012. Participants in this chat were: Bryce Elder/FT Izabella Kaminska BE Good morning.BE Welcome to Markets Live....
Press Freedom Day – the world looks to Azerbaijan
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Today, 3 May, is United Nations World Press Freedom Day. For me this is a chance to remember the fundamental rights, including to self-expression, that are safeguarded for all of us in the European Union – whether you’re a journalist, blo...
Britain in Europe: A tragedy in the making or just another episode in a long-running soap opera?
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Thursday, 03 May 2012 By David Hannay, Lord Hannay of Chiswick Veterans of Britain's turbulent relationship with the European Union could be forgiven for thinking that recent developments in that saga were a...
May 8th, Film Screening in the EP: Goryani – The Forgotten Resistance Against Communists in Bulgaria
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Dear colleagues and friends, It is my pleasure to invite you together with the group for Reconciliation of European Histories to a film screening of the documentary “Goryani” at 18:45 on 8 May in the Europe...
Eurosphere roundup: Amnesty reports discrimination against Muslims, French Elections, Austerity policies…
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TweetShare via emailMay day protests highlight Europe’s pain from FT.com – World, Europe Tens of thousands of workers take to the streets for annual marches, demonstrating against government spending cuts and rising unemployment How real is H...
Education reduces gender inequality through its employment effect
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Women’s employment, education,and the gender gap in 17 countries "Data from the Luxembourg Income Study show that, among married or cohabiting mothers, better educated women are more likely to be employed; gender inequality in annual earning...
The (early) Lunch Wrap
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Good morning New York…FT ALPHAVILLE Presenting the Public Sector Credit Framework. A quantitative alternative to sovereign and muni credit ratings produced by the agencies has just launched....
5 things I learned by not understanding the French Presidential debate
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Last night I conducted a very unscientific experiment. The Gaulois gathered 18 French voters (read, some of my flatmates friends) to watch the Presidential debate between Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande. I used the opportunity to try and lear...
A gain for Golden Dawn would be a dark day for Greece | Sophia Ignatidou
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Greeks shouldn't let their despair drive them to supporting the dangerous and opportunistic far-right party in Sunday's election"Why should they vote for us? Because they have nothing better," says Nikolaos Michaloliakos, leader of a Greek far-right...
ECB meeting preview, door likely to be left ajar
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The European Central Bank will meet on Thursday, and the broad consensus is for rates to remain on hold. After yesterday’s dismal Purchasing Manager Indices, the press conference...
Children online
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Within the Digital Agenda the European Commission set out a plan for introducing better online content for children as well as for protecting them from harmful sides of digital world. According to the gathered data today 75% of children use the inter...
Fight! Tom Watson and Louise Mensch at daggers over Murdoch report
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The fallout from the CMS Committee’s report into phone hacking continued this morning, with private committee discussion spilling out on to Twitter after Louise Mensch revealed details of MPs deliberations on this morning’s Today Progra...
The election of François Hollande: a chance to disrupt the Franco-German bipolarity
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The French citizens will be called to vote for their next president on May 6. It seems that the leader of the socialist opposition Mr François Hollande, will win the elections over the conservative president Nikolas Sarkozy. Up to this date the orat...
7ème Briefing Régional
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Le Briefing de Bruxelles sur les Petites Economies Insulaires, qui s’est tenue le 4 avril 2012, a eu un grand succès. En guise de suivi, le CTA et ses partenaires, et en collaboration avec le gouvernement de Maurice, organisent le 7ème Briefing...
One in the eye from Pie? Or, when is a licence not a licence?
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In a post this March, this Kat confessed that he had failed to spot that there was a hearing before the Court of Justice of the European Union in a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Brussels Cour d'appel in Case C-376/22 Pie Optiek v Bureau...
Can the European consumer rescue Europe?
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I wrote this article for Edelman’s ConsumerACTIONism blog In case you couldn’t tell from the made-up-word-with-random-capitals-inserted, it’s a consumer marketing blog. Can the European consumer rescue Europe?
Daily Digest: Eurozone unemployment reaches new record
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Following the president of the Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso and EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, the Austrian government also announced yesterday that it would boycott all Euro 2012 football matches in Ukraine. German Chancellor Angela Merk...
VIDEO: Explaining Boris v Ken, London's Mayoral election
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Peter Popham in this video shot by FSN's Catherine Drew explaining to Daily Beast readers the significance of London's Mayoral election, and introducing its front-runners, Boris and Ken.
Delivering environmental benefits through agri-environment schemes - by Alan Matthews
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New IEEP study shows the inappropriateness of mandating fixed and uniform management actions across the whole of the EU to achieve environmental goals. Existing entry-level agri-environment schemes in member states involve very diverse management pra...
Delivering environmental benefits through agri-environment schemes - by Alan Matthews
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New IEEP study shows the inappropriateness of mandating fixed and uniform management actions across the whole of the EU to achieve environmental goals. Existing entry-level agri-environment schemes in member states involve very diverse management pra...
How low can you go?
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Perhaps it’s been the two weeks of unrelenting rain here, but it’s been hard to be too optimistic about the EU of late. David Cameron’s remarks at the weekend about being less than halfway through the Eurozone crisis have only bee...
How has the Brighton Declaration Affected the Defence of Human Rights in Europe?
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With just a month remaining of its six-month Chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, the UK was determined to make its mark. The European Court of Human Rights (the Court) certainly created a lot of press attention … C...
