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Spend now, save later
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When trapped in quicksand, our instinctive response is to flail about in an attempt to lift ourselves out of this mortal trap, but struggling to get out is actually the quickest way to go down. The solution to the debt crisis could be equally counter...
Should the City move to Frankfurt?
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The City of London influences the global economy everyday, with its position as a great financial centre for international business, transactions and commerce. A service-based economy since the end of the Second World War, London's success can be asc...
Fog on the channel, continent cuts off
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Being pro-European and living in the UK is not the easiest thing to cope with. The UK is currently undergoing a debate on whether or not to leave the EU. The balance of power between the pros and cons of European integration is overwhelmingly in favo...
The next Generation of government for the EU?
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Last month, the United Kingdoms' Prime Minister, David Cameron, told European news agencies that the European Union needs more flexibility for its Member States to choose whether they want to follow EU policies. While this statement is in line with c...
9th of May: recalling the necessity of a federal Europe
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In such difficult times, when Europe is facing its most severe crisis in decades, the Young European Federalists (JEF-Europe) call Europe back to celebrate the 9th of May, the day of European Unity, but above all the anniversary of Robert Schuman's D...
The EU & the green battle
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Once upon a time the EU was a global leader in fighting climate change. In the last few years it has played a pivotal role in tackling CO2 emissions and boosting the green economy world wide. In international summits, EU representatives advocated rad...
Is there still faith in Europe among Turks?
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It happened last 25th January. Recep Tyyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, invited by the Turkish television channel Kanal 2, comes back on the evasive proposals of Vladimir Putin held in July, when the latter had asked him ‘not without hu...
A tale of Europe in 2020
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Just like the 1930s, this crisis will have a long-lasting impact on Europeans' lives. Just like for a war, our generation has no choice but to confront hardship. Just like any major historical event, it can reveal mankind's brightest and darkest face...
Italy's electoral stalemate and the impact on the European project
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General elections took place in Italy from 24-25 February to decide on the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 17th Parliament of the Italian Republic. The election results reveale...
The EU needs the USA
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In the last couple of years, we witnessed a change in the international relations towards the Asian continent. Within this context, the USA doubled their efforts to face the geopolitical challenges in Asia. Has the EU still a role to play in the inte...
The New European Heritage Label is Here!
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The European “Heritage Label” program was originally an intergovernmental initiative between a handful of volunteer States launched on April 28, 2006, in Grenada, Spain. Two years later, the European Council, wanting to transform this int...
Goodbye Spain, Hello Europe?
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A time traveller hopping from Barcelona in 2008 to the same city in 2013 could be forgiven for thinking his TARDIS had jumped a few decades into the future. Where Spanish flags once fluttered proudly to celebrate the country's first win in the Europe...
Grillo and Grillism
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“There's only one way to avoid great disillusions: not to have great delusions.” European federalists really didn't need Schopenhauer's warning in order to abandon any hope of evolution of the national State. The Ventotene Manifesto had a...
Are the Cypriots richer than the Germans?
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A recent ECB survey shows that the Germans are among the poorest in the Eurozone while Cypriots are among the richest. This suggests that the Cyprus bailout was less fair to German taxpayers than to the Cypriots. Parts of the survey are questionable,...
Tax havens a matter of social responsibility
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In a time when European Union governments are seeking ways to repair their public finances, some countries are striving to survive and to avoid default and European bank account holders and taxpayers are suffering consistent loss of money, tax havens...
Thatcher's European Legacy
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It has been widely reported since her death that Margaret Thatcher has been one of, if not the, most divisive politician of the 20th Century in the UK. I would argue that the same is true for Europe as arguments about her person and her politics have...
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY AND THE GLOBAL AGENDA
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U.S. President Barack Obama's courageous second investiture speech to the Congress (State of the Union Address) and newly-nominated Secretary of State John Kerry's keynote address at the historic University of Virginia (established by one of the Foun...
Stop blaming the 4th Reich for the Crisis
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Why the rising anti-German attitude in Europe is not only unfounded but also counterproductive. There is a growing anti-German feeling in Europe. Sometimes that is latent or openly hostile. First and foremost these resentments are rising in those mai...
Is there an ideal scenario in bailing out countries?
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EU bailouts need to fulfill a political, financial and economic requirement at the same time. It is impossible to fulfill them all at the same time; hence EU bailouts are doomed to be imperfect. As each bailout is unique in the way these three dimens...
Is Cyprus a model for Europe of how to rescue a State?
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who has been chairing the eurogroup committee of finance ministers for two months, said after a long night meeting last Sunday in Brussels that the Cyprus model would be extended to other countries to a...
