Editorials
•21/12/2014
Europe: and now for recovery?2014 has brightened the horizon for the European Union
With the institutions elected afresh, new policies to revive the economy and also a new strategic context, the situation that Europeans find at the start of 2015 has changed considerably. Will this be the year of recovery? How far will it be...
•03/11/2014
2014: a turning point for Europe?This year all of the European institutions will have been re-appointed afresh.
It is said that they are now more "political". What does this mean?
A straight reading of this imposed by some is certainly not the right one. With this they aim to move forward democratically but they are...
•06/10/2014
Juncker's other challengeThe crisis and its budgetary constraints have simply accelerated Europe's disarmament.
Together Europeans now only spend 18% of the world's military appropriations against 30% 10 years ago. At the same time the world has stepped up its efforts by 65% to total 1,750 billion $. Europe only spends...
•11/09/2014
Jean-Claude Juncker - an ace in leadershipJean-Claude Juncker has made a successful start.
As he handed out precise tasks to his new Commissioners he indicated to them that Europe now has a 29th Member State, i.e.the 25 million unemployed, and that this has to mobilise all of their energies and employ all of their time. With this he has...