Editorials

Jean-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...

There is a great deal to reform in the way the European institutions are run. The appointment of new personalities should be an occasion to make notable change. For example a consensus seems to have formed on the need to bring clusters of the Commission's competences within the responsibility...

57 years after the Rome Treaty Europe experienced its first major economic and financial crisis, and after the European elections that confirmed doubt about community integration, debate has now been launched about the role and the functioning of the European institutions. 2014 is the year in...

The rise of populism in Europe has increased with the economic crisis. Cause and effect - half of the 28 EU members are governed by coalitions, the other half by 7 leftwing governments and 8 on the right. The spirit of coalition will still prevail over the new Parliament. The major democratic...