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• Current Affairs

  The EU & the green battle

  

  10 May 2013 – 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 (...) by Alessio Pisanò

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  9th of May: recalling the necessity of a federal Europe

  

  9 May 2013 – 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 (...) by JEF-Europe

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  Italy’s electoral stalemate and the impact on the European project

  

  30 April 2013 – 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 (...) by Osmi Anannya

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  The EU needs the USA

  

  28 April 2013 – 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 (...) by RADU GEORGESCU, Translated by Nelly Tsekova

• Current Affairs

  The New European Heritage Label is Here!

  

  27 April 2013 – 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 (...) by Ferghane AZIHARI, Translated by Holden James Ferry

• Current Affairs

  Goodbye Spain, Hello Europe?

  

  23 April 2013 – 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 (...) by Alistair Spearing

• Current Affairs

  Grillo and Grillism

  

  19 April 2013 – “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 already told (...) by Giorgio Anselmi, Translated by Alice Stradi

• Current Affairs

  Are the Cypriots richer than the Germans?

  

  16 April 2013 – 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 (...) by Artus Galiay

• Current Affairs

  THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY AND THE GLOBAL AGENDA

  

  9 April 2013 – 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 (...) by Roberto Palea

• Current Affairs

  Is Cyprus a model for Europe of how to rescue a State?

  

  30 March 2013 – 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 (...) by Alessio Pisanò | 2 comments

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