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Europe

Budget Negotiations and Inter-Institutional Relations

The recent EU budget negotiations have been subject to quite some debate and media attention, mainly because of their first-time-ever smaller total capacity and the row between Northern European states urging for more cuts and ...
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Europe

Clearing the Smoke, Part I: Confederwhat?

Belgian political life is currently embroiled in a debate on the concept of confederalism, which the Flemish nationalists pose as a solution to the ‘Belgian problem’ – which seems to me as as merely a badly disguised st...
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Albania

Albania: Waiting for a Better Past

1944 heralded the end of the Nazi occupation of Albania, as the country was liberated by the the National Liberation Movement (LNM).  The anti-Fascist National Liberation Council became the country‘s provisional government. ...
by Ole Elfenkämper
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Europe

Gay Marriage: A Thorn in the Side of the Conservative Party?

Since becoming the Leader of the Conservative Party in 2005, David Cameron has gone to great lengths to leave the ‘nasty party’ reputation behind. As part of his plan to make the Tories more socially liberal, the coalition ...
by Tom Danaher
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Europe

End of Year Euro Round-up

Bonne fetês et bonne chance Brussels! So where do we stand at the end of the year? The Banking Union hangs in the balance. Mr. Cameron’s new and (for some) worrying alliance with Angela Merkel has meant the Commission still ...
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Europe

Udder Refusal to Negotiate: Protesting Farmers and CAP Reform

How do you like your milk served? Frothed? Heated? Try sprayed onto the side of a wall. The other week Eurocrats were holding their espresso cups out of their windows, hoping to catch some of the hundreds of gallons of milk tha...
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Economy

Outthinking Inequality in a Distorted Financial System

There has been always inequality within human society. The level of equality in any society can reflect its level of democracy, but also the socio-economic model in which the society functions. There is no doubt that under equa...
by Lívia Magdošková
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Europe

Nobel Prize for the EU {Cartoon}

Amid much controversy, the European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The award is recognition for the role the EU played in bringing peace and democracy to Europe after two world wars.
by Mohammad Ali Ziaei
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Europe

Subsidiarity, or the Conflict between Scale and Community in the EU

A while ago, I read an article saying that we should reconsider the division of tasks in the EU. It was a good article. The author essentially proposed to apply the principle of subsidiarity, which says that each policy area sh...
by Gilles Pittoors
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