Footballers after football – financially set for life, attractive wife, worshipped by thousands after a career living every boy’s dream. What could possibly go wrong? Well, recent studies show that quite a lot can, and ...
We are living in startling times in the European Union. For the past three years, Angela Merkel has used Germany’s large voting power within European institutions to force through an agenda of collective impoverishment fo...
Portugal recently reached a staggering 15% unemployment. The very night this information became public, the Portuguese Minister for the Economy, Álvaro Santos Pereira, went on national television to justify how in one year exc...
In recent years, millions of Spaniards have voiced their dissatisfaction with the right wing People’s Party government, protesting against crippling austerity measures and attempts to roll back the country’s abortion laws. ...
There is much discussion over whether or not globalisation has actually happened, and how much effect it has had on reducing the sovereignty of states. I take it to be a rather reasonable belief that a measure of globalisation ...
Conviction politicians are applauded while those who flip flop around issues or commit U-turns are lambasted for not being decisive enough. This second sort are not leaders who inspire confidence in the electorate. But why is t...
The road to stability, for Greece, has been difficult. After Greece joined the European Union in 1981, it experienced an unprecedented period of stability. For the next thirty years, Greece had secure political systems in place...
The recent elections in France were undoubtedly a great success for The Socialist Party. Not only did their presidential candidate Francois Hollande beat the then conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, but the party also won a...
The 17th of December saw the installation of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition cabinet following the longest entre-en scene of government in German history. Despite the prolonged negotiations, foreign poli...