Last Wednesday in Strasbourg we saw our first real glimpse of how the next session of the European Parliament will play out over the next 5 years. The leaders of each of the seven revamped political groups in the Plenary, and a...
An election season clears. The excitement of change with President Obama’s reelection settles. China’s once-a-decade power transition remains stable following the Bo Xilai affair. Attention returns to the old continent, as ...
What has been happening to the European integration process in the last decade or so can only be described as an integration paradox. Never before has there been so much discussion and debate at the European level as during the...