Which way for the UK? The political economy of ‘After-Brexit’
What is next? Post-industrial areas – particularly in Wales and Northern Ireland – benefit significantly from EU structural funds, and their governments will continue to advocate on their behalf. But...
View ArticlePost-Coup Turkey and Its Implications for South Caucasus
After several years of European attempt to locate the three South Caucasian countries, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, within a common framework, policies of these neighbouring states have become more...
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Hungary’s lose-lose referendum
Hungarians will be casting ballots in a controversial referendum on EU migrant quotas this Sunday. Or so the government of the country’s outspoken conservative prime minister, Viktor Orbán hopes. In an...
View ArticleBrexit: a WTO issue first and foremost
100 days on from the fateful UK referendum, the only thing agreed on is the huge complexity of Brexit. This justifies the wait-and-see approach of the UK government which, by cataloguing the many...
View ArticleEurope’s Hybrid Adversary: The European Dimension of the Battle for Aleppo
After the latest Syrian ceasefire deal had been violated through a reckless airstrike on a UN-convoy which headed into the encircled Aleppo, more than 560 people were killed (according to the Syrian...
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MEP Richard Sulik on Trump, Migrant Crisis and Islam. What are Europe’s...
Richard Sulik is a leader of Slovakia’s liberal party SaS (strana Sloboda a Solidarita). He is a former President of the country’s Parliament and since 2014 he has been elected a Member of the European...
View ArticleMacron’s EUtopia of equals: Should France be pointing fingers at others while...
After the presidential and parliamentary victories of Emmanuel Macron and his party earlier this year, many in Europe expect that the EU will rise from the self-defeating lethargy of slow demise....
View ArticleLuxembourg to lose out in latest round of Eurozone changes. Will it defy the...
If a week is a long time in politics, then a decade must surely feel like eternity. About ten years ago, the world’s financial system, and with it the global economy, went into a tailspin. Despite the...
View ArticleMurder of Slovak investigative journalist & his fiancée is a direct attack on...
This article has been co-authored by Frank Markovic and Jana Zilkova. Slovakia, a small central European country of 5.5 million, is currently experiencing some of its most challenging days – the likes...
View ArticleFor the Eurozone, Another Bump in the Road?
Still no government deal in Italy. But a deal in the future could mean several things. In the most likely scenarios, we could see either more political fracturing or a populist coalition government...
View ArticleEU Foreign Policy: It is more efficient to work with its weaknesses than to...
Regarding the conflicts in Syria and in the MENA region, two main issues are being over discussed; Schengen and the EU foreign policy. Not to be confused and in order to avoid general comments on the...
View ArticleTurkey In: The Storm’s Eye
A chorus of international condemnation is growing around Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian state. Yet, the EU finds that the country remains on track to join the union. A closer look reveals the slow...
View ArticleThe Dire Straits of Brexit: Potential implications for the EU, UK and the V4
This article was co-written by Dr Christian Schweiger, Frank Markovic & Tomas A. Nagy. Towards the ´inevitable´ referendum As the third largest member state in terms of population, the UK has in...
View ArticleSpain: looking for a new government
National elections took place in Spain more than two months ago, and yet, the country does not seem any closer now to having a new government that it did the 20th of December. During these two months,...
View ArticleTime to change it all!
Observers are focussing on the 23rd June referendum, but more important is what will happen on the 24th. If a majority votes to leave, will Commissioner Hill be buying a one-way ticket to London? Will...
View ArticleEurope’s troublemakers: Similar style, different motives
During the frequent European Council summits, two men are certain to make the headlines lately. Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has long been the pariah – or enfant terrible, depending on one’s political...
View ArticleThe EU’s deepening crisis and the problem with Germany’s leadership
The EU has now been in permanent crisis mode for almost a decade. It has been rattled by the combination of the lingering sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone and the emergence of a mounting refugee...
View ArticleDutch Referendum: a symbolic blow to the establishment & an opportunity for...
Over the course of the past decade or so, the Netherlands has had two opportunities to snub the EU elites and it has not passed on either of the two: first in 2005 when the country voted against the...
View ArticleConstitutional crisis in Poland: is EU rule of law at risk?
Since the October 2015 elections in Poland, won by the right-wing eurosceptic party Law and Justice,the country has repeatedly been in the European agenda because of its so called constitutional...
View ArticleGone with Schengen
Undoubtedly, 2015 has been the refugees’ year in Europe. According to the UNHCR, around 1,006, 768 immigrants have arrived in the European Union fleeing from war and poverty across the Mediterranean...
View ArticleBrexit: Revolutions are won on ideals
What I tell my friends when they ask about Brexit As we draw closer to what promises to be a momentous vote for both the future of the UK and Europe – the British referendum on the country’s membership...
View ArticleBritain and ‘the Continent’
With the referendum on the UK’s membership to the EU just around the corner and polls indicating a neck and neck race, campaigners on both sides are understandably desperate to score points. Winston...
View ArticleVote on Fact NOT Spin
Be an Informed Voter: For your children and your children’s children As a European happily living and working in London, the EU Referendum debate has been rife with controversies, grotesque lies to the...
View ArticleThe European Union: 20 years in the wrong direction
Brexit on 23 June, glyphosate on 24 June… On issues big and small, the EU needs to re-build itself from top to bottom 20 years ago I published “L’Europe à contresens”. This small book made a big impact...
View ArticleSlovakia’s EU Presidency: Brexit, divided Europe and an opportunity to...
Today the Netherlands hands over the reins of the EU Council presidency to Slovakia. The challenges at hand could not be more consequential: the EU structures are being undermined by the popular revolt...
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