Time 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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