http://www.euinside.eu Rss site description en Copyright: (C) 2013 euinside.eu see http://www.euinside.eu/en/copyright adelina.marini@euinside.eu (chief editor) 20 May yyyy 01:05:24 z 20 May yyyy 01:05:24 z News site http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 15 euinside.eu http://static.euinside.eu/images/euinside-rss.png http://www.euinside.eu/ 73 24 http://www.euinside.eu http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/the-bulgarian-elections-weathercock Bulgaria held its early parliamentary elections on May 12th 2013. The period during the political campaign was marked by mistrust in the political process, discovery of 350 000 extra illegal ballots and wire-taping scandals. Regardless of the high expectations around this election, it seems that ... 17 May yyyy 14:05:01 z 17 May yyyy 16:05:03 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/the-bulgarian-elections-weathercock analyses http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/the-bulgarian-elections-weathercock#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/faces/is-ruza-tomasic-a-nationalist-a-populist-or-is-she-a-woman-of-principle Ruža Tomašić, the leader of the rights' party "Dr. Ante Starcevic", scared quite a lot of people in the political and administrative establishment in Croatia. The tested for the first time option for preferential voting raised Ruža Tomašić, former Canadian emmigrant, to winner ... 17 May yyyy 11:05:57 z 17 May yyyy 15:05:35 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/faces/is-ruza-tomasic-a-nationalist-a-populist-or-is-she-a-woman-of-principle faces http://www.euinside.eu/en/faces/is-ruza-tomasic-a-nationalist-a-populist-or-is-she-a-woman-of-principle#comments Ruza's Dream http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/bank-resolution-and-the-bail-in-tool One of the big lessons from the crisis in Europe that was not spoken of sufficiently is that in the very beginning the wrong approach was chosen - first individual rescue and then seeking a EU solution. Some countries rushed to rescue their collapsing banking sectors, others were pushed to do so ... 16 May yyyy 16:05:07 z 16 May yyyy 18:05:13 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/bank-resolution-and-the-bail-in-tool analyses http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/bank-resolution-and-the-bail-in-tool#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/germany-netherlands-finland-denmark-ask-for-a-political-troika Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia. Where else? In Hungary, the government of Prime Minister Victor Orban took a course of an overhaul of the Constitution, which raised a great lot of questions about whether Hungary is not scorning the fundamental European values. In Romania, the inter-institu ... 13 May yyyy 15:05:14 z 13 May yyyy 17:05:27 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/germany-netherlands-finland-denmark-ask-for-a-political-troika analyses http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/germany-netherlands-finland-denmark-ask-for-a-political-troika#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/blog/croatia-changed-the-mindset-next-step-citizenship Do you remember when the former tsar of the Bulgarians, Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotta, called for a change of mindset? We laughed a lot back then. And it was even funnier when it became clear after his rule that he was hardly the person to talk about a mindset change. Nonetheless, against the backdro ... 10 May yyyy 18:05:27 z 10 May yyyy 20:05:44 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/blog/croatia-changed-the-mindset-next-step-citizenship blog http://www.euinside.eu/en/blog/croatia-changed-the-mindset-next-step-citizenship#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/decision-making-in-the-eurozone-needs-to-change-olli-rehn-said "We have to recognise the structural problems of our decision-making in the area of economic and financial affairs. This calls for the completion of the Economic and Monetary Union, which should bring the current inter-governmental arrangements into the Community framework and strengthen the ext ... 10 May yyyy 10:05:48 z 10 May yyyy 12:05:04 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/decision-making-in-the-eurozone-needs-to-change-olli-rehn-said news http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/decision-making-in-the-eurozone-needs-to-change-olli-rehn-said#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/comments/the-saddest-may-9th-in-europe For sure, however, it will not be the last because from a day of unification it has been turning more and more into a day marking how much the division has grown. In the period before the eurozone debt crisis, the EU was the unique project, succeeding to overcome hostilities and wars i ... 8 May yyyy 12:05:05 z 8 May yyyy 22:05:46 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/comments/the-saddest-may-9th-in-europe comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/comments/the-saddest-may-9th-in-europe#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/its-not-the-austerity-stupid-its-the-structural-reforms It is very difficult in an environment of rapidly gaining popularity populists to conduct policy of correcting past mistakes, which usually leads to social discontent and every now and then to early elections as well. Even harder that is in the framework of a very complex organism such as the Eu ... 7 May yyyy 17:05:22 z 7 May yyyy 19:05:41 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/its-not-the-austerity-stupid-its-the-structural-reforms analyses http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/its-not-the-austerity-stupid-its-the-structural-reforms#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/croatia-stuck-in-recession Quite pessimistically is titled the spring forecast of the European Commission for Croatia - "Recovery slipping further away. Stuck in recession". Only two months before its accession to EU, the moods in Croatia are not at all festive. The economy has been in recession since 2008 as by now the e ... 6 May yyyy 16:05:45 z 6 May yyyy 18:05:27 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/croatia-stuck-in-recession news http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/croatia-stuck-in-recession#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/spring-forecasts-by-the-european-commission The European Institutions started to retreat under pressure from the anti-austeritists, but in the same time their voices have become stronger in calling that undertaking structural reforms and reducing budget deficits and public debts are not one and the same thing. And if for some Friday was C ... 6 May yyyy 14:05:12 z 6 May yyyy 16:05:21 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/spring-forecasts-by-the-european-commission news http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/spring-forecasts-by-the-european-commission#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/blog/times-of-miracles-have-ended-zeljko-kardum One of the most appropriate ways to learn more about a country, its problems and attitudes is by reading local press. That is why, from time to time we offer you herewith translations of some of the most colourful commentaries in the serious political and economic media in Croatia. While follow ... 3 May yyyy 10:05:00 z 3 May yyyy 10:05:46 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/blog/times-of-miracles-have-ended-zeljko-kardum blog http://www.euinside.eu/en/blog/times-of-miracles-have-ended-zeljko-kardum#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/too-much-is-expected-from-the-anti-corruption-committee-ep The special committee for organised crime, corruption and money laundering started its meeting on April 23rd with turning the spotlight onto an isolated case. The decision of the committee's chairwoman Sonia Alfano (ALDE, Italy) to raise the issue about a signal of an assassination threat for th ... 2 May yyyy 17:05:12 z 2 May yyyy 19:05:17 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/too-much-is-expected-from-the-anti-corruption-committee-ep news http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/too-much-is-expected-from-the-anti-corruption-committee-ep#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/no-emotions-and-pragmatism-between-croatia-and-serbia Changes in Serbia are one of the rare cases of which it could be said that EU does wonders. The government, which caused widespread fears in the international community and most of all in Europe because of its proximity to the regime that led to bloody wars in Europe in the end of the 20th centu ... 2 May yyyy 09:05:56 z 2 May yyyy 11:05:01 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/no-emotions-and-pragmatism-between-croatia-and-serbia news http://www.euinside.eu/en/news/no-emotions-and-pragmatism-between-croatia-and-serbia#comments Less Emotions and a Lot of Pragmatism Serbia Wants in Relations with Croatia http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/taming-of-serbia-kosovo-agreement "Serbia's progress toward European integration bears huge strategic consequences for the Western Balkans. Simply, without Serbia moving forward onto the next stage, the entire enlargement agenda will be thrown into uncertainty. Not to mention the unfolding of nationalism in Serbia itself", this ... 26 Apr yyyy 17:04:10 z 26 Apr yyyy 19:04:15 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/taming-of-serbia-kosovo-agreement analyses http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/taming-of-serbia-kosovo-agreement#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/comments/reasons-for-populism-not-the-crisis-katinka-barysch Populists and extremists are on the rise across Europe. Even Germany is now seeing the rise of a eurosceptic party. The euro crisis is the reason for growing political risk in the eurozone. Or is it? True, populist parties are more important in several euro countries. But the reasons for this ar ... 24 Apr yyyy 16:04:06 z 24 Apr yyyy 17:04:20 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/comments/reasons-for-populism-not-the-crisis-katinka-barysch comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/comments/reasons-for-populism-not-the-crisis-katinka-barysch#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/croatian-rose-can-be-beautiful-but-very-thorny The first European elections in Croatia have been won by Ruza Tomasic or as they call her here Ruza Hrvatska (Croatian rose). Thanks to the applied for the first time model of preferential voting, Ruza Tomasic surfaced from sixth place on the list of the right-wing coalition, led by the symbolic ... 24 Apr yyyy 10:04:54 z 24 Apr yyyy 12:04:39 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/croatian-rose-can-be-beautiful-but-very-thorny analyses http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/croatian-rose-can-be-beautiful-but-very-thorny#comments http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/hungary-or-how-the-devil-reads-the-gospel "Hungary is trampling over our common values and denying them to its citizens". "That's why there is a clear case to trigger Article 7.1 of the Treaty, because in Hungary there is a clear risk of a serious breach of the fundamental European values set out in Article 2". This is what Guy Verhofst ... 23 Apr yyyy 12:04:18 z 23 Apr yyyy 16:04:27 z http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/hungary-or-how-the-devil-reads-the-gospel analyses http://www.euinside.eu/en/analyses/hungary-or-how-the-devil-reads-the-gospel#comments