Institutional Affairs of the EU
4 Countries Want a Political Troika Where There Are Problems with Rule of Law 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 ...
Should EU Drop Its 'Atom Bomb' on Hungary? "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 ...
Vladimir Shopov: Bulgarians Are Unable To Generate a Vision for Their Future 2012 ended with protests in a small, northern Balkan country - Slovenia that evolved into a rebellion against the system. And 2013 marked the beginning of a series of protests in Bulgaria where everything seemed as if frozen forever in its inaction and lack of perspective. Hungary into the new ...
Migrants Are Good for the EU and It Is Time We Admit That The issue of benefits from migrants in many EU member states is often raised, although the negative attitude prevails. With the deepening of the crisis in many countries in the Union and the adverse forecasts for economic growth, however, the conversation turns into hysteria as recently happene ...
Full Text of David Cameron's European Speech This morning I want to talk about the future of Europe. But first, let us remember the past.Seventy years ago, Europe was being torn apart by its second catastrophic conflict in a generation. A war which saw the streets of European cities strewn with rubble. The skies of London lit by flames nig ...
Too High Expectations with the "Anti-Mafia" Committee in European Parliament 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 ...
Contemporary Crime Requires Contemporary Solutions. Will We Have Them? The next meeting of the committee on organised crime, corruption and money laundering (LIBE) in the European Parliament, scheduled for April 23rd in Brussels, is expected to be very busy. On the agenda is discussing the 744 proposals for amendments to the interim report for tackling organised cr ...
Hollande's Europe: Integration and Solidarity There is no doubt that France and Germany are the motor of the European Union and this is especially evident from the appearances of the leaders of the two countries on European stage. But you will be mistaken to think that it is about their participation in the Council of the EU or the EU summ ...
Everything on the Table After David Cameron's speech about Britain's future relations with the European Union, not a few journalists and analysts compared it, to some extent jokingly, to the famous family phrase "Honey, we have to talk", which usually is a prelude to a parting and possible to a divorce. The desire for ...
David Cameron - the Heretic David Cameron has a very serious flaw - he does not have patience. This is especially evident during his interviews, news conferences, statements in Parliament. He does not have patience to wait for a question to end before answering. This creates rather a feeling of haste, not as much of fast t ...
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