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The European Parliament has passed a resolution in support of the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Iran. A day earlier MEPs discussed the situation in the country with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton. She recalled that in November 2011 the International ... more

Let's finally face it - the time of Europe of Unification is over. Now is the time of a Responsible Europe (I am borrowing the name from the Danish Presidency, which has put Europe's responsibility on top of its 6-month long agenda). Europe, which is aware what and why it is doing. It is aware of ... more

I was not right in my predictions that the debate in the European Parliament on the already agreed by the EU leaders on Monday, January 30th, new fiscal treaty would cause the traditional sharp criticism against the loss of community method and the European Parliament's role in the eurozone summits ... more

The theme 'For or Against the Introduction of a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) in the EU’ provoked heated debates on this web site, with several prominent economists, analysts and one MEP involved. In the following text I will try to summarise the main points and conclusions which ... more

On the 1st of March 2012 25 out of 27 EU member states will sign the new Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the so called fiscal compact. Without so much drama and much faster than expected, on Monday evening ended the informal European Council ... more

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso likes to say that there are 23 million unemployed and 23 million small and medium sized enterprises in the EU, and if each of them would hire one unemployed, the joblessness in the EU will disappear. This example is also often cited by many European leaders ... more

"Firewall - what is the condition - bigger firewall to a de facto or maybe a jural fiscal union. The problem is that the big bazooka had to be there and is not there yet. Trust continues to be destroyed because of this asymmetry of considerations". These are words of Mr Angel Gurria, secretary ... more

In the end of 2011 euinside has decided to broaden its analytical arm and to "export" it towards experts outside the medium. We started a cooperation with the owner of a Coffee Roasting Boutique in Sofia, Dimitar Ashikov, who happens also to be a macro economist, very much keen on debating ... more

Bulgarian National Assembly has given the government a mandate to negotiate on our participation in the new Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)". This is an intergovernmental agreement agreed at the end of last year, previously known as 'fiscal ... more

Almost two months after the snap elections in the country, the Slovenian parliament has on Saturday (January 28) given a mandate to Janez Jansa, leader of the Democratic Party of Slovenia (SDS) to form a new government. Once the members of the cabinet proposed by Jansa are approved this will be the second ... more

The first European Council for this year, devoted to growth and employment, is taking place against the background of the general strike in the Belgian capital. In addition to creating direct difficulties for the leaders' arrival, the strike is literally illustrating the dilemma faced by most European ... more

The fiscal compact should convince the financial markets that Europe can and wants to put its house in order, Danish Ambassador in Bulgaria H.E. Kaare E. Janson is convinced, who spent some time for an interview with euinside. As of January 1 Denmark took over the presidency of the Council of the ... more

Europe must be a political union, where the European Commission looks more like a government, the European Parliament is stronger and the Council (where member states' leaders are presented) is a kind of its second chamber, and the EU Court of Justice is the supreme court with powers to supervise the ... more

Britain has undertaken bold steps to get its economy back on track. Europe should follow suit, British Prime Minister David Cameron said with unconcealed self-confidence at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The pathos of his speech was aimed to show that London did not feel a second ... more