Poland now under PO control
The second round of the Polish presidential elections are over. The moderate candidate Bronislaw Komorowski from the governing PO has won over the last Kaczynski brother. This will hopefully set the...
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Rentendebatte und die besonderen Ost-Frauen-Renten
Vielleicht liegt es am Sommerloch, vielleicht an der ungelösten langfristigen Finanzierung. Jedenfalls läuft mal wieder die Rentendebatte in Deutschland. Spiegel Online zieht die Debatte an einem...
View ArticleFrance and German tax systems, EU cooperation
After visiting German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, French budget minister Francois Baroin comes up with some weird comments on Franco-German tax cooperation and the EU budget according to the...
View ArticleDecision-making in the Council links
There is a useful website at the University of Gothenborg which links up to studies and articles on decision-making in the Council of the European Union. Daniel Naurin, the editor, describes the...
View ArticleEuropean Legislative Politics Research Group
ELPRG is a network of younger researchers with a common interest in legislative politics in the European Union (EU). The aim of the research group is to further our understanding of EU legislative...
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Wir gestalten unsere Zukunft europäisch – Grüner Aufruf
Europa in der Krise. Man mag in diesen Monaten sarkastisch antworten wollen: Schon wieder oder immer noch? Die europäische Bilanz der letzten Jahre scheint wirklich mager zu sein: Vertrag von Lissabon...
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Europäische Wirtschaftsregierung – Kampfbegriff oder föderale Vision?
„European Monetary Union“ oder „Economic and Monetary Union“? Schon lange wird die EU von vielen als Projekt wirtschaftlicher Integration wahrgenommen. Wohl nicht nur aus diesem Grund forderten linke...
View ArticleMladic’ arrest is no reason to celebrate
Yesterday was a very good day. One of the most disgusting criminals of the last decades has been arrested and should be brought to justice soon. Ratko Mladic was a key operator in the ‘Balkan wars’ of...
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How Eurobonds are the way forward
Market pressures on ailing Euro-zone countries persist and the Merkels and Sarkozys struggle to find an answer. The latest hype gaining ground is the idea of Eurobonds. These would be jointly issued...
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A bright(er) outlook for Europe after the Euro-crisis
The European Union surely has had better moments. What first entered centre stage with some troubling fiscal gaps in Greece’s budget in late 2009 has now turned into a much more sustained challenge for...
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