So, here’s the thing: If people like me keep saying that the best way to deal with the EU’s democratic disconnect is an elected president of the EU, then it is incumbent upon me to try and explain how it would work, and how we deal with... […]
Secoué par la crise de la dette souveraine, l’édifice de la monnaie unique s’est fissuré. Les États estiment désormais qu’un retour aux anciennes monnaies nationales est inévitable, l’euro étant manifestement ingouvernable, les États... […]
Première salve sur le sujet avec la publication d’une lettre ouverte de la communauté des éditeurs et des webmasters de la Commission européenne au président Barroso et aux Commissaires entrants, en janvier. Nombreuses préconisations afin d... […]
Any day now the advertisements should go out for the top jobs in Brussels’ new diplomatic service – the European External Action Service, as it will be boringly known. If the optimists are right, the service will be anything but boring. It’s th... […]
Evidently there is now a considerable debate out there about the famous (or should that be infamous) CEBS stress tests. Methodologically all sorts of weaknesses have been identified, but in many cases these are decidedly beside the point. It is impor... […]
A friend pointed me to the Working Document on a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the citizens’ initiative from the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Rapporteurs for this... […]
The European Union has a big problem with Bulgaria, and may not know it. Here is why. The purpose of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) is to investigate the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles... […]
As I and other BP editors have hinted at recently, over the past 6 or more months we’ve had a series of email discussions about how to develop BloggingPortal. In fact, one such discussion - based around an idea I launched via a Google documen... […]
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