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The new High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Yes, this is really the official title of the position that will be created once the Lisbon treaty is in force. Why not “EU Foreign minister” you may ask – well, the British delegation successfully managed to lobby against the title of “EU Foreign Minister” in the negotiations (supported by quite a few others). Strange, [...]
Europe@50: back to the future
The EU is preparing to celebrate its 50th birthday which also means a lot of research papers… One of the first pamphlets comes from the rather good European Policy Centre, a Brussels think tank. CHALLENGE EUROPE Europe@50: back to the future tries to answer questions such as ‘Was the European Convention’s work in vain?’ ‘Would [...]
Posted in Brussels, European Debate, European Union, International Politics Also tagged EU, EU presidency, EU Reform, Europa, Europe, European Politics 2 Comments
Tower of Babel
Every now and then a little language war breaks out in the EU institutions. Spain lobbies for Spanish to become one of the official working languages (at the moment: English, French and German) because it is one of most spoken languages worldwide. Germany (sometimes together with Austria) claims that German became more popular after the [...]
Posted in Brussels, European Debate, European Union Also tagged EU, EU Reform, Europa, Europe, European Commission, European Politics, France, ideology, language, nationalism, politics 1 Comment
The European political web aka 'Eurosphere'