Imagine you are the PM or a head of state of a EU member state and you are somehow a “euroskeptic”, “anti-European” or you just don’t care too much about the EU (actually the label is not so important in the end). How do you tell the others? How do you get your ideas across? [...]
The summer break is over. Slowly, the Brussels xpat crowd is coming back from holiday. I just started deleting blog spam….it is incredible what kind of spam you get these days! It used to be only the obvious things about different medications and various operations, as well as dating opportunities…but now they started making compliments: [...]
What is happening at the moment? History (or better the interpretation of history) is more and more used to justify political actions. Nothing really new, but somehow two recent statements were not only shocking but also worrying: First, the Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski used weird historic justifications for his negotiations at the EU summit [...]



