Adequate warmth, cooling, lighting and the energy to power appliances are essential services needed to guarantee a decent standard of living and citizens’ health. Furthermore, access to these energy services empowers European citizens to fulfil their potential and enhances social inclusion. Energy poor households experience inadequate levels of these essential energy services, due to a […]
On the 17th December, new call for proposals were lunched under Prima, the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area. The overall objective of the PRIMA programme is to build research and innovation capacities and to develop knowledge and common innovative solutions for agro-food systems, to make them sustainable, and for integrated water […]
The ninth European elections will take place between the 23rd and 26th of May 2019, when 350 million EU citizens will have their chance to elect the 705 members of the European Parliament. In 2019, the European Parliament will comprise indeed fewer MEPs (705) than at present (751) due to the departure of 73 British […]
2019, the “Year of Change” has finally come. This year the European Union will host a plethora of main events, starting with the European Parliament elections in May. This year, the European Commission will be renewed and Mr Juncker, the current EU Commission President, declared already he will not run for a second mandate. In […]
“Everything must change so that everything can stay the same”: some might say that for the European elections in 2019. The year ahead is promising in terms of surprises and momentums in European politics. The process that we aim at following in this column hardly progressed over the past two years. There is no grand […]
After the holidays’ season, the European Parliament is preparing for the upcoming elections which will be held in 2019. For the EU, the next crucial stocktaking of voters’ sentiment will be the 2019 elections for the European Parliament (23-26 May). Not only will the EP elections take place after the UK will left the EU […]
With this issue about the last EU Council, we announce you a little stop for the Christmas break and we take the occasion to give everybody our best wishes and to hope with all our NEU readers that the new year will be as interesting and possibly less cruel for so many people that 2018 […]
COP 24 took place from the 2nd to 14th of December in Katowice, Poland, at the end of a year (2018) marked by an unprecedented concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and numerous extreme incidents (drought, fires, world temperature records, etc.) that are now regularly in the media spotlight. In this context, the conclusion of […]
Brexit was on every headline. Yet the fact that the Multiannual financial framework (MFF) won’t be approved before autumn 2019 is probably the takeaway with more consequences out of the European Council just ended. The European Parliament called on the Council to proceed quickly on this dossier. Especially progressive forces in the EP hoped that […]
The last week in Brussels took place the last European Council of the year. Despite the tragedy happened in Strasbourg, “the show must go on” and the most important actors of the European Union sat on their own seat. During the entire year, like in March or during the summer and in October, migration have […]
