On March the 15th the European Union will face a populist threat, again. The populist threat is a common issue throughout the western countries, with important effects on their political structures, values and traditions. Many words have been spoken and many lines written about this old story that has been poisoning the European political conscience. […]
The Netherlands has been relatively less involved in the situation of the mass immigration that neighbours had to manage. The Dutch took significantly fewer asylum seekers during the refugee crisis, and much of the country’s nonnative population settled in the Netherlands decades ago. However, to many Wilders supporters, the overall picture of a growing economy […]
851 000. It is the unique number of news brought by Google to you if your search action on Wednesday 8th of March, was “Dutch elections 2017”. For instance this number was quite same only several days before the US presidential elections was held last year. It seems that even Google understands the significance of […]
Here we are. The political elections in the Netherlands will be the start of a series of important appointments in Europe. Elections in France, and soon in Italy and perhaps snap elections in the UK. These appointments will be crucial. At the end of them European Union could be stronger, or could not exist anymore. […]
Achieving both economic growth and GHG emissions reductions is essential to avoid dangerous climate change, with its associated economic, social and environmental costs. Keeping the global temperature rise below 2°C represents a major challenge, particularly while ensuring decarbonisation is cost-effective and maintaining security of supply and competiveness. A number of policies have been implemented throughout […]
The European economy is widely affected by late payment, which have a negative effect in particultar for small and medium enterprise. The European Commission is taking further steps against four member states – Greece, Italy, Slovakia and Spain – to ensure the correct application of the late payment directive (directive 2011/7/EU). This action has been announced by the EU in the latest weeks, and is aimed at preventing […]
The Regiostars Awards 2017 has been launched! The objective of RegioStars is to identify good practice in regional development and to highlight original and innovative projects or support schemes that could be an inspiration to other regions. There are five RegioStars Award categories for 2017: Smart Specialisation for SME innovation Energy Union: Climate action […]
After EU expanded to include 10 Eastern European countries, with the exception of the UK, Ireland and Sweden, all other pre-2004 EU member states decided to temporarily restrict labour market access to migrants from the 8 countries who joined the EU upon their accession to the EU in 2004. This was possible because the accession […]
It is more and more the leitmotiv of this strange and hard period for the Union the fact of underlying the distance between the first countries which joined and the latecomers. The first are always addressed as “Old Europe”, vs the second ones as the new one. But is it a difference which has some […]
On 23rd of November 1959 in Strasbourg, the president of the newly formed Fifth French Republic, Charles de Gaulle has announced his vision of Europe: “Yes, it is Europe, from Atlantic to the Ural, this is Europe, this is whole Europe, a Europe which will create a world`s destiny”. And indeed, the European project maybe […]
