Does Europe need UK? Now that the EU is passing through one of its worst moments in history, would it not be stronger as a German-centric Continental Europe? The European Union is passing through one of the worst moments in its history. After decades spent in uniting European economies towards the (partly) achieved goal of the common […]
“Deal. Unanimous support for new settlement for #UKinEU”, announced an exultant Donald Tusk in his long-awaited tweet, and picked up ovations for probably the most cited announcement made on that day in the world media. Soon after, all British newspapers and TV stations started a bidding quest of predicting the ultimate outcome of the revealed […]
Nearly three quarters of the EU Member States have some form of statutory national minimum wage but there are many differences among European countries.This is one of the result highlighted in the Statutory minimum wages in the EU 2016 report released by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound). Out of […]
The agreement for a temporary ceasefire in Syria reached last Friday in Munich among seventeen countries on an initiative of US and Russia, showed since its very beginning its limits. Not only for Assad’s words, who declared he did not want to stop the military offense in the north now that he is gaining ground, or for the […]
The EU imports more than half of the energy it consumes. Its import dependency is particularly high for crude oil (more than 90%) and natural gas (66%). The total import bill is more than €1 billion per day. The dependency is strategically a problem especially for those countries heavily reliant on one single supplier (some […]
Recently, Europol stated that 10.000 of unaccompanied migrant children had vanished after registering with state authorities and many of them are feared to have fallen into the hands of organised trafficking. Previously, Europol also stated that while before the phenomenon of smuggling and trafficking were quite distant, intelligence gathered in the last months shows that […]
Mr. David Cameron is facing the biggest challenge of his career. After reaching an agreement with Brussels, the in/out referendum expected this June will define British Prime Minister’s legacy. Britain will be voting in another major referendum, nearly two years after they voted on Scotland’s future as part of Great Britain. This time, their vote […]
The deal with the UK was the subject of intensive talks yesterday at the European Council. Negotiations at all levels are still ongoing to find an agreement with all member states. The 28 heads will seek to reach an agreement on a legally binding decision today. Following the discussion at the December 2015 European Council […]
The first Steering Committee meeting of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey was held yesterday in Brussels. The Committee, composed by the Member States and Turkey, gave the European Commission the mandate to immediately implement the 2016 contribution from the EU budget to provide more urgently needed humanitarian aid and access to education for refugee children […]
Free movement of people has been one of the cornerstone of the Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957. With the removal of border barriers and the abolishment of labour market restrictions, EU nationals have had the opportunity to settle wherever they choose within the boundaries of the European Union. Nevertheless, labour mobility has turned into […]
