On 15th of September the European Court of Justice handed down a ruling that could set a major precedent to block the so-called “benefit tourism” across Europe: EU countries can withhold basic social benefits from EU migrants if they travel from another member country with no real intention of finding a new job. The ruling […]
Last Sunday, the party led by Alexis Tsipras, the current Greek Prime Minister, had won the Greece’s fifth election in six years, emerging with 35.4% of the vote over the centre-right New Democracy party on 28.1%. Albeit, Syriza looks more vulnerable than it did the first time round, with only 155 seats in parliament compared to […]
Several issues remained open after the end of the global economic crisis that affected most of the substantial economies in the modern world, including the Scandinavian region. Many economic forecasting have highlighted that Nordic economies, namely Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, have failed to recover themselves after the global economic crisis came to the dimly […]
Welcome back. NEU returns after the summer holidays full of energy and ideas. Full of space for new opinions and for new arguments. There will be some changes in our writers team and we will write about issues not enlightened in the past. We are absolutely conscious of the difficulties that the European Union is […]
The President Jean-Claude Junker gave a very passionate speech on the “State of the Union” in Strasbourg, during the Plenary session of the European Parliament of the 3th of September. The aim was to explain the status of implementation of the Commission’s programme and measures foreseen to take implementation to a further level. The speech addressed also […]
In the last decade, we have been accustomed to high oil prices, affecting our costs of transport and production, determining our national (and European) energy policy and making Middle Eastern oil exporters accumulating more than 2.3 trillion dollars in sovereign assets along with scads of fancy toys (arsenals of weapons, brand new cities in the […]
Since negotiations started in 2013, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to be signed together with the US, is literally on fire. Here we are going to talk about one of the most discussed issues in the whole European continent. But from a different point of view: the geopolitical one. Let us see why. […]
The EU is facing two opposite trends. On the one hand it has to face with the anti-EU movements spreading in many EU countries, due to a kind of populist opinion over the economic crisis and over the immigration issue. On the other hand, the EU enlargement remains one of the biggest objectives that is […]
While looking into the Orwellian language of the last agreement between Greece and its creditors, this article will offer some considerations that go far, far beyond Greece. The agreement signed between the Greek government and the “institutions” has been covered many times over by all worlds’ media. In an attempt to offer some food for […]
On August 25th, under the auspices of the EU, Belgrade and Pristina have signed new agreements on how to further normalise their mutual relations. Prime Ministers Aleksandar Vučić (Serbia) and Isa Mustafa (Kosovo) signed four agreements, facilitated by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini. The VP/HR Mogherini voiced satisfaction for an agreement that marks a “landmark […]
