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Forget about growth without a level playing field for all SMEs
Less than 24 hours after a widely advertised Press conference held by Barroso, Rehn and Andor, where all of them were talking about “strengthening the recovery”, recovery in Eurozone was reported as...
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The EU accuses Russia of bullying Ukraine to change sides
It took four days to European Union two presidents to grasp the magnitude of the Ukrainian full U-turn, with Kyiv signing the Moscow led customs union, after cashing in the advance of EU’s financial...
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Who is culpable in the EU for Ukraine’s defection to Russia?
The 350,000 to 500,000 people who protested yesterday, even violently at times, in the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, belonged, theoretically, to the three opposition parties, which had...
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Ukraine pays the price for lying between Russia and the EU
Yesterday, it was a difficult day in Brussels with the EU’s Eastern Partnership under stress, because of the violent suppression of the pro-western street protests in Kiev. This same day the Russian...
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Who cares about the unity of Ukraine?
During the weekend, the new wave of pro-EU protests in central Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, against the government’s last minute decision to drop out from an agreement with the European Union and...
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Commission launches ‘Industrial Renaissance’ initiative
Last Wednesday the European Commission presented a ground-breaking communication for a “European Industrial Renaissance”. With it, the EU’s executive arm “is urging Member States to recognise the...
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High level political talks didn’t break the stalemate in Ukraine
Yesterday Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych held talks with the leaders of the opposition as he promised to EU President Manuel Barroso during their telephone conversation earlier on the day. But...
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EU-Russia summit in the shadows of Kiev’s fumes
In the shadows of fume of the protest fires in Kiev’s Independence Square, the 32nd EU-Russia summit is expected to take place in Brussels this Tuesday. It will end with a working lunch, without an...
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Ukraine: The West and Russia negotiate shares of influence
The seriousness of approach, the magnitude of the interest and the pertinence of the proposal the European Union adopted yesterday to end the stalemate in Ukraine can be seen in the kind of money the...
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Commission publishes the first report on the issuance of a Eurobond
With a brief report, an Expert Group formed by the EU Commission and mandated to study the issue of “a debt redemption fund and eurobills”, undermined the prospect of a Eurobond issuance, by refusing...
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How much more political is the new EU leadership? Does this include personal...
Judging from their first days in office, the new leadership of the European Union appears functioning on a much more ‘political’ platform than their Barroso-Rompuy predecessors. Actually Jean-Claude...
View ArticleWhy Eurozone’s problems may end in a few months
After Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, questioned loudly last Monday the one-sided character of the severe austerity policies currently applied in a number of Eurozone countries,...
View ArticleEU Commission: Growth first then fiscal consolidation
The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, released yesterday its spring forecast for the economic prospects of the Union in 2013-2014. There are three issues to watch in the released text and...
View ArticleAusterity ends in Eurozone, Germany is isolated
Thank god it will not be any more the economists to set the course of economic policy in Eurozone but the people and the politicians. Whatever bad things one may think about politicians, there is one...
View ArticleA comprehensive strategy for Eurozone’s long term growth gains momentum
European Commissioner László Andor responsible for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion delivered an inspired speech entitled “Countering the crisis: fixing Europe’s monetary union and upgrading EU...
View ArticleEducation expenditure in the EU not hurt much by crisis
Early research even from the 1970s has proved that investments in education give the highest returns compared to placements in physical capital. This is true for public and private education...
View ArticleWhy growth is now a one way road for Eurozone
Eurozone trade in goods with the rest of the world in March 2013 left a record surplus of €22.9 billion, according to an announcement released by Eurostat, the EU statistical service. Yet the single...
View ArticleEU summit: No energy against tax evasion and fraud
As the European Sting predicted early yesterday morning, the European Council meeting of 22 May, which regrouped once more the 27 EU leaders, turned out poor results on both subjects that occupied its...
View ArticleEU Commission accuses Germany of obstructing growth and the banking union
The European Commission at the Semester Press Conference in Brussels yesterday confirmed in the most official way, what was already known. Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, are getting an...
View ArticleThe Europeans with a job diminish dangerously
Last Saturday 15 June the President of the European Commission Manuel Barroso was in Rome and met with the Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta. In a Press conference after the meeting the EU dignitary,...
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