Europa gaat gebukt onder een crisis die vooral het onvermogen van de Europese politiek duidelijk maakt. Omdat iedereen mag meepraten en natuurlijk een eigen visie heeft, worden slechts minuscule stapjes gezet in de hoop daarmee Europa en de euro te redden. Misschien is die ‘slakkenvaart’ het nieuwe wapen in de strijd tegen het afkalvende vertrouwen [...]
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Idealen en geen boekhouders maken Europa!
Posted in Euro, Europe in the news, the Netherlands, tagged begrotingsregels, democractic deficit, democracy, eurocrisis, European Council, european integration, european union, Euroscepticism, fiscal compact on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Early agreements in the European Union co-decision procedure: democracy versus efficiency?
Posted in European Parliament, tagged codecision, early agreements, EUP, european parliament, ordinary legislative procedure, trilogues on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This is a guest post from our colleague at Leiden Anne Rasmussen *************************************************************** The co-decision procedure, which became the ‘ordinary legislative procedure’ of the European Union with the Treaty of Lisbon (2009), has been the subject of a number of adaptations during its relatively short history. One of the most important and most controversial of [...]
Immigration and national politics
Posted in Central and Eastern Europe, the Netherlands, tagged anti-immigration website, complaints about Eastern Europeans, Marek Siwiec, meldpunt midden en oost europeanen, PVV, Wilders on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You have probably heard about the website set up by the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) to collect complaints against Eastern Europeans (Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians in particular). The website has been widely condemned by the international community (including the EU citizens rights commissioner Viviane Reding) but has also received tens of thousands of reactions from Dutch citizens, [...]
Datapoints of the day
Posted in Educational policy, tagged educational disparities in Europe, secondary education, upper secondary education on February 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In Portugal, 32% of the adult population have at least an upper secondary degree. In the Czech Republic, 92% have one. The data is for 2010 and is provided by EUROSTAT (and is discussed here). I have graphed the figures for the European countries in the map below. An interesting pattern emerges with the Northern [...]
Delors: no future for the EU without without cooperation
Posted in Europe in the news, Future of the EU, tagged Delors, EMU, eurocrisis, the Community method, the Council of Ministers on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A wonderful interview (in Dutch) by Jacques Delors in Het Financiele Dagblad, also to be found on the website of his think tank, Notre Europe, here. As the most proactive President of the European Commission and one of the ‘fathers’ of the internal market project and the euro, he makes it clear that he is [...]
Neelie Kroes stands for media freedom in Hungary…but not Bulgaria… while Putin blogs in the FT
Posted in Central and Eastern Europe, tagged bulgarian journalists, bulgarian media, media pluralism, neelie kroes, reporters without borders on February 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last week, the Financial Times Brussels Blog reported that Dutch Commissioner Neelie Kroes sent a letter to the Hungarian government reminding them that ‘ the respect of media freedom and media pluralism is not only about the technically correct application of EU and national law, but also and more importantly, about implementing and promoting these [...]
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