Speaking in the European Parliament, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has just outlined the priorities of Italy’s rotating EU Presidency. It is no secret that Renzi would like to see a ‘United States of Europe’ – and today he made much of the need f…
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Advocates of Pan-European Democracy, foremost among them the Socialist’s ‘Spitzenkandidat’ Martin Schulz MEP wished to turn the recent European Elections into a quasi-‘Presidential’ election. The idea was that the ‘winner’ would be the ‘lead candi…
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commission president, european parliament, juncker, MEPs, president of the European parliament, schultz, spitzenkandidaten |
July 1, 2014
Britain: The critical voice of reason?We’ve been monitoring how the British Europe debate is being received across the continent throughout the Juncker episode (here and here), and already noted how large parts of the German commentariat have come out …
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anglo-french cooperation, anglo-german axis, Anglo-German relations, Brexit, EU reform, financial transaction tax, handelsblatt, Jean-Claude Juncker |
Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained for questioning by the French judicial police this morning, over allegations of influence-peddling (trafic d’influence). No formal charges have been brought so far, but prosecutors are investigating whether Sarkozy had…
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Chirac, France, French politics, Front National, Le Pen, Sarkozy |
No major party in the UK backed Jean-Claude Juncker, or any other ‘Spitzenkandidat’. It is therefore fair to say that the UK electorate had no influence over the course of what some describe as an ‘election’.The counter-charge is that David C…
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angela merkel, Cameron, EPP, european parliament, juncker, MEPs, spitzenkandidaten |
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