May 21, 2013
The online edition of German weekly Der Spiegel reports on “secret” plans by EU heads of state and government to stick to the ‘one country, one EU Commissioner’ principle, despite the number of Commissioners being set to rise to 28 following Croatia’s …
Posted by Open Europe blog team
|
austerity, bureaucracy, commission, Commissioners, croatia, Der Spiegel, EU budget, Lisbon Treaty |
April 25, 2013
EU ‘grassroots’ engagementBeyond the spotlight of high-profile crisis meetings of EU leaders exists a very different community. A group that can almost be likened to a sub-culture. They meet in over-sized buildings in Brussels or at conferences and hot…
Posted by Open Europe blog team
|
brussels, bureaucracy, civil society, EESC, EU quangos, weird uptight federalist stuff |
February 13, 2013
The reintroduction of the EU’s special levy tax is good newsIn all the discussion of the EU budget for 2014 – 2020 there is one small item that has been overlooked – the welcome reintroduction of the special tax levy on EU officials’ pay…
Posted by Open Europe blog team
July 22, 2011
On 4 July 2011, a well-known European passed away.Otto von Habsburg, the oldest son of Austria’s last Emperor and the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary was praised by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso as “a great European” which “ha…
Posted by Open Europe blog team
Open Europe is an independent think tank contributing bold new thinking to the debate about the direction of the EU.
