Yesterday was a big night for Marine Le Pen’s anti-EU Front National, which emerged as the main winner of the first round of the French mayoral elections. The party won an outright victory in Hénin-Beaumont, a former mining city in northern France, a…
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EP elections, EP2014, FN, France, Front National, Hollande, Le Pen, Sarkozy, UMP |
March 19, 2014
Ipsos Mori has this week published an interesting poll on public attitudes* in ten EU member states. Across the ten countries as a whole relatively few people want to leave the EU outright (18% on average), but the single most popular option …
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anti-austerity, austerity, britain in europe, British diplomacy, euro, France, French public opinion, German public opinion, germany, poll, public opinion, repatriation of powers |
February 18, 2014
With the European Parliament elections approaching, the number of EU-related opinion polls is growing. Beyond the mere voting intentions, these surveys help get a clearer picture of how citizens see Europe in various countries.Two separate opinion poll…
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#EUReform, EP elections, eu, EU elections, France, Hollande, schengen, Socialist Party, UMP |
January 31, 2014
David Cameron and François Hollande have just held their joint press conference following the Anglo-French defence summit in Oxfordshire. Predictably, though, most of the questions focused instead on Cameron’s EU renegotiation strategy and the prospec…
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anglo-french cooperation, banking union, Cameron, defence, EU treaty change, eurozone, France, Francois Hollande, Maastricht Treaty, UK; |
Okay, we know this is not exactly breaking news (the original story is from September 2012), but it came to our attention again and we felt compelled to post on it.Back in the heyday of the eurozone crisis, Le Parisien interviewed Guy Abeille (see pict…
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euro, eurozone, eurozone bailouts, France, Greece, Guy Abeille, Maastricht Treaty, Mitterrand, Spain |
December 19, 2013
Our #EUwargames exercise has already received extensive coverage, but today we’ll publish our own, widely anticipated, analysis of the simulation (within the next hour or so).In the Times, Open Europe’s Director Mats Persson trails the analysis. Bringi…
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Cameron, Downing Street, EU reform, EUwargames, France, game theory, Home Office, renegotiation, structural funds, War game |
November 5, 2013
The European Commission today released its autumn 2013 economic forecast. The EC broadly sees a recovery in the eurozone, but does highlight that it remains fragile and that unemployment is expected to increase while further austerity also seems likely…
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Cyprus, European Commission, eurozone, eurozone crisis, France, germany, italy, Olli Rehn, Portugal, Spain |
Well, this one snowballed quickly. The number of countries either implicated – or feeling the need to comment on – “Handygate” (as the Germans call it) is growing by the minute. Here’s a round-up.Germany: The fallout over allegations that the NSA …
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Cameron, Carl Bildt, Costos, France, germany, Greenwald, hacking, handy-gate, Hollande, italy, Merkel, NSA, Obama, Sikorski, Snowden, Spain |
October 23, 2013
It’s that time of year when the European Commission either assigns gold stars to or puts black marks against member states based on how they implement EU rules. The Commission notes that the number of infringement procedures opened against EU…
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August 30, 2013
Europe has reacted with surprise – and a degree of shock – to David Cameron’s defeat in the House of Commons, which has de facto ruled out British participation in any potential military operation in Syria, at least for now. Here is a first round-up.In…
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Ashton, Cameron, EEAS, eu, France, germany, Hollande, House of Commons, italy, Syria, westerwelle |
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