MAIN FOCUS: Heavy cost of corruption for Europe | 04/02/2014 Corruption costs the EU economy around 120 billion euros per year, the EU’s first Anti-Corruption Report published on Monday reveals. According to a Eurobarometer survey, more than half of the respondents believe that bribery has increased in the last three years. Commentators call on … Read more
Ukraine’s Black Saturday Yesterday was Black Friday in the west ? people out shopping; in Ukraine, today will be remembered as Black Saturday ? people running for their lives. Have the Ukrainians been shopped by the Europeans? Ukraine: Understanding the #Euromaidan Protests It may seem to many that the #Euromaidan protests in Ukraine grew out … Read more
From a #euromaidan in Ukraine How do we (and Ukrainians) make sense of what is happening in Ukraine? Is the hashtag #euromaidan of any help in understanding the choice being made between the EU and Russia, or yet another symbol of a general failure to understand anything? Truncheon-wielding police break up Ukraine pro-EU rally, injuring … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: Austerity and hope in Ireland | 16/10/2013 The Irish government presented the budget for 2014 on Tuesday – the seventh austerity budget in a row. Prime Minister Enda Kenny stressed that the top priority was to create jobs and exit the bailout programme. Ireland’s success is proof that the stringent austerity policy is the right … Read more
The political consequences of a Greek rapper?s murder The idea is powerfully simple: on the basis of existing evidence, could a case be made ? the government asked ? that Golden Dawn is, in fact, an organised criminal group? In Bed With Dracula ? A Grand Coalition With Angela Merkel Stefan Collignon The … Read more
Golden Dawn loses support after rapper killing: poll Support for Greece’s Golden Dawn has fallen by 2.5 percentage points after the fatal stabbing of an anti-racism rapper by a supporter of the far-right party and most Greeks believe it threatens democracy, a poll showed on Monday. The poll by Rass for the Eleftheros Typos … Read more