What is Europe for you? What does it mean to be young and European in 2014? An exchange of views between bloggers across the continent. Can Europe make it? has the pleasure of introducing you to our guest columnists for the run-up to the European elections 2014.
- Europe and me: imagining community
- I believe in Europe: a Roma perspective
- Europe is anthropologically interesting, but lacks awareness
- I wish to see more Europe, a more participative Europe
- I want to know whether the political class in Brussels is any of different from that in Westminster
- A Europe that isn’t any more and isn’t yet
Europe and me: imagining community
Where is Horizon 2020 leading us?
As the year 2014 gets underway, the Europe of Knowledge also begins a new phase with the launch of Horizon 2020. Now that the budget wrangling is over and the calls for the first grant proposals have been published, we will finally begin to discover what Horizon 2020 does to reshape the research environment in Europe. While we do have clear statements (Commission 2011c) about its bringing together the instruments for research and innovation funding under a single umbrella which covers the complete innovation cycle; simplifying and unifying many of the administrative rules and procedures; and seeking to promote the competiveness of the EU with a strong linguistic flavoring from the Innovation Union discourse; still, there are far more questions than answers
EU election fault lines: The free movement of labour Cutting across concerns about immigration, wages and social dumping, the issue of free movement of labour is a hot topic not only in the UK, but also in most of the old EU 15 countries, and that will have a serious impact in the upcoming European elections, writes Julian Priestley. Julian Priestley is a former secretary general of the European Parliament and co-author of ‘Our Europe, Not Theirs‘. Eurostat to revise EU’s annual GDP figures higher
The European Union’s statistics office will revise upwards the EU’s annual gross domestic product figures by 2.4 percentage points when it switches to a new accounting standard in September, the European Commission said on Thursday (16 January). The change will affect all past GDP figures and future data series, the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat said. The switch to the European System of Accounts 2010, replacing the old ESA 1995, is part of a worldwide move to a new accounting system called System of National Accounts 2008, already implemented in the United States last August. |
MAIN FOCUS: Opinion divided on Hollande’s reform plans | 16/01/2014
French President François Hollande has received the support of the European Commission for his reform plans. Praise also came on Wednesday from the French employers’ associations, while the unions remained sceptical and some voiced harsh criticism. Commentators are also divided: while some hope Hollande will give the French new confidence, others fear he will bleed the country dry
Migration adds to UK-Polish gulf
Cameron comment on not repatriating child benefit stokes scepticism of many Poles who doubted the UK?s commitment either to Poland or the EU
Parliament seeks tougher controls on Troika
MEPs have opened an investigation into the role of the Troika in the debt crisis with a view to strengthening its democratic legitimacy and the involvement of the European Parliament in its work,EurActiv France reports. Four years after the start of the debt crisis in Europe, the economic and financial committee of the European Parliament has started a series of hearings of the main actors of the Troika – the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – who will have to explain how they managed the crisis in the four countries where they were the primary lenders, Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Cyprus. |
Greece and the European elections: a preview
What is to happen in Greece in the forthcoming European elections, which, not without a certain irony of history, will take place while this country holds the EU presidency? Euro elections landscape, 2014.
Euro elections 2014 bloggers introduce themselves: Part Two
What is Europe for you? What does it mean to be young and European in 2014? An exchange of views between bloggers across the continent. Can Europe make it? has the pleasure of introducing you to our guest columnists for the run-up to the European elections 2014.
Hollande brings Europe back to top of France’s priority list
European issues occupied a great deal of François Hollande?s long-awaited speech to the press yesterday (14 January), with the restart of the EU’s Franco-German engine and strengthened fiscal and social convergence in the eurozone at the centre of the French president’s reform agenda. Although the press conference was mostly expected because of his alleged love affair with French actress Julie Gayet, Hollande?s speech nonetheless focused almost exclusively on the economic reforms awaiting the country. Germany: sleepwalking into Europe? The much needed debate on Europe is unlikely to happen in the German run-up to the European elections. But instead, a controversy pro or against the Euro might well take place, should the new right-wing Alternative for Germany prove effective. Euro elections landscape, 2014. How European? France, ahead of the European elections European elections have never really been about Europe. Case in point: France, where the electoral campaign reeks of popular resentment, personal ambitions and widespread misconceptions. Euro elections landscape, 2014 |
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