#Europe agenda: Drought hit Europe’s rivers and crops this summer (the queen is not in my agenda(!)

Cattle in parched fields in Tinténiac, north-west France
Weeks of baking heat have caused big problems for Europe’s food producers and river traffic.

Europe’s drought the worst in 500 years – report

Researchers say two-thirds of the continent is under some sort of drought warning.

by Gilles Pittoors

 

Although an increasing number of political decisions are taken at the European Union (EU) level, national politics remains the prime arena for democratic debate. This deprives the EU of a key source of democratic legitimacy, while showing how national politics are increasingly ‘ruling the void‘. In my article for JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, I argue that national

political parties

can provide a solution to both challenges by organisationally linking the national and European levels.


European inflation hits 25-year high, driven by energy spike

The annual inflation rate in the 19-country Eurozone was 8.9 percent in July, with high energy prices and food contributing the


Outrage after Hungary PM Viktor Orban’s ‘pure Nazi’ speech

Orban has been strongly criticised for speaking out against creating ‘peoples of mixed race’.

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