
Europe’s drought the worst in 500 years – report
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
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

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