EU summit: Leaked draft conclusions Herman Van Rompuy during a public appearance at the European Council building on Wednesday EU leaders are gearing up for their first summit in four months tomorrow ? the longest hiatus since the outbreak of the eurozone crisis three years ago. MAIN FOCUS: NSA scandal reaches France | 22/10/2013 The US’s NSA … Read more
EU approves opening new chapter with Turkey European Union?s General Affairs Council has confirmed the opening of Chapter 22, on regional policies, with Turkey Entre Turquie et Europe : la grande dérive Les Echos (France) no. 21547, lundi 21 octobre 2013, p. 1-9 Dominique Moïsi * Prise à revers par les révolutions arabes, la crise syrienne … Read more
Q&A: Migrants and asylum in the EU How the EU is coping with irregular migrants The Tragedy of Clandestine Immigration to the European Union Coffins containing the remains of the drowned in Lampedusa before their burial in various Italian cemeteries. Photo published on Twitter by Aleem Maqbool CDU?s first Muslim MP marks change Giousouf?s election to the … Read more
European Commission understood AKP’s democratic potential capacity in its early years belatedly, and now it downplays the increasingly obvious authoritarian tendencies, a harsher critique will appear belatedly, I assume… Here are the documents in Turkish and in English… AB Komisyonu İlerleme Raporu – 2013 Turkiye Strategy Paper – COM 700 – EN final TURKEY … Read more
Is Turkish intelligence or PM Erdoğan in question? An article published by The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 9 about Turkey?s Intelligence Chief Turkish PM?s support of Obamacare or deep-running friction with the US Facing a Republican-led impasse and a partial government Global chemical weapons watchdog OPCW wins Nobel Peace Prize The Organisation for the Prohibition … Read more
Turkey needs to be ?encouraged? to reopen Halki Seminary: EU Minister EU Minister Egemen Bağış has said Turkey needs to be ?encouraged? to reopen the Greek Orthodox Halki Seminary in Istanbul ********************* Turkey may face ?tough? EU report The upcoming annual Progress Report from the European Union for Turkey is expected to be the ?toughest? yet … Read more
Minister Bağış heads to EU for Progress Report Turkey?s EU Minister Egemen Bağış heads out to EU capital Brussels to try and convince the bloc to release a more favorable progress report on the country ************ Turkish aid in Somalia: the irresistible appeal of boots on the ground Donors prepared to risk working side by … Read more
France breaking own rules on Roma camps: ombudsman France’s official defender of citizens’ rights on Friday accused the government of flouting its own rules related to the expulsion of Roma migrants Eurostat: English reinforces its status as Europe?s ?lingua franca? Ninety four percent of upper secondary students learn English as a foreign language, according to new … Read more
Athens anti-Nazi protest turns violent Greek police fired tear gas at anti-fascist protesters who hurled petrol bombs and stones near the Athens headquarters of Golden Dawn on Wednesday (25 September) following the killing of an anti-racism rapper by a supporter of the far-right party. Thousands of Greeks marched towards the party’s offices earlier on … 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
Eight small European Countries are the happiest on Earth Just in time for the UN General Assembly, the UN secretariat has published the second World Happiness Report. On the basis of extensive polls in 156 countries it assesses how people rate their overall happiness in life. German election: don’t forget the Turkish vote(s)! There are … Read more
German parties wake up to growing migrant vote Arab Times (Kuwait) September 15, 2013, p. 16 AFP, Sept 14, Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel once alienated many immigrants by declaring ?multiculturalism has failed,? but as elections near her conservatives and other parties are scrambling to reach the growing migrant vote. The question, say analysts and … Read more
Norway?s centre-right wins election Result ends eight years of centre-left rule and makes Erna Solberg all but certain to be the oil-rich country?s new prime minister EU unfreezes regional aid funding for Hungary Hungary won access today (9 September) to ?2 billion in frozen EU development funds after convincing Brussels its management of projects met … Read more
Healthcare workers in demand across EU Data show sector is one bright spot as overall vacancies across the continent fall 4 per cent in past year as eurozone?s economic crisis continues Europeans punishing Greek Cyprus for abusing EU perks Greek Cypriots are receiving their comeuppance for abusing their position in the EU to punish Turks … Read more
The Tragic Link Between Economic Crisis and Suicide Europe’s four-year economic collapse has left an indelible scar on the continent, and the depressing data-points documenting its decline just keep rolling in. On Thursday, a Spanish suicide help-line reported that it saw a 30-percent increase in the number of calls it fielded in 2012. With … Read more