Eurosphere roundup: Croatia, the new member… A day with the Eurocrats

Library of the European Parliament’s Blog: Croatia ? sources of information For the occasion of Croatian accession to the European Union on the 1 July 2013 and becoming the 28th member state, we have prepared this document as introductory information to sources that are already available in Library of European Parliament Croatia: President Plays Beethoven to … Read more

Eurosphere roundup: Standard & Poor’s threat over EU core countries; Merkel & Sarkozy “to discipline the EU”; news from euroblogging…

MAIN FOCUS: Standard & Poor’s threatens bailout fund | 07/12/2011 from euro|topics The US rating agency Standard & Poor’s threatened on Tuesday to downgrade the credit rating of the EFSF bailout fund. Fifteen euro countries are now also having to worry that they may lose their top credit standings. With its move Standard & Poor’s … Read more

Eurosphere roundup: EU court’s historic rule on filtering attemps; EU policy blogs; and more…

EU court rules policing the Internet is illegal (News) from EurActiv.com The European Court of Justice issued yesterday (24 November) a historic ruling establishing that member states cannot impose the filtering of the Internet for the purpose of preventing illegal downloads of copyrighted files. EU policy blogs: There are some indeed! (updated) from Ideas on … Read more

Eurosphere roundup: Eurobonds and more…

Eurobonds or ECB? Either way Germany has to pay the bill by Open Europe blog team As we argued in a recent papers which looked at the short term options for the eurozone, the option of risk pooling via Eurobonds, or the option of allowing the ECB to become the lender of last resort, both … Read more

Social democrats win the elections in Denmark with Denmark’s first female premier- EU Research Topics at #UACES2011 and more from Europe…

#UACES2011 in Cambridge: A look at some interesting EU research from Ideas on Europe by Ronny Patz I must say that I very much enjoyed the UACES conference in Cambridge last week, especially some of the finished and ongoing research I was able to witness. Listening to the presentations, discussions and interventions, I?d say some … Read more

Euro roundup: EU labour migration, Germany losing friends, Europe’s carbon trade, London protests etc…

Germany flexes muscle, loses friends from FP Passport by Cameron Abadi At next week’s EU summit in Brussels, you can expect the usual photos of backslapping European leaders sharing broad laughs and whispered asides. But behind closed doors, things are likely to be a lot frostier: by all indications, personal relations among EU power players … Read more