No agreement in Greek eurozone talks BBC News | Europe | World Edition Greek and eurozone officials have left a seven-hour meeting without even basic agreement on how to proceed in talks over the country’s debt crisis. Greek debt talks fail, next meeting on Monday EurActiv.com Greece’s new leftist government and its international creditors failed to … Read more
France and Islamic feminism: intersectionality in the Republic The fact is that Islamic feminists in western countries, and especially in France, struggle with identity affiliations and fight against multiple forms of oppression that bind them to post-colonial and anti-racist movements. VIDEO: ‘Apocalyptic scenes’ in Ukraine’s Kiev At least nine people, including two police officers, have been … Read more
Turkish PM Erdoğan ?assures? EU he will respect rule of law PM Erdoğan ?gave assurances? during his first visit to Brussels since 2009, European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso says following a meeting Turkish government would show off if trucks were loaded with humanitarian aid to Syria: BDP leader If the trucks were … Read more
UK aims to become centre for Islamic finance Global Islamic finance market is valued at $1.3tn and is growing faster than the conventional banking sector Germany hits back at US criticism Germany hits back at the US Treasury’s criticism of its export-led growth model, describing the attack as “incomprehensible”. Spying leaks should not interrupt cooperation with … 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
MAIN FOCUS: Shift to the right in France | 11/10/2013 The far-right Front National could emerge as France’s strongest party from the European elections in May 2014, according to the results of a poll published by the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur on Wednesday. The party is benefiting from the mainstream parties’ lack of ideas, commentators write, fearing that France’s shift … Read more
Commission floats ?ideas? to deepen the EU?s social side Social policy indicators such as unemployment could soon form part of the European Commission?s regular monitoring of EU countries? economic and budgetary imbalances under plans floated by Brussels today to deepen the social dimension of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Presenting the proposal on Wednesday … Read more
Europe and Turkey: In search of a new world Some EU governments act in contradiction with a strategic vision for the common European values and interest when they block Turkey?s accession talks, writes Kader Sevinç. Kader Sevinç is the Representative to the EU of CHP (the Republican Peoples? Party, which is the largest opposition force … Read more
France Sees Great Potential in the Chinese Tourism Industry The statistics this year for French tourism are a bit fuzzy. Minister of Tourism Sylvia Pinel remains cautious with the numbers while the results from Protourisme, the reference point for tourism studies, look gloomy [fr]. Vassiliou: ‘Europeans should get out of their chairs more often’ … Read more
Barroso warns on EU political instability José Manuel Barroso warns against complacency saying progress is being put in peril by leaders attempting to return to ?business as usual? Q&A: The Catalan Way explained Why are Catalans taking part in a human chain this Wednesday? The Catalan newspaperAra has produced a series of questions … 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
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
‘Le Barroso bashing’ continues in France If you thought the wave of French attacks on European Commission President José Manuel Barroso was ebbing away, you were wrong. Today, it was the turn of French Socialist MP Claude Bartolone – who’s also the President of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament – … Read more