Eurosphere roundup: “Europe?s eastern future at stake at the EU Vilnius summit

  Europe?s eastern future at stake at the EU Vilnius summit The aggressive attitude of Russia towards neighbour countries seeking closer EU integration indicates a new reality which the EU?s Eastern partnership must be ready to face, writes Alex Petriashvili.   Alex Petriashvili is the Georgian state minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration. On the East-West divide, … Read more

Eurosphere roundup: Bulgaria protests, Progress report: EU banking union, La Barroso bashing in France…

‘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