Last Comments - From Europe
In almost the whole of Europe the concomitance of the crisis, the austerity policies, the cuts to welfare and the unemployment rates are fuelling the wave of Right-wing populism, which has by now stably conquered the centre
(read more) Furio Ferraresi - 17/05/2012
Although today the European Union is on many people’s lips, it is easy to speak of its ‘crisis:’ the economic and financial one, the lack of growth and employment, the lack of democracy. So the austerity
(read more) Edoardo Bressanelli - 14/05/2012
Back in April 2007 when Poland and Ukraine took on the joint organization of the European Football Championship for 2012, the EU member countries saw this as another sign that the European Neighbours Policy was working
(read more) Serena Giusti - 14/05/2012
Last Comments - From the World
On top of the recent celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of Evian, the agreement that put an end to the Franco-Algerian bloodbath and paved the way for independence on 5th July 1962, Algeria is now called upon to elect
(read more) Leila El Houssi - 10/05/2012
Had it not been for the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the global recession since 2008 would have been far deeper. When the BRIC term was coined in 2001, it was little more than a vision of an uncertain future,
(read more) Andrea Goldstein - 30/04/2012
2012 has started with a brisk stepping up of relations between Latin America and Europe. Though some points of conflict across the Atlantic have been stirred by a return to the fore of the smouldering Falkland/Malvinas issue,
(read more) Francesco Ragno - 30/04/2012
Last Comments - Economy / Institutions
While many Swedes are sceptical about European economic and monetary integration and they are hardly confident about the recovery of the Euro area (as has been illustrated in a recent article on this web site), several
(read more) Giulia Guazzaloca - 12/04/2012
Traditionally the countries of Scandinavia have always tended to be suspicious of European fiscal and monetary union, although their economies are geared to high value-added exports and hence benefit undeniably from the
(read more) Umberto Marengo - 05/04/2012
March 2012 is an historical date for Greece and for Europe. After two years of uncertainty, suffering and a clumsy rescue attempt in 2010 by the Euroland partners, Greece has embarked on the road of partial bankruptcy, the
(read more) Gianpaolo Rossini - 29/03/2012
Last Comments - Elections / Referendum
The profound Greek social and political crisis could not have been solved almost by miracle by a general election that has indeed turned out to be chiefly a way to vent the condemnation of the political class that has
(read more) Rigas Raftopoulos - 10/05/2012
Thirty-one years after celebrating François Mitterrand’s historical arrival at the Élysée, on 10th May 1981, on Sunday night the Left wingers regained the Place de la Bastille, in Paris, to
(read more) Riccardo Brizzi - 08/05/2012
The French presidential election falls in the fifth year of world economic crisis and seven years after depression set in for the European project with the 2005 referenda which threw out the European Constitution. The
(read more) Massimo Faggioli - 03/05/2012
