Brussels is slowly coming to life and waking up after the summer break. In truth, though, perhaps it never really went to sleep. It’s been a long and exhausting “break”, with all manner of stories jostling for headline-space in the …
September is going to be an important month for the Eurozone. Or so said Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, when we interviewed him for Debating Europe: September is going to be a huge month. We need to have …
In discussing our recent post on nuclear energy in Europe, we received some criticism on Facebook for being too “biased against renewable energies”. Never ones to shy away from debate, we asked our commenter to expand on his criticism so …
Last year, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the international business editor of the Daily Telegraph, argued that Germany had two options in responding to the Eurozone crisis. Either it should accept that it must bail-out the “Club Med” countries of Southern Europe, or …
On 11 March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 struck the east coast of Japan, triggering a tsunami that killed over 15,000 people. Amidst the ruins, as the full scale of the disaster was slowly dawning, media coverage started to …
Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator and associate editor at The Financial Times. He is one of foremost economic commentators in the world. He has been called “arguably the most trusted pundit of the current economic crisis.” Politicians, economists and …
Last month, we looked at a suggestion from Peter Schellink about moving away from a focus on economic growth and towards a new paradigm emphasising quality of life and “community wellness”. We’ve had an earlier suggestion in our forum from the …
We had a suggestion in our forums from Maria from Portugal, calling for the EU to implement a “huge investment” in greater energy and resource efficiency. We decided to take this suggestion to a range of policy-makers and politicians, to …
Over the last week, we’ve been looking at whether or not the EU should be investing more in research and development (R&D) to try and provoke the creation of an “innovation union” (see here, here and here for earlier posts on …
Following up on Javier from Spain’s question about the need for a dedicated modernisation drive in Europe (also, see here and here), we spoke to Cypriut politician Averof Neophytou – vice-president of the centre-right Cyprus Democratic Rally Party – and …
