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What do YOU make of Barroso’s State of the Union Speech?

EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso gave his 2011 “State of the Union” speech in front of the European Parliament…

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Could the EU be a free-trade superpower?

Doha is dead. The current negotiations at the World Trade Organisation has been dragging on for just shy of a…

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Are Europe’s banks in crisis?

Slowly, painfully slowly, a plan seems to be coming together to save the Eurozone. Wolfgang Münchau, writing in The Financial Times,…

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Do we need an EU-US free trade agreement?

It’s safe to say that both the US and the EU are going through something of a rough patch at…

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More EU austerity or a “new Marshall plan”?

Debating Europe recently had a suggestion sent in from Paul in the UK, who argued that the strategy of austerity…

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Should we have a Financial Transactions Tax?

Last week, the finance ministers of France and Germany wrote to the European Commission to voice their continued support for…

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Ask your question to Herman Van Rompuy

Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, is preparing to address the UN General Assembly next week. After a…

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Do EU copyright laws need to be harmonised?

We’ve been having a lively discussion on the effects of digital piracy in Europe this week, including some debate on…

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How should Europe respond to piracy?

Despite all the obvious economic benefits offered by the internet, digital piracy is proving to be a huge collective pain…

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