A European Commissioner to veto national budgets: We are being alienated from...
In an interview for the esteemed German newspaper Der Spiegel, Mr Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank discussed among others the following (full interview here): SPIEGEL: Finance...
View ArticleThe European Parliament made a bold step towards European democracy
On Thursday November 22, the European Parliament voted in favor of a resolution that aims at improving the democratic status of the European Union. The resolution concerned the elections to the...
View ArticleA failure of ideology not of Germany
The Reichstag building in Berlin. Picture credit: Wikipedia The narrative that unites most anti-austerity people is the one which asserts that the source of their hardships, of the impoverishment and...
View ArticleMay 2013 lead us from the Year of Citizens to the Union of Citizens
The graphic at the official page of the Commission dedicated to the European Year of citizens. Picture credit: © European Commission This is my last post for the year 2012; a year that has been the...
View ArticleEurope did not cause the crisis in Cyprus
The kind of default reaction of many Cypriot opinion molders and citizens to the latest decisions on the country’s macroeconomic adjustment programme, has been to put the brunt of the blame for...
View ArticleFootnotes on Jürgen Habermas lecture in Leuven about the European crisis
On April 26 2013, I had the great honor to attend a lecture on Democracy, Solidarity, and the European Crisis by one of the foremost thinkers of our age, Professor Jürgen Habermas. The event, which...
View ArticleThe meta ta politika of Europe
Fellow citizen Ralf Grahn (@RalfGrahn) recently suggested that European bloggers should consider producing an article under the twitter hashtag #MyEurope, in light of the commemoration of Europe Day,...
View ArticleCritique on the ex cathedra pronouncement of Barroso that there is no eurocrisis
The present author finds it pertinent to express the feeling of amazement that is always born in him following an exposition to the Olympian pronouncements of the European Commission’s President, Mr....
View ArticleThe German Constitutional Court and the inherent contradictions of the OMT
On June 11 and 12, 2013 the German Constitutional Court will be considering the legal foundations of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) of the European...
View ArticleEurope beyond and without federalism
Ideology and political orientation are inseparably attached to the historical-cultural context that engendered and sustained them. To valorize the methods and objectives of a given system of values, as...
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