Today the European Union is no longer perceived as a problem-solver but as the cause of its crisis. To many the EU appears insufficiently transparent and too distant from its citizens. Yet its policy process is not only more open- on average- than any national system, but it also provides for more participatory opportunities. As […]
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The childish cry of “it’s all about me” has often been the subtext of British Eurosceptics’ campaigns against the European Union as well as the Europe-bashing seen in the British press.
The background has been terrible. But that may help explain why, in the foreground of our campaign to start a pan-European conversation about the future of our European Union, there has been so much enthusiasm, passion and determination.
On 10 November, David Cameron sent a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk, finally setting out his demands for renegotiation of the terms of British membership in the EU. But Tusk believes that an agreement cannot be reached at this week’s European Council. In his own letter to EU leaders on 7 December, Tusk […]
Historic #ParisAgreement success for @EUClimateAction – and now “Let’s get to work” Those working on European issues are not always great at communication. Twitter’s limit of 140 characters does not play to their strengths; 140 pages is more their style. But this tweet from Climate-KIC, the Commission-funded initiative to promote EU’s climate innovation, accurately sums up what happened in […]
I am an Italian university student living in London and a contributing editor to Europe & Me. I feel journalism coming from a single cultural perspective can never tell the whole story.
Time was when the most worrying people for British pro-Europeans were the highly vocal Eurosceptics, such as Nigel Farage of UKIP or John Redwood and Bill Cash of the Conservatives. Right now, that is no longer true, and not just because UKIP and Mr Farage are fading from view. Right now, the most worrying person for those advocating that Britain should stay in the European Union is David Cameron.
Both before and especially since the terrorist atrocities in Paris on November 13th, combative or enforced secularism has often been cited as one of the main reasons for the violent hatred manifested in the attacks. Some observers identify the roots of Islamist extremism in France in the ban of the hijab (veil) in 2004, seeing […]
World leaders have gathered in Paris for the annual UN climate summit, which this year coincides with the 11th session of the meeting of parties of the Kyoto Protocol. US President Barack Obama is there, as is Chinese President Xi Jinping. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius chairs the summit.
Please close Europe’s borders to migrants from Syria and the rest of the Middle East. Please stoke up Islamophobia. Please bomb Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq as a sign of your immediate defiance. Please avoid making any comprehensive or long-term agreement between the various new coalition allies to bring an end to the civil war in Syria or to improve the lives of Iraqis even in areas liberated from Islamic State.
Walking around Milan, London or Zurich, as I have been doing over the past couple of days, or indeed any other European city, has been to see displays of instant solidarity. The French flags and light displays of the tricolore are moving sights of fellow-feeling. This is certainly welcome. Yet, as the old English saying goes, “fine words butter no parsnips”. Actions need to follow, and are going to follow. The question before us is whether they will be the right actions.
The best thing India did after the co-ordinated bombing and shooting attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 that left 164 people dead was to take time to think and to grieve before it reacted. And its reactions, when they came, were with hindsight surprisingly measured and calm. That memory, that precedent, is the best example to keep in mind after the horrors of Paris.
Yesterday the UK media focused on David Cameron’s speech on the UK’s renegotiation demands, spelled out – more or less – in a formal letter to the president of the European Council Donald Tusk later in the day.
When Italian director Annalisa Piras started shooting The Great European Disaster Movie, the hard-hitting documentary drama exploring the crises besieging Europe, all was not well in Europe. But she is definitely not surprised by how much the situation has deteriorated since. “We made the film because we could already see the edge of the cliff that we […]
I am an Italian photographer who has been living in London for more than two years. I founded a website with the aim to connect Italians in London while telling the stories and experiences of our community.
This article was originally published on Britaly Post People are asking whether the EU can really function and make decisions on issues like the refugee flows, but above all they are wondering what the point of the EU is if it cannot deal with collective problems like this. A British-Italian team has now launched an initiative […]
I'm a Polish journalist who's been living in London for the past 13 years. I collaborate with Cooltura, a weekly magazine for the Polish community in the UK.
I love shooting personal photography projects, and I make sure to put aside time for them between my commercial and editorial assignments. A couple of years ago, moved by frustration about the one-sided immigration debate in the UK, I decided to explore the lives of a group of British people living in Spain, to bring […]
Former editor-in-chief of The Economist Bill Emmott exec produced The Great European Disaster Movie and is the chair of the Wake Up Foundation which created Wake Up Europe! This article, announcing the birth of the campaign, was originally published on Politico.