Brussels View
Friday, June 11, 2010
Guy Verhofstadt: the Saviour of the European Commission?
Former long standing Belgian Prime-Minister Guy Verhofstadt is using his current position as President of the Liberal Group in the European Parliament, to play patron to the EC, which has lost power since the Lisbon Treaty came into force and also due to its lack of ambition and sufficient quality
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Even Pipelines give the Blues
The day before the Polish President, his wife and dozens of top Polish political and military leaders died in a plane crash, Russian and EU officials marked the start of the construction of Nord Stream gas pipeline: a first chunk of 48-inch-diameter steel pipe was laid on the Baltic Sea bed.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
EU - US summits ‘only when necessary’ …
After cancellation of the planned EU-US May summit in Madrid, a policy-director within the US State Department said, during a forum in Brussels last Friday, that EU-US summits will no longer be organised automatically. A second blow by Obama for his European friends?
Friday, March 19, 2010
Merkel plays it tough and … makes a U-turn
Mrs Merkel placed the burden on Greece, to implement an austerity program designed to slash the budget deficit equal to 12,7 percent of its GDP. An aid package, as proposed by some finance ministers of eurozone, is for her not the right answer: "the turnaround must come from Greece".
More on
- EU memberstates and Commission mangle Lady Ashton - Thursday, March 11, 2010
- No Obama in Madrid, no Swift agreement with the US - Wednesday, February 24, 2010
- European Parliament shows its new muscles! - Friday, February 12, 2010
- Commotion in Brussels and Madrid: Obama rejects EU-US summit - Friday, February 05, 2010
- EU-funded think tanks defend their credibility - Friday, January 29, 2010
- Lisbon Treaty: more power for the European Parliament - Wednesday, December 02, 2009
- Decisive action on zombie banks from…the European Commission - Wednesday, November 11, 2009
- Jose Manuel Obama: Yes We Can - Friday, July 10, 2009
- Business as usual in the European Parliament? - Thursday, June 18, 2009
- British MEPs can make extra million from claiming allowances - Tuesday, May 12, 2009
- Cost of EU membership 'ten times higher' than official figures - Tuesday, April 28, 2009
- No Lisbon Treaty, no further enlargement - Monday, April 13, 2009
- Financial crisis makes Euro popular! - Wednesday, November 12, 2008
- Entrepreneurship with a Human Face - Friday, September 12, 2008
- European Union: united we stand? - Friday, September 12, 2008
- Expo Zaragoza - Monday, May 19, 2008
- Who’s happy with this EU? - Friday, May 02, 2008
- Global Top 10 of worst polluted places - Tuesday, September 18, 2007
- Developing knowledge/skills to do business in Japan-Korea - Tuesday, April 25, 2006
- 3RD INTERNATIONAL FORUM - Monday, August 22, 2005
- 3RD INTERNATIONAL FORUM - Monday, August 22, 2005
- Stampede mars IKEA London opening - Monday, February 14, 2005
- Are You Up to the Job? Genetically? - Wednesday, October 27, 2004
- Croatia to join the EU - Monday, October 11, 2004
- Science proves that love is blind - Monday, October 11, 2004
- US youths ever more on the net - Monday, October 11, 2004
