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Yesterday the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) got the most votes for the European Parlament in Germany, but they suffered some losses like their sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU). The Social Democratic Party (SPD) improved their...
European elections in Hungary were held less than two months after the landslide victory of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party. Two things were very clear from opinion polls: turnout would be very low and Fidesz would win big. The most important...
Austria on the edge. Italian plans. Higher salaries for officers. Successful elections. Black sheep are growing in numbers. Austrian Central bank governor Ewald Nowotny admitted that his country might not meet the 3% deficit rule as well. He...
On May 1st, 2004, right before the centennial of the first Young Estonia almanac, Estonia became a fully-fledged member of the European Union. Gustav Suits, a poet, had once famously called upon the readers of the almanac by saying, “Let us...
Ghost towns. Spanish minimum. Broken rules. This week’s headlines from Europe are dominated by the wild situation in Ukraine. The man with a gold-plated toilet brush and a pirate ship is lost somewhere, and so there is green light for...
In December 2013 EU finance ministers reached agreement on the guidelines of a Single Resolution Mechanism for the banking union. The Single Resolution Mechanism is to accompany the Single Supervisory Mechanism. The Single Resolution Mechanism...
Two think-tanks, The Centre for Economic and Market Analyses (CZ) and F. A. Hayek Foundation (SK) joined to write a study about chosen EU regulations and their impact on economies of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The text was presented to...
Reforms from Florence. We want no brave heart in the EU. The Swiss are saving up while the Greeks score. Italy has a new Prime Minister since Enrico Letta was ousted in a vote of his own party. Italy’s politics is part of its pop-culture,...
Westerners do not want Easterners; the Swiss do not want anyone; luxury cars for the Portuguese; Reding’s karma. It happens that even an American politician may forget that they too may be bugged. The U.S. diplomat for European Affairs...
The energy policy of EU, especially its continuing support of renewables, has been rather hot topic in the past few years, with the chief reason being its impact on the electricity prices not only in the Czech Republic but other member states...
