Jennifer Dunham is a project manager for the annual Freedom of the Press and Freedom in the World reports at Freedom House, a U.S.-based independent watchdog organisation dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world. Despite being viewed as …
UKIP’s appeasement of Russia
MEP @Nigel_Farage : "If we want a war with #Putin then we are going the right way'. debate on #Ukraine & #Russia live http://t.co/sVeSegVEOe — AFET Committee Press (@EP_ForeignAff) September 16, 2014 Ukip describe EU support for #Ukraine as …
WikiLeaks exposes chats and list of countries being spied through FinFisher
WikiLeaks has exposed secret conversation and list of countries who had their citizens being spied by their own governments through German based Gamma Group International’ FinFisher spyware. In a series 4 of SpyFiles documents, WikiLeaks published that Slovakia, Mongolia, Qatar, South Africa, Bahrain, …
The Pope’s lobbyist
The EU Bubble Original The Pope’s foreseen visit to the European Parliament in November is not merely a symbolic occurrence. Many atheists would just wave their hand away at the thought of it. However, the pope is the head of …
Taking the Temperature in Brussels
Roderick Parkes heads the EU Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. In recent days, EU leaders have named a new chair of the European Council, the body that brings together EU heads of state and government, appointed the next high …
The masterful Jean-Claude Juncker
@AllieRenison is head of Europe and Trade Policy at the Institute of Directors. For all of the protestations about Jean Claude Juncker’s unsuitability for what is, ultimately, the EU’s top job (sorry, Angela Merkel), the unveiling of his new Commission yesterday has confirmed …
Why transparency in TTIP talks is a must for all of us!
Monique Goyens, Director General, BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation TTIP not just trade as usual … While BEUC, the umbrella organisation for 40 consumer organisations in 31 countries, does not traditionally focus on trade related issues – not because trade …
Europe is entering the ‘age of the referendum’
Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law. Referendums have become increasingly common occurrences in European states in recent decades. Stephen Tierney writes on some of the potential benefits …
UN and EU add six people to Al Qaida sanctions list
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP On 4 August 2014 the UN Security Council amended the entries for 2 people on the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee’s list of persons, groups and entities to whom UN …
Catalonia and Jordi Pujol
Alejandro Quiroga is a Reader of Spanish History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology in Newcastle University and a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain). His research interests include Spanish history and politics, …