Julia Reda, German Pirate Party member of the European Parliament It’s a summer day in one of Sweden’s most popular holiday areas, but I’m not here to enjoy the sunshine. I’m about to go to jail. Västervik Norra, a medium-security …
Not one European city in the top 10 for tech talent
Silvia Merler, affiliate fellow at Bruegel think tank Two recent LinkedIn analyses show some interesting facts about work-related migration in the 21st century and how this reshapes the world’s economic environment. The data shows that European countries tend to …
EU funding for civil society organisations
Rosa Sanchez Salgado is an Assistant Professor of European Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam. Her previous research has principally focused on efforts by EU institutions, above all the Commission, to shape civil society organisations. A number of civil society organisations …
EU considers response to Russia’s agricultural sanctions
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union issued a Press Release today concerning its Russia sanctions, stating that: 1) The grounds for the imposition of restrictive measures against the Russian Federation “remain valid”. …
West East European Political divide
Johan Hellström is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Umeå University. His research interests are in comparative politics, political methodology, political parties and party systems in Europe, political representation and accountability, public opinion, and European politics. …
The Swedish government is set to lose the 2014 general election
Anders Sundell is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science and Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg. Sweden will hold a general election on 14 September. With one month to go until the vote, Anders Sundell presents …
Tobacco lobbying
University of Oxford, Prof. David Stuckler A study has tracked how the dominance of language that first appeared in tobacco industry’s submissions gradually crept into the final drafts of the European tobacco directive passed by the European parliament earlier this …
Can You Speak Commission?
Susannah Savage, Columnist @Swizz677 “At what time will be ze reunion?” my friend Taran asks me in a thick French accent, which would be cute were Taran not from Leicester. The European Commission goes one step beyond the acronyms, abbreviations and …
Foreign Affairs Council calls for an Extraordinary meeting
During the roundtable meeting the European ministers will discuss the situation in the Southern neighbourhood (notably Iraq) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCZzpmbEcs and the Eastern neighbourhood (Ukraine)
One Russian’s reaction to economic sanctions
At the EU Bubble we have reported a lot about western side of economic sanctions, but little about Russia’s reaction to the sanctions. One russian man was so furious by the economic sanctions imposed upon his nation that he smashed an …