On Thursday, July 17, 2014, a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet carrying 298 people was shot down over eastern Ukraine — allegedly by pro-Russia separatists. Residents in the area described bodies falling from the sky and landing in their own backyards. VICE …
European Interns’ Day
Interns, young professionals as well as employers, officials from EU institutions, and civil society organisations advocating for youth employment, will take over Place Luxembourg to protest in front of the Parliament against interns’ precarious working conditions in Europe. With youth unemployment …
French government & Marine Le Pen
French President François Hollande has suffered from consistently low approval ratings and his Socialist Party received exceptionally disappointing results in both the country’s local and European elections earlier this year. As John Gaffney writes, however, the main opposition party, the UMP, has …
Youth, Cannabis & the EU Bubble
The EU Bubble is a place of contrast. The lucky interns who managed to gain work experience at the European Parliament earn so little that most fall below the poverty line. As a stagiaire the youth are often put through …
Sweden and the EU
Sweden joined the European Union in 1995 following a successful referendum, however the country also rejected membership of the euro in a referendum in 2003. Malin Stegmann McCallion writes on the development of Swedish public opinion toward the EU and the integration …
Strengthening EU border security
On 30 June, a fishing boat containing the bodies of thirty people was found heading for Italy, once again highlighting the problem of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. As Nina Perkowski writes, the incident came at a time when Italian Prime Minister …
EU-Russian relations further strained
Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine signed agreements with the EU on 27 June aimed at facilitating closer co-operation. Sebastian Schäffer writes on the impact the agreements will have for the economy of each state, the wider foreign policy issues, and for EU-Russian relations. …
Nigel Farage – UKIP’s Puppet?
Today’s #trews looks at footage of Nigel Farage’s rant at the Euro Parliament this week. Is he a puppet? You decide
REPORT: EU encounter of the third kind
On July 3rd, the European Union community made a contact of the third kind with an alien proclaiming to be the Alien Messiah. That day, the weather was sunny but often breezy, one could feel something was just not right …
Jean-Claude Juncker’s key priority Digital Technology
The ‘digital economy’ is often put forward as a model for future economic development in Europe, but how should this be structured? Ann Mettler writes that in many respects the European economy is already ‘digital’ and that digital technologies offer a key …