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The New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), which won the largest share of the vote in the Belgian federal elections in May, has traditionally combined a pro-EU platform with calls for greater autonomy for Flanders. Benjamin Leruth writes on the party’s decision to join …
Event A: five political groups in the European Parliament put forward a leading candidate for the post of Commission president before the European elections. Event B: EU citizens vote in European elections without knowing these candidates and without knowing how …
The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) gained the largest vote share and seat allocation in the UK’s European Parliament elections. Tim Bale writes that while UKIP’s strong polling ratings prior to the election had already prompted David Cameron’s Conservative Party to take …
In this Brussels Briefing on Trade Lénaïc Vaudin d’Imécourt, Trade Editor at EU Trade Insights, provides an overview of the European Union’s most pressing trade issues. Topics discussed include: – The WTO’s General Council meeting (May 12 and 13) – …
A crowd. A battalion. An army of about 50 000 people, most graduated from some of the highest ranked Universities in the EU, who have a high intellectual sensibility, speak several languages perfectly and have lived and worked in several …
If you tell people that the Eurobubble is in many ways similar to places like Wall Street, La Defense, Geneva or DC, they would probably nod in a very convinced way. If you tell them that it is almost as exotic as …
“I stopped meeting him for lunch because all he did was ask questions and he never said anything about himself,” a diplomat on the EU Council’s working group for post-Soviet countries once told about his friend from the Russian embassy. …
Reading the reports of the Bilderberg Group meeting last week set me thinking : we need Bilderberg in Brussels. The Bilderberg Group is the secretive annual conference of world leaders from the domains of business, politics, and finance. It met …
I’m not quite sure how I came to be reading the latest annual activity report of the Brussels Ixelles police force (Ixelles is a commune of Brussels, near the centre). However I did come across some interesting statistics. The report lists the …
The media’s reporting of the European Union is usually very factual and informative, which is good but at the same time lacks personal touch. This might be because there’s no single charismatic leader behind the union. According to some genius academic, …