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EUROPE: European Union Member States, will need conventional energy sources
2007-09-16 22:31:00 On current trends, the European Union will rely... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
Of anthems and European identity
2007-09-08 00:22:00 It?s time that Europeans learned their Anthem. But there?s a problem. Because of member-states? fear of a federalized Europe, the EU anthem doesn?t have any words. As clouds gather over the parsing of a ?Reform Treaty? to replace the defeated ?Treaty to Establish a European Constitution,? references to the symbols and anthem of the ...
By: Analyzing EU
Death of a nation-state
2007-08-19 18:40:00 On 17 August, a spokesman for the Serbian Prime Minister asked that 1000 Serbian police and military be re-deployed to Kosovo, a border region of Serbia where the population is 90% Albanian. Kosovo seeks independence from Serbia and both have aspirations to eventually join the European Union. Thus the EU is arbitrating the disagreement, with ...
By: Analyzing EU
Pay gap between new and old European Union member states shrinks as wage in
2007-07-11 14:30:00 The pay gap between the 15 older member states of the European Union (EU) and the 12 new member states is closing rapidly, according to a report. Eurofound, an advisory EU body, found the average nominal pay was 3.1 times higher in the new EU states than in EU15 in 2006 and the real wage increase was 6.5 times higher. EU15 refers to the countries that were members before the expansion of the EU to incorporate 10 more members in May 2004. However, the report highlighted considerable differences between the old and new member countries. In the former EU15 countries, the average increase in 2006 stood at 2.9%, up from 2.8% in 2005, while the rate of real increase rose from 0.6% in 2005 to 0.8% in 2006. The average increase in the 12 new member states rose from 7.5% in 2005 to 9.1%.in 2006, and the rate of real increase climbed from 3.5% to 5.2%. When adjusted for inflation, the average collectively agreed wage increase across all 27 EU member states was 2.7% in 2006, up...
Italy and the Netherlands: The Governments? Stance and the Public Opinion v
2007-06-16 00:44:00 "The Iraq crisis has again demonstrated the internal divisions between the EU Member States, the continuing primacy of national foreign policies, and the conflicting national interests [?]" (Dannereuther 2004, p. 3) The year 2003 has brought a significant turbulence in the international relations, due to which Europe and its still relatively ‘infant’ foreign policy project ...
By: Analyzing EU
Eastern Europe struggles to find workers
2007-06-05 11:54:00 The 2004 accession of 10 new Member States to the EU triggered the fear of a massive movement of workers from Central and Eastern Europe to the ‘old’ EU states. The recent statistics show that the movement in fact occurred but it hasn’t had a negative influence on the labor market or economies of pre-accession ...
By: Analyzing EU
Sarkozy and Balkenende discuss EU Constitution
2007-06-04 09:58:00 French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende have similar views about the future of the Constitutional Treaty, according to the French president’s spokesman. Two leaders had a long conversation over a phone on 1 June 2007 during which they discussed the possibility of simplifying the treaty. French and Dutch voters rejected the ...
By: Analyzing EU
Different historical interpretation as a source of recent conflict between
2007-05-27 15:17:00 As it has been pointed out in the article "Estonia - Past & Future, Marching at the Front of Innovation", the 20th century history of Estonia is still highly contested amongst the contemporary scholars, politicians as well as by the ordinary citizens. This argument relates to the period between 1940-1991 when Estonia ‘changed hands’ from ...
By: Analyzing EU
A new Constitution: a new Referendum? (Dutch Perspective)
2007-05-25 11:02:00 - A Dutch perspective on the European Union - The German Presidency has placed the Constitutional Treaty and the negotiation of a new Treaty high on the agenda. In this summer, the first plans for a new Treaty for the EU will be discussed. The plans are there to have a new Treaty ready in early ...
By: Analyzing EU
A reconsideration of the European Constitution?
2007-05-14 22:40:00 - A Dutch perspective on the European Union ? The European Constitution and the rejection by the French and Dutch citizens is still a hotly debated topic. After a period of reflection, the German Presidency took the lead and started to discuss new possibilities and new Treaty reforms for the European Union. Two years after the ...
By: Analyzing EU
Europeanization of Italian Monetary Policy
2007-05-10 15:25:00 Europeanization of Italian Monetary Policy Already in the previously posted article on Italy?s economic developments since the Second World War references to the effect of Europeanization of Italy?s monetary policy have been made. It was pointed out that ?the notion of Europe provides for an external force that can correct the ills of the Italian governance.?(Sbragia, ...
By: Analyzing EU
EU-Digest: Nicholas Sarkozy wins French Presidential election
2007-05-07 00:40:00 Nicholas Sarkozy the newly elected President of France (born on 28 January 1955) is the son of an immigrant father from Hungary and a French mother of Greek and Jewish background. But what makes Sarkozy most atypical in the French political landscape is that he did not study at the École Nationale d’Administration. He was ...
By: Analyzing EU
Under the Umbrella - The U.S. Plan for a European Missile Shield
2007-04-30 23:22:00 The new American plan to extend their defence policy is to build an anti-missile defence shield in the Czech Republic and in Poland. There official aim is to defend against potential attacks from "rogue" states like Iran, Syria and North Korea. However, the negotiations about building the radar system in Central Europe have provoked debate ...
By: Analyzing EU
The Netherlands open their borders for workers
2007-04-30 10:38:00 The Dutch government has decided last week to open the job-market for the workers coming from ten Member States who joined the EU in 2004. The information, which was much appreciated by Vladimir Spidla, the Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, reached the European Commission on 27 April. The Dutch decision will be ...
By: Analyzing EU
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