As December is the month to look back on the year and take stock of what happened, what can we say about 2016? For sure that it was a demanding year, a year full of challenges and difficulties for both the EU and my home country Spain. Although the worst of the economic crisis seemed […]
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Given that I am absolutely poached in pop music, it’s no surprise I see parallels between big life events, or political earthquakes, and song lyrics. I was only five when I learned from ABBA that at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender, and that poor Agnetha and Frida’s destinies had been met in quite a similar way. […]
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In the weekend of 9 and 10 December, the European Union celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty. But European leaders and their citizens seemed not to be in the mood to party as the celebrations went largely unnoticed by the general public. As 2016 is slowly coming to an end, the EU, confronted […]
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Free InterRail tickets for 18 year-old Europeans: this proposal was recently presented by the European Parliament and the Commission has stated that they ‘are ready to explore it further’. The idea behind this initiative is to enable all young people to learn more about the European Union. In the words of the German Member of […]
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‘Turkey. Go back. Back Turkey. Go. No Bulgaria for you. Go Turkey. Immediately.’ Back in April, Petar Nizamov became a ‘patriotic hero’ for tying the hands of a few men with nylon cables because he caught them crossing the Bulgarian border. Dinko Valev, the other refugee hunter who also became a ‘superhero’ at the same […]
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