The West unites against Mali desert rebels
It was very characteristic that the European Commission press release issued yesterday about the EU’s support for the French military operations in Mali was available only in the French language. On...
View ArticleLondon, Berlin, Paris to fight over EU budget
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron is about to announce today in London, that if the conservative party wins the 2015 election, the UK should opt for a different relation with the European Union...
View ArticleLondon to say hello or goodbye to Brussels this week
Towards the end of this week, on 7 and 8 February, the 27 EU leaders will gather again in Brussels in a most crucial Summit, which is supposed to decide the financial means all the EU institutions will...
View ArticleThe EU lets the bankers go on rigging the benchmarks
The European Commission adopted yesterday additional “measures to restore confidence in benchmarks following Libor and Euribor scandals”. The new draft legislation complements the political agreement...
View ArticleBritain and Germany change attitude towards the European Union
Two different developments, completely unrelated with each other, at least in the first reading, took place yesterday and may shape the future of the European Union in the near future. In the first...
View ArticleGermany and OSCE support an east-west dialogue in Ukraine without exclusions
The West has lost the ball in Ukraine, while the Kremlin ruler tries to make the most out of it. What happened in Mariupol and Sloviansk cannot be justified. West’s allies in the country, that is the...
View ArticleThis afternoon Britain will be once more isolated from mainland Europe
This morning the European Council will carry out an unprecedented procedure. The 28 EU leaders are supposed to nominate Jean-Claude Juncker as candidate for European Commission President by qualified...
View ArticleWhat next after more sanctions against Russia, will the Ukrainian civil war end?
Even if the Kiev government accomplishes the conquest of eastern Ukraine by the force of arms, the West in general, cannot be sure of a viable solution in the long-term. It is impossible to pacify this...
View ArticleScotland in United Kingdom: It’s either the end or the beginning of the end
Whatever the outcome of this Thursday’s vote, Scotland is to leave the UK now or in the not so distant future. If it was not for the international intervention, including London’s financial and...
View ArticleLast-chance Commission: Why Juncker promised investments of €300 billion?
Jean-Claude Juncker is a ‘product’ of the 2008-2010 and still ongoing financial crisis in the Western economic volume. So is his Commission Presidency and he has a deep understanding of that. Juncker,...
View ArticleThe EU Parliament and the ECB unknowingly or unwillingly fail to protect our...
This week the European Parliament and the European Central Bank rather unknowingly or unwillingly failed to protect the European citizens from the attacks of ‘money sharks’. In two different occasions...
View ArticleWhy did Cameron gain absolute majority? What will he do now? Will he vote...
The UK election results came as a shock to many but primarily shook the British public opinion poll experts. All of them failed to even come anywhere near predicting the final results. For Britain,...
View ArticleEU’s core members are eyeing larger parts of arms trade and of world map
Last Friday, 8 May, the European Commission released two documents setting a path for defense and security cooperation within the EU. The reports will be presented in an upcoming discussion by the...
View ArticleWhat the world will look like after the Iran and 5+1 deal; the US emerges as...
The first to travel to Tehran after the nuclear agreement was struck last week between Iran and the 5+1 (France, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States plus Germany) are the German...
View ArticleEurope slammed by Turkey’s shaky Erdoğan; both playing with immigrants’ agony
Probably the greatest achievement of last Thursday’s European Council was that its conclusions were refuted within hours after they were published. While the official text of the Council results boasts...
View ArticleThe 28 EU leaders unable to start a relevant debate on migration and Brexit
The poor results of last week’s meeting of the 28 EU leaders are reflected in the triviality of the remarks by the Council President Donald Tusk, in summarizing the outcome of the 17 – 18 December...
View ArticleCapital markets selloff: The financial moguls send messages to monetary...
The wild selloff in the major capital markets of the world that culminated last Monday, the first working day of the New Year and continued on Wednesday for a fifth day in row was not just an...
View ArticleOne more country to test the EU project: Kaczynski’s Poland
Poland, with a population of 40 million or 8% of the EU is not the land locked and Russia loving Hungary that Brussels may easily pretend doesn’t exist. The October electoral triumph of the...
View ArticleCameron readies to support ‘yes’ for Britain in the EU
At the next European Council of 18-19 February, the 28 European Union leaders are expected to deliberate and possibly finalize the terms on Britain’s position in the club. David Cameron, the British...
View ArticleWEF Davos 2016 LIVE: Banking moguls continue brandishing financial Armageddon...
On Thursday 7n January this newspaper commented that behind the capital markets selloff, which shook the financial world in the first week of this year, were the financial moguls who want to impose...
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