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Presidency of the E.U. Council: a first for Croatia
Aymeric Bourdin | January 24, 2020 | Competences, News, Op-eds Each country of the European Union takes a turn presiding over the European Union Council for a period of six months. Following Finland, who assumed the role from July to December of 2019, it is now Croatia’s turn for the first half of…
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The Challenges of the Green Deal
Aymeric Bourdin | first published on eu-policies.com The fundamental challenge As a truly holistic project, the Green Deal requires the implementation of a number of components in order to attain climate neutrality. One of these components, the circular economy, must represent “half” of the E.U.’s effort to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by…
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From one term to another: European institutions in a changing world
Aymeric Bourdin | October 17, 2019 | First published on eu-policies by Aymeric Bourdin, Managing Editor EU-Policies.com, Chairman of Atelier Europe The 2019 European elections are seeing the beginning of a new five-year term in a vastly different context from that of 2014. On a global scale, the multilateralism that once prevailed has now suffered significant damage.…
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Defending Europe in Hénin Beaumont
A significant town in the north of France – Hénin Beaumont, 26.000 inhabitant-strong – has recently decided to shift from seventy years of socialism to Front National (FN), France’s extreme right anti-EU party. The 2014 Municipal elections gathered 64% of voters and 50,3% of their ballots went to the new FN Mayor, Steeve Briois. No…
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Merkel, Tsipras, Adam and Eve
Chancellor Merkel faces a solitude Germans have known in the past. One that is quite familiar to the ongoing Greek problem. In the XVIIe century, Europe argued notably over « the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall« , i.e. Adam and Eve’s eating-the-apple-sin strikingly followed by the promise of redemption. Milton gave a powerful interpretation of that sequence…