Category Archives: European Integration

American & Russian pressures build momentum towards a European army

Posted on March 9, 2015 by

Every-so-often, discussions emerge regarding the need of establishing a European army. This is an idea as old as post-WWII European integration and the European Defence Community proposed in 1952 that died with the 1954 veto of the European Political Community. Beyond the … Continue reading →

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Holocaust Memorial Day – Never Forget

Posted on January 27, 2015 by

On this day 70 years ago, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in present-day Poland. The scale of death and human destruction they found there was not lost to these men, even though they had been fighting on the most violent … Continue reading →

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3 Accounts of Euro-Zone Crisis Management

Posted on November 21, 2014 by

If you are interested in EU integration and if you’ve been following the Euro-Zone crisis for the last 5 years, then last  week would have definitely registered the publication of the following blog post by Peter Spiegel on the FT’s Brussels … Continue reading →

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Oh! …and this started happening 25 years ago

Posted on November 9, 2014 by

The Fall of the Berlin Wall! Here’s a nice video with the images I remember, even though my family had not relocated to France at the time yet. Memory can play funny tricks on you. I think I remember it … Continue reading →

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Euroscepticism in the UK and the EU Budget – a case study

Posted on October 31, 2014 by

Every so often I’ll be talking with people regarding the special brand of Euroscepticism that prevails in the UK and think to myself I don’t really have a serious case study in mind. Sure, there’s the Daily Express’ “Get us … Continue reading →

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Challenges and the Future of Africa – What insights for Europe?

Posted on October 24, 2014 by

On Wednesday, October 8th 2014, I was among the audience of the Wincott Lecture (hosted by the eponymous Foundation at Local Government House in London) given by Professor Sir Paul Collier, author of “The Bottom Billion – Why the poorest … Continue reading →

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