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Editorial: Euro-visions

Some Europeans have their gaze fixed on Malmö at the moment, where the Eurovision Song Contest is being hosted. Though, it might be worth paying […]

17 May 2013
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Editorial: Reasons for hope

Is there still a reason to celebrate Europe Day and the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which led to the founding of the European Union? […]

9 May 2013
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Editorial: Balkan hopes

The scars are still far from healed, but Gazeta Wyborcza has aptly summed up what we’re seeing these days, namely “an end to the 24-year […]

26 April 2013
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Editorial: One poor man can hide another

As sharp-tongued commentators might put it, “the empire is striking back”. Just when it seemed that Europe was over the Cypriot crisis, in which Germany […]

19 April 2013
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Editorial: The Great Evasion

One trillion euros. According to the European Commission, this is what tax evasion costs the EU every year: about half the GDP of Italy, or […]

5 April 2013
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Editorial: Our European divisions

Is this a sign of the times? Last Sunday, there was an article which claimed that “like Hitler, Angela Merkel has declared war on Europe,” […]

29 March 2013
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Editorial: Everyone is to blame

Wisdom has it that history is endlessly starting over. The question is: have politicians, and in particular the ones who lead us, learned this lesson? In […]

22 March 2013
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Editorial: Grim anniversary

March 15 will mark the second anniversary of the uprising against the start Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Over the last two years, what began […]

15 March 2013
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Editorial: Italian election may have a silver lining

The Italian election results have been met with astonishment on the other side of the Alps. However, Europe’s leaders should in fact be heaving a […]

28 February 2013
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Editorial: Food for thought

"Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are." How many Europeans today could answer the question posed in the 19th Century […]

19 February 2013
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Editorial: Budget and democracy

At the end of a marathon negotiating session that was more akin to haggling in a bazaar than plush drawing-room diplomacy, the government leaders of […]

11 February 2013
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Editorial: Back on track

It was the last bastion to hold out against liberalisation, but by 2019, it will finally be brought into line. The free market has been introduced […]

1 February 2013
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Editorial: You’re on, Mr Cameron!

This week we were presented with what was in many ways a condensed history of the construction of Europe played out over two days. On […]

25 January 2013
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Editorial: It’s our war too

What was bound to happen has happened. Now that the Malian conflict has spread to Algeria, the French military operation launched last week to block […]

18 January 2013
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Editorial: A human face for the euro

What has shades of grey, brown and green and folds up to fit in your pocket? The more unhappy or caustic among you may be […]

11 January 2013
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Editorial: Trends for 2013

Transition or decision? After 2012, the year in which the euro was supposed to collapse, it is tempting to predict what 2013 has in store […]

4 January 2013
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Editorial: Christmas readings

Witnessing historic changes is often a privilege. This year again, Presseurop was at the forefront of the coverage of changes happening, or poised to happen, […]

24 December 2012
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Editorial: Who’s afraid of Berlusconi?

"The exalted and disproportionate reactions from some European politicians to the announcement of my reentering politics offends the freedom of choice of Italians.” Silvio Berlusconi's […]

14 December 2012
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Editorial: Bad climate

When it comes to the environment, the latest paradox is that Qatar, world champion in carbon footprint per capita, should be the organiser of the […]

7 December 2012
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Editorial: Every man for himself

The major diplomatic event of this week was the United Nations’ decision to recognise the Palestinian Territories as a non-member observer state on November 29. […]

30 November 2012
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Editorial: A budget for 7 years

In the coming days, we will likely see yet another revival of the grand European tradition for interminable and acrimonious budgetary negotiations. On 22-23 November, […]

16 November 2012
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Editorial: Need for transparency

The resignation of the Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli, accused of not having denounced the attempted solicitation of a bribe on his […]

9 November 2012
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Editorial: Obama, a lacklustre ally

There is a striking contrast between European media anxiously monitoring the slightest variations in the United States presidential polls combined with their blow-by-blow attention to […]

2 November 2012
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Editorial: The temptation of Google

Ah, Google! Without it, the Internet would probably have a quite different face. And Presseurop, which uses its online apps, would be a lot harder […]

19 October 2012
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Editorial: EU must be worthy of prize

So the European Union has won the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s a surprise, but it is also a strong message, the kind that the Nobel […]

12 October 2012
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Editorial: In praise of Erasmus

Imagine a space where, every year, tens of thousands of Europeans meet, get to know each other and learn how to live in a country […]

5 October 2012
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Editorial: Reach for the cloud

Never mind the crisis, if the Commissioner for Digital Agenda is to be believed, Europeans will soon be on a cloud. On Thursday 27 September, […]

28 September 2012
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Editorial: The shale gas mirage

Every year, towards the end of the summer, the same question is routinely raised in several European countries: the cost of gas for heating and […]

21 September 2012
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Editorial: American style Germany

We all know that Angela Merkel is the world’s most powerful woman, and that her country is the most powerful state in the European Union, […]

14 September 2012
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Editorial: From Merkozy to Draghi

Everywhere in Europe, with the exception of the Bundesbank in Frankfurt and other bastions of monetary orthodoxy, Mario Draghi has been hailed as the last […]

7 September 2012
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Editorial: Your debate

Europeans are “too different to get along”. Regardless of whether you agree or not, and regardless of whether you believe it to be […]

31 August 2012
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Editorial: Euro holiday draws to a close

Are the markets all powerful? Up until a few weeks ago, we were told that they were. Back then it looked as if […]

24 August 2012
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Editorial: Marriage for all

Do you live in Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain or Sweden? Don't worry about it then. In these countries, same-sex couples can […]

17 August 2012
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Editorial: Europe and the Olympics

A surprising medal table, circulated on the Internet in recent days, showed a single podium count for all of the EU countries at the […]

10 August 2012
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Editorial: Eurozone doublespeak

“If you understood what I just said, I must have misspoken.” It was easy to laugh at the quip by former US Federal […]

3 August 2012
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Editorial: The Bucharest test

What is happening in Romania? Seen from Brussels and most European capitals, Victor Ponta’s government is abusing its powers by placing its people […]

20 July 2012
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Editorial: Stuck in neutral

“Tell me what you drive and I'll tell you who you are.” Since it began to be mass produced, the car is not […]

13 July 2012
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Editorial: Europe’s boson

It is the indispensable elementary particle, the one that explains why the universe exists and why the elements of which it is comprised […]

6 July 2012
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Editorial: A bad night for Merkel

Can you always be right and everyone else always be wrong? Obviously not, as the German Chancellor Angela Merkel learned from bitter experience during the night […]

29 June 2012
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Editorial: Adieu Acta

Slowly but surely ACTA is being pushed towards the waste paper basket. On 21 June, the European parliament’s International Trade Committee recommended […]

22 June 2012
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Editorial: Respite will be short-lived

On May 7, in the aftermath of the second round of the French presidential contest and the first of what subsequently proved to […]

18 June 2012
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Editorial: The “federalist plot”

In recent weeks, the abysmal performance of "bailout + austerity" therapy (until now, the sole remedy deployed to treat the euro crisis) has […]

8 June 2012
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Editorial: Don’t betray Ireland’s trust

Ireland has said “Yes” to the fiscal compact. Signed last February by 25 of the 27 EU countries, it is supposed to build confidence in […]

1 June 2012
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Editorial: Grexit — let’s stop scaring ourselves

Again this week the Europeans – and not just Europeans – played at putting the fear into themselves by evoking the hypothesis of a Grexit […]

25 May 2012
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Editorial: No way out?

The term coined earlier this year when Greece was negotiating a write-off of part of its debt to the banks, “Grexit” (a portmanteau […]

18 May 2012
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Editorial: Boycott Kiev’s regime

Should there be a boycott of the Euro 2012 football championship matches scheduled to be held in Ukraine, which is co-organising the competition […]

11 May 2012
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Editorial: From Paris to Athens

Which was the most important election on 6 May? The new French president, François Hollande, is on the front page of virtually every newspaper […]

7 May 2012
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Editorial: Let the debate begin!

Is François Hollande the “darling of Brussels” lauded by left-wing daily Libération, or the “rather dangerous” man, feared by the liberal weekly, The Economist ? […]

27 April 2012
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Editorial: The Norwegian model

In recent days, in Room 250 of the Oslo courthouse, democracy and the rule of law are being tested. The trial of Anders Behring […]

20 April 2012
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Editorial: Looking ahead to 6 May

The Americans have their Super Tuesday, the day when primary elections held in several states often mark a turning point in the process for nominating […]

16 April 2012
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The European elections are the only truly democratic element of the EU. It is certainly not through abstaining that we will change the system.

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The best "organic" is to buy local products. Everything else is brand hysteria.

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