David Cronin
Born in Dublin in 1971, David Cronin is Brussels correspondent for Inter Press Service news agency. After a period as a research assistant and press officer at the European parliament, he became European correspondent for Irish newspaper, The Sunday Tribune in 1998. He later worked as political correspondent for European Voice, a weekly newspaper owned by The Economist, from 2001 until 2006.
Serbia’s formal application for EU membership on 22 December has been hailed as a great step forward. David Cronin in the Guardian, however, accuses Europe of “brazen hypocrisy” in its dealings towards the former pariah state. 
EU laws protects our water and air, but as the Union’s environment ministers gather in Luxembourg June 25, no such legislation exists for that other element none of us can live without – the soil. 
On June 18 and 19, EU leaders are likely to support José Manuel Barroso’s candidacy for a second term as President of the European Commission. The former Portuguese prime-minister, however, is not a politician to everyone’s taste, as a swingeing profile in the Guardian demonstrates.