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[Comment] Before Copenhagen is flooded

01.07.2008 @ 10:47 CET

With international politicians and academics set to descend en masse on the Danish capital next autumn to debate the way forward on climate change, the vice-chancellor of the University of Copenhagen urges the political and scientific spheres to work together for once.

[Comment] The silent revolution of parliamentary reform

02.07.2008 @ 09:52 CET

UK Socialist MEP Richard Corbett lays out why his proposed reforms to how the European Parliament works are necessary, and questions the need for questions from Euro-deputies on "nonsense" subjects such as weight-distorting mirrors in department stores and the death of Osama bin Laden.

[Comment] Europe's future more likely to lie with universitities than farmers

04.07.2008 @ 09:32 CET

The Sarkozy-Mandelson spat over the impact a world trade deal might have on European agriculture is a distraction, argues Peter Sain ley Berry. Far more important is the impact that a world trade deal might have on Europe's uncompetitive universities.

[Comment] Who's to blame for high petrol prices?

01.07.2008 @ 09:52 CET

Oil companies and commodity speculators gain substantially at consumers' expense via the current hike of oil prices, writes George Irvin and suggests taxation of oil-companies' profits instead of cutting petrol taxes.

The full burden of extra costs cannot be passed on to the consumer. (Photo: Notat)

[Comment] Starting from scratch

27.06.2008 @ 09:13 CET

In the light of the Irish referendum result and rocketing oil prices President Sarkozy might as well tear up his plans for the French Presidency starting on 1 July and begin again from scratch, writes Peter Sain ley Berry.

[Comment] A Plan B for Ireland?

24.06.2008 @ 16:47 CET

During October's European Council, member states could simply sign the consolidated text of the EU Treaties leaving Ireland with the option of joining the EU with the Lisbon Treaty in force, suggests Daniel Gros, director of the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies.

[Comment] A coalition of the willing has to bring Europe back on track

19.06.2008 @ 16:58 CET

The time is up for mini-compromises and mini-solutions. We need a coalition of the willing to get Europe back on track, argues Christoph Leitl, President of SME Union and Honorary President of Eurochambres.

[Comment] What would a second Irish referendum solve?

18.06.2008 @ 07:31 CET

A second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland would only reinforce the idea that referendums do not really count, says Richard Laming.

[Comment] Lobbyist transparency cannot be optional

23.06.2008 @ 08:33 CET

As the European Commission today unveils its lobbyist registry, US-based lobbyist Craig Holman argues that the plans still leave Brussels open to an Abramoff-style scandal such as recently hit Washington.

[Comment] The EU: reform or self destruct?

19.06.2008 @ 16:33 CET

The better way out would be to accept the Irish No vote for what it was – a rational rejection of deeper EU integration – and to carry out the reforms that were promised in the Laeken Declaration, writes Open Europe Director Neil O'Brien.

[Comment] Democracy may be the price for securing a Lisbon agreement

19.06.2008 @ 09:51 CET

The EU's democratic deficit has killed the Lisbon Treaty, argues Peter Sain ley Berry. Nevertheless, a non-treaty ‘Lisbon Arrangement' might succeed if a real extension of European democracy was on the agenda.

[Comment] Are we returning to 1970s stagflation?

17.06.2008 @ 08:09 CET

The view that Europe should give precedence to the fight against inflation is not only wrong but it could prove deeply dangerous, says George Irvin.

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