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The EP Intergroup on LGBT Rights
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The Intergroup on LGBT Rights is one of 27 working groups in the European Parliament (EP) dedicated to specific issues. According to its secretary, Bruno Selun, the Intergroup helps members to ensure that they are able to effectively promote rights f...
The EU Year of the Citizens
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The European Year of Citizens is dedicated to European Union (EU) citizenship in order to encourage dialogue between all levels of government, civil society, and business and to build a vision of how the EU should be in 2020. Civil society in modern...
Is austerity on its way out?
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Several high-profile European figures have recently shown themselves increasingly critical of austerity policies. This assumes that austerity is a choice, which it is not. For these policies to be successful, they need to come with structural reforms...
Walking on thin ice: Iceland and the EU
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The outgoing left-wing government decided in January not to take political decisions related to the EU in the run-up to the elections, which were held on 27 April. Now the new eurosceptic government has announced a halt to the country's EU accession...
European Citizen Consultations 2013
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This year's been coined ‘the Year of the Citizen' by the European Commission. On 17 occasions, Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding will hear citizens in 14 European countries. The intention is to gather the views and interests of citizens...
JEF-Europe condemns use of excessive force against peaceful protestors in Turkey
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Regardless of political affiliations and motives, the Young European Federalists strongly condemn all excessive use of police force and tear gas during peaceful demonstrations, as we have been witnessing in Istanbul, Ankara, and dozens of other citie...
The UK's identity crisis: a midlife crisis?
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The debate about the continued membership of the UK within the European Union occurs in the middle of the economic crisis synonym of recession and massive cuts in Britain. Margaret Thatcher who died last month will be remembered for her overseas war...
The failure of the BAE-EADS merger
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Last autumn witnessed the collapse of the important Paris agreement between two great European defence enterprises, BAE Systems and EADS, with their respective administrators Ian King and Tom Enders. The collapse of the negotiations was caused by the...
Will the financial crisis kill the French army ?
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It was long overdue and finally it comes, the White Paper on the Defense and National Security has been released recently by the Ministry of Defence. Given the fiscal discipline which tightens all expenditures, the publication of France's strategy se...
Protecting the victims of violence, Europe-wide
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Article signed by Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and EU Justice Commissioner and Antonio López-Istúriz, Member of the European Parliament, for the vote of “European Protection Order” during the ple...
The UK and the EU: more than 40 years of relationships unfolded
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As we have seen in the first article of this series, public opinion on the EU can be qualified as Eurosceptic. If this attitude was reinforced by the crisis, it has strong roots in history. Stephen Tindale already told us about historical and cultura...
Spend now, save later
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When trapped in quicksand, our instinctive response is to flail about in an attempt to lift ourselves out of this mortal trap, but struggling to get out is actually the quickest way to go down. The solution to the debt crisis could be equally counter...
Should the City move to Frankfurt?
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The City of London influences the global economy everyday, with its position as a great financial centre for international business, transactions and commerce. A service-based economy since the end of the Second World War, London's success can be asc...
Fog on the channel, continent cuts off
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Being pro-European and living in the UK is not the easiest thing to cope with. The UK is currently undergoing a debate on whether or not to leave the EU. The balance of power between the pros and cons of European integration is overwhelmingly in favo...
The next Generation of government for the EU?
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Last month, the United Kingdoms' Prime Minister, David Cameron, told European news agencies that the European Union needs more flexibility for its Member States to choose whether they want to follow EU policies. While this statement is in line with c...
9th of May: recalling the necessity of a federal Europe
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In such difficult times, when Europe is facing its most severe crisis in decades, the Young European Federalists (JEF-Europe) call Europe back to celebrate the 9th of May, the day of European Unity, but above all the anniversary of Robert Schuman's D...
The EU & the green battle
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Once upon a time the EU was a global leader in fighting climate change. In the last few years it has played a pivotal role in tackling CO2 emissions and boosting the green economy world wide. In international summits, EU representatives advocated rad...
Is there still faith in Europe among Turks?
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It happened last 25th January. Recep Tyyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, invited by the Turkish television channel Kanal 2, comes back on the evasive proposals of Vladimir Putin held in July, when the latter had asked him ‘not without hu...
A tale of Europe in 2020
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Just like the 1930s, this crisis will have a long-lasting impact on Europeans' lives. Just like for a war, our generation has no choice but to confront hardship. Just like any major historical event, it can reveal mankind's brightest and darkest face...
Italy's electoral stalemate and the impact on the European project
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General elections took place in Italy from 24-25 February to decide on the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 17th Parliament of the Italian Republic. The election results reveale...
