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The European effort recognised
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On Friday, the Nobel Prize committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union for "contributing to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe". This award is the recognition that the European proj...
My Stronger Europe competition is finally here!
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The Stronger Europe team is launching today an innovative competition with the purpose of increasing awareness of young Europeans on current European issues and widening participation in the European debate. The competition will be hosted on my.str...
Happy Europe Day
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It is now 62 years since the Schuman Declaration which proposed an organised Europe. Happy Europe Day. These 62 years have seen one of the largest periods of prosperity and peace that Europe (certainly Western Europe) has ever seen and this is becaus...
Directly electing the President of the European Commission - let us know what you think!
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This area is for you to leave any comments on our proposal. Whether you think it is right, wrong, crucial, unimportant, impactful, inefficient, or just something you appreciate, tell us what you think in the comments section! We welcome feedback a...
Two weeks to go!
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Thanks to the great feedback we have received from our followers over the past few months, we have decided that a full-blown campaign for the direct election of the President of the EU Commission would make Europe stronger and give citizens a real vo...
Two weeks to go
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Two weeks left before the official launch of the campaign! Thanks to the great feedback we have received from our followers over the past few months, we have decided that a full-blown campaign for the direct election of the President of the EU Commis...
Who is leading Europe?
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Over the course of the past few weeks, as we have posted articles on growth, one realisation struck us: the European Union is doing a lot more than people suspect. This came as a fantastic piece of news but it also raised two interesting issues. W...
Sowing the seeds of growth
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As we argued in a previous proposal, the third pillar of growth besides innovation and entrepreneurship is public investment in large-scale infrastructure projects. The objective of such investments is two-fold. On the one hand, investing public mon...
Europe's silver bullet
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It has been said many times that education is the silver bullet – it increases social mobility and makes the entire economy more competitive. European education systems currently lead the world, in 2006 86.8% of European school children received...
What would it take for the next facebook to be a European firm?
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Apple, Google, eBay… Those company names are instantly recognisable and have one thing in common: they were founded in Silicon Valley, California. These firms have created significant wealth for the United States in terms of employment as well as t...
Leveraging European talent in research and development
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One of the paths Europe will need to follow to get its finances in better shape is that of growth, as we suggested in our previous proposal. A key element to allow European countries to follow a sustainable growth path is investment in innovation...
Going for growth
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As stated in our previous policy proposal, the best way for Europe to gain strength and avoid recession is a stimulus package to create growth and jobs to make Europe’s next decade a prosperous one. This growth needs to come from a number of place...
The way out of the current European debt crisis
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Last week, European key policymakers have missed the opportunity to take advantage of the crisis and build a stronger Europe through the implementation of robust European fiscal policies. In our previous policy proposal, we showed that having a monet...
Fiscal integration in Europe
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We believe that the European Union needs fiscal integration if it is to stay strong and we are not the only ones to think so! This year’s Nobel laureates in economics Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent made a point at apress conference held at Pri...
Who is leading Europe?
NEW
Over the course of the past few weeks, as we have posted articles on growth, one realisation struck us: the European Union is doing a lot more than people suspect. This came as a fantastic piece of news but it also raised two interesting issues. We f...
Sowing the seeds of growth
NEW
As we argued in a previous proposal, the third pillar of growth besides innovation and entrepreneurship is public investment in large-scale infrastructure projects. The objective of such investments is two-fold. On the one hand, investing public mone...
Europe’s silver bullet
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It has been said many times that education is the silver bullet – it increases social mobility and makes the entire economy more competitive. European education systems currently lead the world, in 2006 86.8% of European school children received pr...
What would it take for the next Facebook to be a European firm?
NEW
Apple, Google, eBay… Those company names are instantly recognisable and have one thing in common: they were founded in Silicon Valley, California. These firms have created significant wealth for the United States in terms of employment as well as t...
Leveraging European talent in research and development
NEW
One of the paths Europe will need to follow to get its finances in better shape is that of growth, as we suggested in our previous proposal. A key element to allow European countries to follow a sustainable growth path is investment in innovation. Th...
Going for growth
NEW
As stated in our previous policy proposal, the best way for Europe to gain strength and avoid recession is a stimulus package to create growth and jobs to make Europe’s next decade a prosperous one. This growth needs to come from a number of places...
