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Happy Europe Day!
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Who would have thought that Europe would come this far, when Robert Schuman gave the Schuman Declaration. <p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;your browser does not support IFRAMEs&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;...
Is Martin Schulz emerging as a new leftist leader in Europe?
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On the morning after François Hollande was elected president of France, Martin Schulz sat in his office at 7h50 and gave an interview to Deutschlandradio. Then his press team sat down to write an opinion peace for Project Syndicate. Not only Franço...
What must be said
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With his poem "What must be said", to be found here [DE], German nobel prize laureat Günter Grass stirred up a heated discussion in Germany. At the core of it: Can Germany, the country that bears responsibility for the Holocaust, criticize Israel?&n...
EU-China summit: Advance on Market Economy Status, retreat on Economic Partnership
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At the EU-China summit in Tianjin, José Manuel Barroso, Herman van Rompuy and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao agreed that a rich in substance EU-China investment agreement would promote and facilitate investment in both directions. Negotiations towards t...
Here are the Eurobloggers
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Bloggingportal.eu is celebrating its third anniversary tomorrow, 26 January 2012. The website brings together 904 blogs in the different languages of the EU, written by individuals, journalists, Members of the European Parliament, European Commission...
MountEUlmypus post no. 100
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I just realized that my previous post was MountEUlympus post no. 100. After two and a half years of writing about the EU, this blog is still here, and it is here to stay for a while. Just a few musings about EU blogging before I turn back to proper...
A cultural war between China and the West?
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The Chinese word for coffee - 咖啡, pronounced kafei - is a good example for the way in which Western culture has slowly crept into Chinese society. While the idea of drinking tea ("cha") has developed through centuries of Chinese history, coffee c...
European Quality Charter on Internships presented in Paris
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European interns working outside or after formal education should earn at least 60% of the median income or the national minimum wage of a European country, say the European Youth Forum, MEP Emilie Turunen and a range of other stakeholders in the new...
Youth urge leaders at Durban conference: GET IT DONE!
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As the Durban climate conference is going into its last negotiations (follow them at the tag #COP17 on Twitter or via Google News), young people have been given the floor to speak on behalf of global youths, representing half of the world's populatio...
Durban summit: Is China becoming a climate leader?
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Three more days of climate negotiations in Durban and the EU's hopes for a binding agreement are vanishing into the distance. Climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard already told the European Parliament in November that she did not insist on a binding...
European Financial Transaction Tax – the story of a broken dream
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The G20 summit last week made significant advances in the introduction of a global financial transaction tax (FTT). Not only France, Spain and Germany but also Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia and South Africa have declared themselves in favor of an FTT,...
Youths challenge European leaders on EU foreign policy
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Fed up with widespread political apathy of the young generation, the editors of the European blog Europe & Me dared a bet: If they could mobilize 10,000 young Europeans to fill out a 4-minute survey on European Foreign Policy, its results will be...
EPP heads of govt retreat to Belgian castle to discuss European Council
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It’s a busy weekend in Brussels. Yesterday’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council cleared the path for today’s European Council/Eurozone Summit, while the General Affairs yesterday discussed (PDF) economic policy and finalized the EU position...
MountEUlympus at the EPP Summit
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In the footsteps of Julien Frisch, Joe Litobarski and Andrew Burgess, your humble blogger will cover the summit of the European People's Party (EPP), held this Saturday evening in preparation for the European Council on Sunday (and Wednesday). Ang...
Macroeconomic convergence in the EU - ok, but what about structural funds?
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The macroeconomic stability regulations that the European Parliament passed in late September, better known as "sixpack", lay down severe penalties for countries whose economies exceed the European average by too much. This could hit overachieving Ge...
Finally - a debate about the future of the European Union in Germany
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For one and a half years, debates on the European Union in Germany could be largely summed up as "we always pay, we never get anything back". Not only is this wrong, the pure limitation to financial aspects also obstructed the view upon a more import...
It's good to live in a shared European Union
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Verdun, 24 September 2011 CC BY-NC-ND André Feldhof much better than to live in a Europe of hostile nation-states...
75% of European interns are unpaid or insufficiently paid
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A new survey by the European Youth Forum reveals that three out of four young Europeans are either unpaid or do not receive sufficient compensation to pay for their living expenses. Only about 25% of all respondents were able to pay all of their livi...
II Youth Convention on Volunteering
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On 8 September, the II Youth Convention on Volunteering kicks off. More than 1500 registered participants are expected in the European Parliament in Brussels and on the Esplanade in front of it from 8 to 11 September. Many more young people from Br...
48 hours of blogging action against East Africa food crisis
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This blogpost is part of the 48 Hours of Action against the famine in the Horn of Africa. It currently has a value of five working hours and 40 EUR of donations. Please let me know via the contact form if it influenced you to donate; I will adapt...
