There are seven candidate countries for joining the euro, but the EU’s latest report shows that none of them will be joining any time soon – despite their EU treaty obligations to do so. Brexit Facts4EU reports. This is an edited […]
Michel Barnier is again threatening a hard border in Ireland as tensions rise on the implementation of the backstop. But as Professor Anthony Coughlan, Emeritus Professor of Trinity College Dublin explains, Barnier’s idle threats merely demonstrate the EU’s cynical approach […]
The Franco-German agreement on the EU’s Coronavirus ‘recovery fund’ is already being met with criticism from both sides of the Eurozone divide. This report from Germany explains Chancellor Merkel’s U-turn, and looks at the difficulties that still lie ahead in […]
German foreign policy experts, economists, and even an EU Commissioner are all warning that Brussels’ inadequate Coronavirus relief measures could widen the EU’s the north-south economic divide still further, threatening the EU’s political project. This is an edited version of […]
Last week German foreign minister Heiko Maas used the term ‘torture tools’ to describe the hyper-austerity that the Troika (the European Commission, European Central Bank and the IMF) has imposed on Greece for the past decade. Greek Ambassador ad honorem […]
Political scientist and CIB committee member Dr Anna Bailey examines the political crisis that has developed in the EU over its financial response to Covid-19. While the EU has managed to muddle its way through the numerous crises thrown at […]
