September 25, 2003

Europe and the world

No Really, It’s a Helpful Suggestion

by Doug Merrill

This was just too perfect not to pass along:
Rosbalt
Opinion: Europe Is Too Weak to Be Russia’s Ally
MOSCOW, September 25. ‘The US and Russian presidents have an opportunity to
take a big step towards closer bilateral integration,’ Sergei Karaganov,
president of the Council for Foreign and Defence Policy, told a Rosbalt
correspondent yesterday. He suggested that they may even [...]

September 17, 2003

The European Union

What kind of Europe?

by Nick Barlow

The Guardian recently hosted a debate on ‘What kind of Europe do we want?’ between writer (and Guardian columnist) Timothy Garton-Ash and Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore. The full transcript of the debate is available in pdf format, but there’s also a shorter summary that covers most of tha min points the two made. Given [...]

September 16, 2003

Economics and demography

The mathematical game

by Matthew Turner

It’s the first day of Europe’s Champions League football tournament but if you can’t wait for the results, no worries as Eurofootsie probably knows them all already thanks to it’s whizz-bang computer modelling.

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September 14, 2003

The European Union

Calling Europe?

by Tobias Schwarz

You might remember Henry Kissenger’s famous quip about his decision making weakness with respect to the then European Community -
“If I want to talk to Europe who do I call?”
Well, the introduction of a European Foreign Minister in the forseeable future will probably solve this problem for the likes of Mr Kissenger. But what about [...]

September 10, 2003

The European Union

The European Military project at a cross-roads

by Scott Martens

There’s a good article in today’s Le Figaro (a conservative French national newspaper) about the recent summit on a European military project in Arcachon. It’s titled L’Europe militaire ? la crois?e des chemins, and it is pretty pessimistic about the whole project.
A l’actualit? d’une loi de programmation militaire tangible, g?n?raux, ing?nieurs, chefs d’entreprise, parlementaires [...]

September 5, 2003

Europe and the world

Transatlantic Trends

by Nick Barlow

The 2003 Transatlantic Trends survey , conducted for the German Marshall Fund, Compagnia di San Paolo and Fundacao Luso-Americana, has recently published and the results from it make for some interesting reading. Some of the findings confirm what you might expect, while others confound expectations somewhat.
There’s a key findings report available in English, French, German, [...]

September 4, 2003

Life

Creating Europe through tourism?

by Nick Barlow

One of the long-running stories in the British media over the summer has been the antics of British tourists in the Greek resort of Faliraki on the island of Rhodes. Stories of the misadventures of ‘Brits abroad’ have been a staple of the British media over the last few years, fuelled by TV programmes like [...]

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