WARSAW (RIA Novosti) — Warsaw could get an additional billion euros ($1.35 billion) from Brussels in 2011-2012 as a reward for the country’s dynamic economic growth in recent years, Polish Radio reported on Thursday.
It cited informal sources as saying substantial funds were earmarked for Poland from a special 3 billion-euro fund for countries that have [...]
The finance ministers of the EU on Tuesday ordered an ambitious austerity programme and strict budget controls for Greece. Commentators say it’s high time for a common economic policy for all EU members, and analyse reasons for the failure of Southern Europe’s economies.
High time for a pan-European economic policy
With the EU decision to put Greece [...]
The European Parliament on Tuesday elected the new EU Commission with a clear majority. Commentators say the Commission must above all tackle the major economic challenges facing Europe.
Commission must restore trust in Eurozone
The EU Commission needs to restore confidence in the Eurozone, the Spanish business paper Cinco Días writes:
“Its first task is to prepare a [...]
Agenda: With George Friedman
The European Commission has placed Greece’s economic policies under an unprecedented level of oversight within the eurozone. Analyst Peter Zeihan discusses the implications and mounting pressures for France and Belgium.
If only politics could be like the car park at the EU Parliament in Brussels, sighs Annamari Sipilä, Brussels correspondent for the daily Helsingin Sanomat:
“The car park at the EU Parliament is clean, warm and well-lit. It is supervised by friendly personnel who make sure everything runs as it should. The atmosphere is calm [...]
While the EU is pressing for progress at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the daily Dagens Nyheter points to disaccord between the EU member states:
“The states disagree both over negotiation strategies and political content. How far should the EU go in the negotiations – and who should pay for what the EU promises? [...]
Although the duo at the head of the European Union has not yet started work, in part because the EU Parliament is blocking the new “Foreign Minister”, the European press is already detailing the challenges facing the new leadership.
Berlingske Tidende – Denmark
The new EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and the new EU foreign minister [...]
Leaders of the European Union’s 27 countries will meet in Brussels on Thursday evening to decide who will become the bloc’s first president.
Brussels (RIA Novosti) – Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy is widely seen as the frontrunner among a large pool of candidates for the post, officially entitled Permanent President of the European Council.
The leaders [...]
For weeks a tug-of-war has been raging over the posts of EU president and foreign affairs minister.
The daily Postimees (Estonia) takes issue with this spectacle:
“The show we are seeing now is another example of the famous exception proving the rule according to which any publicity is supposed to be good publicity. The longer this [...]
The European Commission has once again proposed levying an EU tax.
The Lisbon Treaty makes such a tax feasible, however the mood in the member states rules it out, the daily Savon Sanomat writes:
“According to the Commission a comprehensive financial reform would be necessary to grant the EU the right to levy taxes.
… But it [...]
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