Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is considering entering the path of a trade war with Russia, as it opposes the trade part of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement which was initially supposed to become effective a year ago.
At the third extraordinary summit of the European Union this year, an additional EUR1bn has been allocated for dealing with the migration crisis. But it has been already known that it’s not enough.
ECB will not be able to support European financial markets endlessly. The euro crisis weakened the internal market both economically and politically. The past few years have been wobbly, and there will surely be further bumps...
Bulgaria’s admission into the EU was somewhat conditional – Bulgaria had not met all the requirements, but the Union’s officials hoped that the admission to the community will provide an impulse to quickly fix the...
The cohesion of the European Union is constantly called into question. Its consolidation is not a foregone conclusion. The longer the crisis lasts the more probable a drift towards division.
Moldova with its 3.6 million inhabitants is today one of Europe’s poorest countries and it will benefit a lot from the association agreement with the EU despite its peripheral location.
As compared to the current EU budget, Poland is to receive EUR 5 billion more in the budget for 2014-2020, but the funds will be more difficult to use. Local governments will benefit most from it if only they manage to master...
We have a huge layer cake from Brussels – more than PLN 300 billion. There are reasons for joy of successful negotiations. Yet, the rhetoric of the success of the battle for each euro cent should fast give way to reflections on...
After the extremely strong German second quarter growth number, and the weaker American one, Germany seems to have become the great role model in terms of achieving growth. This is kind of strange since a lot of countries...
Anyone who reads the Wall Street Journal‚s editorial page knows that it hates the value-added tax. I don’t mean hate the way it hates liberals, government regulators and the capital gains tax. No, the Journal hates the...