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The Great Stress Test of Our Societies

The Covid-19 pandemic became the Great Stress Test of the European Union. Here in Europe, our societies have been spared from wars and bloody...

Marta Loeb
Mar 25, 2020 2 min read

The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf…

Once upon a time there was a mother sow who had three little pigs. When they grew old enough, the little pigs decided that...

Christopher Tapp
Mar 4, 2020 5 min read

Brexit is over. New negotiations just begin

Amidst the global panic surrounding the Coronavirus epidemic and the uproar caused by Megxit, the final stages of the Brexit happened fairly unnoticed. Especially...

Christopher Tapp
Feb 20, 2020 2 min read

A math exercise for the EU: finding the least…

The wide differences between the expectations of member states are threatening with a no budget situation. The EP is in fact so worried by...

Christopher Tapp
Jan 22, 2020 3 min read

MFF: winning an uphill battle

Exactly as expected, there were more against the Finnish MFF proposal (“negotiating box”) than those supporting it. The EP and most of the Eastern...

Christopher Tapp
Jan 17, 2020 4 min read

A few reasons for EU enlargement

It’s been 16 years since the Thessaloniki Summit where EU membership was promised to the states of the Western Balkans. Most of them are...

Christopher Tapp
Dec 18, 2019 3 min read

Ready, set, roll

After a few changes and a slight delay, the von der Leyen Commission finally got the green light from the Parliament. In theory, nothing...

Marta Loeb
Dec 12, 2019 1 min read

Protecting the rule of law – the right way…

A few final thoughts and conclusions (sort of) So far, I’ve written about why rule of law is a beautiful, complex, yet rather tricky...

Marta Loeb
Nov 29, 2019 3 min read

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