The Euro Summit of 22 June has ended without a solution to the Greek issue but President Juncker has said that a final agreement will be reached this week in the European Council of 25-26 June. The general tone emanating from the Summit has been one of final ultimatum to Greece mixed with acknowledgement that…
By Georgina Higueras
A reality or just an illusion? The Silk Road is China’s great strategic project and a commitment loaded with opportunities not only for Beijing but also for Europe and other countries. Of course, there are obstacles, especially the instability in Central Asia and the Middle East.
“A heroic mercantile exploit with no prospects”
False. The Silk Road is China’s great strategic commitment as a superpower.
The heads of state and government of the G7 leading industrial countries met on 7 and 8 June 2015 in Schloss Elmau, south of Munich, under the chairmanship of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. Their agenda included Greece, Ukraine, climate change and sustainable development, among other issues. At the end of their discussions they issued a…
Results announced a few hours after the closing of voting in Turkey indicate that the AKP is far from attaining the number of MPs that would allow it to amend the Constitution. Furthermore, the AKP may not be in a position to establish a single-party government. Erdogan’s announced plan to transform Turkey’s political system seems…
Full speech by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. I am honoured to address the representatives of the people of Europe. I congratulate President Schulz for receiving the prestigious Charlemagne Prize this month for his work to promote democracy and to bring the European Parliament closer to the people it serves. This parliament represents a…
After his meeting with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on 25 May, UK Prime Minister David Cameron will soon be taking his show on the road with plans to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande, among others, concerning the future of Britain’s EU membership. The discussion will revolve around British demands to renegotiate the Lisbon Treaty as a…
21/05/2015 (OECD Press Release) – Income inequality has reached record highs in most OECD countries and remains at even higher levels in many emerging economies. The richest 10 per cent of the population in the OECD now earn 9.6 times the income of the poorest 10 per cent, up from 7:1 in the 1980s and…
Question on the cost of the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) submitted by Portuguese MEP Miguel Viegas (GUE/NGL) and response by ECB President Mario Draghi. Do as I say, not as I do… On 18 March 2015 the European Central Bank inaugurated its new, glittering…
Another milestone reached in the direction of a freer, more tolerant and more richly diversified Europe with the same-sex marriage of Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, to Gauthier Destenay, a Belgian architect, on 15 May 2015 in Luxembourg City.
