French president François Hollande is lobbying for the formation of a “Eurozone government” in order to achieve a higher level of integration among its member states (19 July). President Hollande, in a letter published by the Journal du Dimanche in which he pays homage to ex-President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, explained that the…
An historic agreement has finally been reached between Iran and the group of six world powers on 14 July 2015. The deal, which is a political agreement and not a legally binding treaty, limits Iran’s nuclear programme for a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions. Joint statement by EU High…
Agreement was reached after 17 hours of negotiations among the Eurozone leaders. As a result, Grexit has been averted, with a new programme of support for Greece to be negotiated on the basis of the parameters agreed by the leaders. The agreement has to be confirmed by several national parliaments, including the Greek Parliament that…
The future of Greece in the Eurozone and possibly the European Union itself is being decided in a series of meetings that examine the Greek governments new bailout and reform proposals. A Eurogroup meeting on Saturday, 11 July is expected to make recommendations to an EU summit to be held on Sunday, 12 July 2015, which…
The Justus Lipsius, for the likely 99% of Europeans who don´t know what it is, is the building of the European Council in Brussels (the percentage of Europeans who know what the European Council is may be slightly higher). A rainbow over it may indicate, according to a tweet by Juncker´s Chief of Staff Martin…
The final gatherings of the No and Yes camps took place in various cities of Greece on Friday, 3 July. The screen shot here is from Greek public television ERT (“EPT”), showing on the left the No (“OXI”) event at Syntagma Square, and on the right the Yes (“NAI”) event in front of the old Olympic…
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made an appeal to the Greek people in a rare emergency press conference (29 June) in Brussels, urging Greeks to vote “yes” on Sunday’s referendum. “I will say to the Greeks who I love deeply: you mustn’t commit suicide because you are afraid of death,” pleaded Mr. Juncker. The fate of…
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ address concerning the referendum to be held on the 5th of July June 27, 2015 Greek citizens, For the last six months, the Greek government has been waging a battle under conditions of unprecedented economic asphyxiation, in order to implement your mandate, that of January 25th. The mandate to negotiate with…
The US intelligence establishment must have been very confident that their surveillance methods would never be discovered by the surveilled individuals in order to risk wiretapping European leaders. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand how on earth they decided to gamble those relationships with some of their closest European allies in exchange for information obtained…
