Jean-Claude Juncker

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, Thursday, April 23, 2020.   -   Copyright  Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via APWestern Balkans countries "belong in the European Union", Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stressed on Wednesday, without mentioning when the six counties might become member states.Von der Leyen made…

On November 16, 2019, the New York Times published over 400 documents classified as secret, which had previously been leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). These PDF files, known as the “China Cables”, prove one of the most horrific human rights violations of our times, according to…

As European and American economies awaken to the China dependency problem, the Luxury industry will find its new growth engine in emerging Asian markets Covid-19 is global, by now it is also self-evident that the coronavirus pandemic goes beyond mere health crisis, and it is also an economic pandemic as…

In April 2015, Carnegie Europe published an article that analyzed the global footprint of the EU. Looking at the period of the second European Commission of former president José Manuel Barroso, which ran from February 2010­ to October 2014, the article examined how the union deployed different foreign policy instruments…

On paper, Ursula von der Leyen could not be better cast for this moment in EU history: Brussels-born; trilingual in German, French and English; a three-time Cabinet minister; the first ever female European Commission president; and — a Hollywood scriptwriter could hardly dream it up — a trained medical doctor…

A few weeks ago, the European Union underwent a fundamental change: it ceased being a bloc of exclusively democratic states. Worse, leaders across Europe barely flinched. Prime minister Viktor Orbán's seizure of absolute power in Hungary at the beginning of April – under the cover of the coronavirus pandemic –…

One of the more interesting television series of the past decade is Occupied, an intelligent Norwegian nationalist political thriller now available on Netflix. It’s both an anti–European Union tribute to the Norwegian people and the near-utopian country they have built, and a clear-eyed critique of their increasing foolishness. Although played…

Europe slept and did not hear the first murmurs. A virus outbreak somewhere in China. No need to worry, said the Chinese government. Then a bang. The pandemic illustrates many aspects of the climate problem in condensed form: everything is connected - something goes wrong in a fish-market in Wuhan…

Led by our partners Civico Europa, political and cultural figures from across the continent call on the institutions and citizens of the EU to take action against the Hungarian Prime Minister's latest power grab, enacted on the pretext of combating the coronavirus epidemic. We Europeans need to fight two viruses,…

Led by our partners Civico Europa, political and cultural figures from across the continent call on the institutions and citizens of the EU to take action against the Hungarian Prime Minister's latest power grab, enacted on the pretext of combating the coronavirus epidemic. We Europeans need to fight two viruses,…