Herman Michiel und Klaus Dräger december 2024 Nach sechsmonatigem politischen Gerangel mit dem Europäischen Parlament hat die neue von der Leyen-Kommission am 1. Dezember 2024 ihre Arbeit aufgenommen. Ist…
Fortress Europe gets more guns and deeper moats with von der Leyen II
Klaus Dräger and Herman Michiel (*) 31 dec 2024 After six months of political wrangling with the European Parliament, the new von der Leyen Commission started its work on…
The new EU Commission: an ‘European War Deal’ next?
Klaus Dräger and Herman Michiel November 2024 At their summit meeting at the end of June 2024, the European heads of state and government (the European Council)…
Das neue Europäische Parlament bestätigt seine militaristische Gesinnung – Eine Nachbetrachtung –
von Herman Michiel und Klaus Dräger August 2024 Im Juni 2024 wurde ein neues 720-köpfiges Europäisches Parlament gewählt, das vom 16. bis 19. Juli in Straßburg seine erste…
The new European parliament confirms its militaristic credentials
Herman Michiel and Klaus Dräger (*) August 2024 A new 720-headed European Parliament was elected in June, and it held its first plenary session in Strasbourg from 16 to…
Taking left-wing victories to proper value
9 July 2024 – There have been a number of recent electoral results that can rightly be described as left-wing successes. In France, the ‘Nouveau Front Populaire’ was able…
Outrageous: Orbán wants peace in Ukraine
Herman Michiel 4 July 2024 The ‘rotating presidency’ of the EU Council passed from Belgium to Hungary on 1 July. This means that the meetings of that Council…
East, West, who fakes best?
H. Michiel, 18 June 2024 During the election period, the EU had pulled out all the stops to intercept “disinformation actors from inside and outside the EU” as…