Europact - Life in the new bloc(k)

Published on 25 March 2011 at 16:39

Europact

Life in the new bloc(k)

Rzeczpospolita

The europact, which the EU’s 27 member states are discussing today in Brussels, will pave the way for a complete overhaul "of the European economic bloc(k)." To ensure that it will able to weather stormy conditions on financial markets, the chief architects, France and Germany, are emphasising functionality and security over variety.

 

Debate

Leviathan is here, in Brussels

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Brussels is the lair of a bureaucratic monster, writes the German essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It’s up to the Europeans themselves now to take up their pitchforks.

 
 

Environment

Nuclear debate radiates to Poland

Polska The Times

 
 

European Council

Portugal overshadows Irish bank meltdown

Irish Independent

 
 

Cartoon

Debt summit

Martyn Turner
 

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