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Britain leaving the EU: Mr Jack’s Brexit
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Debating Brexit: Liberal democracy is everything but a fundamentalist belief
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Presidential election in Ukraine: Funny games
Kleine Zeitung (Graz) 2 -
European elections 2019: How gender balanced will the next European Parliament be?
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento) 1 -
Xi Jinping in Europe: Take away
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Advocating for a European army: The alternative to new Maginot lines
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European elections and gender balance: The gender gap at EU elections
EUobserver.com (Brussels) 16 -
Brexit countdown: A clockwork PM
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Britain leaving the EU: Hard Brexit could cost Europe and UK citizens up to 57 billion euro annually
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European Union neighbors: Eastern Partnership countries face little progress, backsliding in reforms
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Bulgaria: The opaque and profitable business around citizenship
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Brexit drama: Theresa’s dance
Kleine Zeitung (Graz) 2 -
Equal rights in politics: Women in Power
Der Spiegel (Hamburg) 19 -
Emmanuel Macron’s letter to Europeans: The Messiah
De Groene Amsterdammer (Amsterdam) 2 -
Brexit: Countdown
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Democracy in Central Europe: Hungary is now a Balkan country
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento) 88 -
Snap polls in Spain: Poll over poll
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Democracy in Hungary: First signs of waning support for Viktor Orbán
SGI news (Gütersloh) 2 -
Transparency International 2018 corruption index: Looking at European countries’ performance
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Guillaume Klossa and “We Europeans”: ‘What is at stake is the Enlightenment spirit and the very idea of progress’
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The EU and the political standoff in Venezuela: Star wars
Neues Deutschland (Berlin) 1 -
European elections 2019: Voters left out from the polls
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento) 1 -
The quest for EU passports: Brits leaving Brexit
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Juncker plan: Where are we with the Investment Plan for Europe?
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Aachen treaty: Vested
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Murder of Paweł Adamowicz: The roots of the hatred that is dividing Poland
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Brexit as a podcast: Cutting through the fog in the Channel
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Theresa May’s Brexit: Hamletic
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Romanian EU presidency: Already a missed opportunity for Bucharest?
Adevărul (Bucharest) 1 -
European elections: What prospects for the European Left?
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Citizen lobbying: Challenging MEPs to deregister EU parties for keeping in values breachers
The Good Lobby (Brussels) 1 -
The EU according to Viktor Orbán: “We are Europe’s future”
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EU-Italy: Brussels caught in Italian Catch-22
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Brexit deal: Dead end
Le Temps (Geneva) 2 -
Brexit deal: Near handshake
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Angela Merkel: The Caryatid
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Turkey’s strongman: Erdoğan’s extended clampdown
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Banks: The end of the Swiss tax haven?
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Brexit: Afloat
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Defence and human rights: Europe’s deadly silence on armed drones
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Europe and populism: It’s time for European politicians to grow up about immigration
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Hungary and fundamental rights: The Cashcow fights back
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General elections in Sweden: Doomsday postponed
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2018 State of the European Union speech: Counting Juncker’s words
EUobserver.com (Brussels) 2 -
Anti-corruption demonstrations in Romania: The diaspora has had enough
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Fallen bridge in Genoa: Fingerpointing
Het Financieele Dagblad (Amsterdam) 1 -
Anti-corruption: New tools at the service of civil society
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Poland and the EU: Three years of disputes
Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw) 5 -
Poland and the Rule of law: The arm-wrestling on Polish Supreme Court explained
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Brexit: Hard fall
Trouw (Amsterdam) 1
Safeguarding the faith in liberal democracy does not necessary mean giving in to the unfettered power of the majority. Political scientist Karel B. Müller sums up some arguments which seem to be underrepresented in the current debate on Brexit. 
Will parties run enough women, and will they be placed in electable positions on electoral lists? Besides electoral systems, determination and concrete action are required to incentivise female representation. Let’s take a look at where we are now, with the numbers in hand. 
A supporter of an integrated European defence as a corollary of a true foreign policy, former MEP Olivier Dupuis details here the characteristics that this army should have, as well as its legal and political bases. 
Women across Europe don't tend to vote as much in European elections, compared with men, posing questions on the growing gender gap in both politics and representation in the European Parliament. 
If the United Kingdom were to leave the European Union without a new deal, it could lead to billions of euro in losses to the European Union and British citizens. 
The European Union neighbors, Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries either were stagnant or stumbled in their efforts to meet EU norms and standards in 2017, the latest available data shows. 
In the run up to the European elections domestic scandals can have huge consequences, as their fallout is difficult to predict. It’s even worse if the scandal would have an international dimension. Such could be the case with the business with Bulgarian citizenship, which could embarrass more than one political force. This is why even information which normally should be public is considered a state secret. 
Sweden does it without a law, France does it with one. The proportion of women in European parliaments and cabinets is determined by a number of different factors. A comparison. 
The democratisation process of the Balkans and countries in the region is stagnating, or even going backwards. Serbia is now considered a “partly free” country, just like Hungary. 
Viktor Orbán’s nativist rhetoric and attacks on the constitution and the independent media have triggered international censure, but he has retained his strong standing in Hungary – until now. Has a turning point been reached? 
According to the 2018 TI Corruption perception index, Nordic countries are again global leaders in the fight against corruption. But looking at the data since 2012, Baltic countries appear to be the rising stars. 
Founder of EuropaNova and initiator of the civic movement Civico Europa, Guillaume Klossa has just published “Media for Good”, an essay on the media of the future, and has launched the public consultation “We Europeans”, in view of the European elections. 
Almost 17 million EU citizens live in a member state other than their country of origin. These citizens are entitled to vote for the European Parliament from where they reside, but almost none of them do so. It’s a wasted opportunity for a more transnational politics. 
As the fateful date for Britain leaving the EU comes closer, and with no sign of an orderly exit in sight, Britons are applying for EU citizenship in their thousands. 
In December 2018, the European Commission released the latest update concerning the results achieved by the Investment Plan for Europe, the so-called Juncker Plan. Besides sheer volumes of financing, we analysed the data to give a more qualitative overview of how resources were allocated and how many SMEs benefited from the plan in each EU country. 
The murder of Gdańsk mayor Paweł Adamowicz on 13 January occurred in a climate of violence which has gradually taken over public life in Poland – a country now deeply divided between supporters of the nationalist-populist government and their opponents, explains our correspondent. 
In his weekly podcast "Fog in the Channel", European journalist Stefan de Vries looks at how the Continent will survive isolation as the UK sets sail. 
Internal political conflicts and an absence of priorities could end up defining Romania’s leadership of the Council of the European Union, writes a political scientist in Bucharest. 
In this essay, political science scholar Arthur Moinet argues that the future of the European Left lies in ending its coalition with the EPP and proposing an ambitious political program based on environmental concerns and social progress. 
On 10 January, The Good Lobby submitted a complaint to the European Ombudsman denouncing the repeated failure by the European Parliament to address its demand. The civic startup wanted to verify whether the EPP and the ACRE groups might have breached EU law by keeping in Fidesz and the Law & Justice parties despite they have been clearly breaching fundamental rights. 
The European Union has launched infringement proceedings against Hungary for the non-respect of fundamental rights by Viktor Orbán’s government. Each year, Orbán, figurehead of Europe’s ultra-conservative right, sketches out his politics at a summer school in Băile Tuşnad, Romania. Analysing his speech helps us to better understand – without condoning – his vision of the world, of Europe and of democracy. 
Italy’s government, especially the populist Five-Star Movement (M5S), is on a collision course with the European Union. Where is the communication breakdown headed? 
Turkey plans to open what it dubs the world’s largest airport, a massive infrastructure project in keeping with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's outsized influence on national politics. But will he be able to retain his tight grip given the country’s economic situation? 
European banking activity is stalling in Switzerland, such that the country appears to be a less and less profitable financial centre. 
As EU member states rush to weaponize unmanned planes, those who monitor ‘collateral damage’ to civilian populations and abuses of international law brought about by extensive use of armed drones ask EU countries, as MEPs recently did, to set up a legal framework and to uphold human rights. 
Once again, right-wing populism is making waves in a European election. This time, the Sweden Democrats upset Swedish politics by expanding their share of the vote by about 5 percent, to the detriment of the centre-left and centre-right. Immigration was this election’s central theme, as it has been in numerous voting cycles across the continent. It is yet another episode of the festival of artful dodging that has become Europe’s immigration debate, say two Cambridge researchers. 
Contrary to what has been figured by most of the foreign media on the eve of the 9 September general election, with the far-right Sweden Democrats presented as the new kingmakers, the power to form a government lies in the parties at the centre. 
What do the most recurrent terms in the EU Commission president's annual speech at the European Parliament say about the present and future of the Union? 
On 10 August, more than 100,000 citizens rallied in Bucharest to protest against the rampant corruption that cripples the Social-Democrats-led government and makes thousands of educated young people flee the country in search for better opportunities. 
Presented recently at the the European Parliament, the Digiwhist platform is based on open data. Its tools allow users to navigate the world of European public tenders, and discover where corruption lurks. 
Since the end of 2015, relations between The European Union and the Polish government have been fraught with tensions concerning Warsaw's breach of the rule of law and fundamental European values. To bring some clarity to the issue, Biqdata provides the background. 
In this interview, Assistant Professor at the Department of European Law at the University of Warsaw Paweł Marcisz explains how the ruling Law and Justice party has tried to curb the Supreme Court so as to extend its control over the judiciary system – adding to the current conflict with the European Union over the respect of the Rule of law in Poland. - 1 of 90
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