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EU response to COVID-19: Every government for itself
La Libre Belgique (Brussels) -
Conference on the Future of Europe: A democratic and civic opportunity we cannot afford to miss
EurActiv (Brussels) -
Ireland after the general election: Sinn Féin’s day is yet to come
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European defence: How will the EU use deadly drones?
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European military presence in the Sahel: Searching for purpose
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VoxEurop editorial: The morning after
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Brexit: Independence day
De Volkskrant (Amsterdam) -
Schengen area: How will the new visa-free European travel system work
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Cas Mudde on the legacy of Roger Scruton: European conservatives mourn their intellectual hero
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The Giulio Regeni case: A European battle for truth and justice
EuropaNow! (Rome) -
Alberto Alemanno on Europe in 2020: Overambitious?
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Brexit: One more step towards Brexit
Kleine Zeitung (Graz) -
Eric Jozsef on Europe in 2020: Regain momentum, or scuttle the European Union
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Cas Mudde on Europe in 2020: Time for Europe to live up to its responsibilities
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After the general election in the UK: Scottish backstop
De Volkskrant (Amsterdam) -
Media and democracy: Call for respect for press freedom and journalistic independence in Europe
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The Von der Leyen Commission: How we got here
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento) -
European Citizens’ initiative: A democratic fiasco?
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Elections in Romania: How the diaspora behaves in the ballot box
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Political crisis in Malta: Justice is coming for Daphne
The Times of Malta (Valetta) -
"Sardines" demonstrations in Italy: November fool
La Repubblica (Rome) -
The Von der Leyen Commission: The new cabinet in figures
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European Parliament committees: Welcome to the EU engine room
EUobserver.com (Brussels) -
General election in Spain: The voice from the past
Cartoon movement (Amsterdam) -
EU members and the rule of law: Put the blame on the Visegrád 4
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General election in the UK: Moving towards the polls
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich) -
EU law violations: Everything you always wanted to know about infringement procedures – but were afraid to ask
OpenPolis (Rome) -
General election in Poland: Why did young people vote for the “national-liberals”?
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After the elections in Hungary and Poland: A few good reasons for Liberals to be cautiously optimistic
Visegrad Insight (Warsaw) -
Boris Johnson and Brexit: Ditch-digging
Público (Lisbon) -
Health and pollution: Cleaner air is still killing too many
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Smart cities and 5G networks: Massive data circulation challenges privacy and individual liberties
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Brexit: Beware the no-deal!
Alternatives économiques (Paris) -
International Rebellion demonstration: The fat cats man
Cartoon movement (Amsterdam) -
General election in Austria: Kurtz bungee jumping
Cartoon movement (Amsterdam) -
The Western Balkans after the European elections: Still in limbo
Eurozine (Vienna) -
The ECB and the recovery: Open letter to my German friends
Alternatives économiques (Paris) -
The ECB and the recession: Count Draghila
Cartoon movement (Amsterdam) -
After the European elections in Czech Republic: Fragmented polarisation and demise of the Left
Eurozine (Vienna) -
New government in Italy: First steps
Cartoon movement (Amsterdam) -
After the European elections in Spain: Europe still popular, but domestic issues prevail
Eurozine (Vienna) -
After the European elections in Bulgaria: Voters are politically resignated
Eurozine (Vienna) -
After the European elections in Finland: Peak populism
Eurozine (Vienna) -
State elections in Germany: No-brainer
Neues Deutschland (Berlin) -
After the European elections in Hungary: Fidesz wins big, but does not take it all
Eurozine (Vienna) -
Government crisis in Italy: What Salvini’s exit means for Europe
France Inter (Paris) -
After the European elections in Denmark: Pro-European parties trump nationalistic right
Eurozine (Vienna) -
After the European elections in Belgium: The North-South gap widens
Eurozine (Vienna) -
After the European elections in Lithuania: Slogans, promises and verbalism prevailed over critique and vision
Eurozine (Vienna) -
After the European elections in Greece: Keeping the country in Europe cost Syriza power
Eurozine (Vienna)
Besides its devastating impact on human health and the global economy, the coronavirus epidemic is also a live-action, real-time test of European member states’ capacity for coordination, at a time when intergovernmentalism prevails, lament three Belgium-based academics. 
With the departure of Britain, the European Union’s standing in the eyes of the world appears more vulnerable than ever. The Conference on the future of Europe is an opportunity that cannot be wasted by ignoring the power of civil society.
Despite its election victory, left republican party Sinn Féin is unlikely to lead the next Irish government. The British government will be breathing a sigh of relief.
The EU is working towards higher defence spending, greater defence capabilities, and closer military cooperation, but parliamentary oversight is not keeping up. This becomes especially clear when looking at the development and possible use of armed drones. 
On January French President announced a new Coalition for the Sahel, to tackle with the security and development challenges in the region. But public debate in some countries about why so many organisations and countries are engaging in the region and what they hope to achieve has been lacking. 
Brexit has finally happened. What responsibility does the media have in this democratic debacle? 
Set to enter into force next year, the ETIAS scheme aims at speeding up traveling authorisation for travellers from countries which do not require a visa. In this regard, it looks pretty much like the US ESTA. But there is still some confusion on how it works, so here we have a closer look at it. 
As conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic mourn the passing of Roger Scruton, political scientist Cas Mudde argues that the British philosopher’s relevance to “national conservatism” has long since expired. 
Four years after the death of the young Italian researcher, EuropaNow! asks European cities to demand that the Egyptian government explain the circumstances around his brutal murder. 
As the EU enters a new policy cycle, Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law & Policy at HEC Paris, and member of VoxEurop's supervisory board, Alberto Alemanno offers five predictions. 
For the co-founder of EuropaNow! and member of VoxEurop's supervisory board, the Conference on the Future of Europe taking place this year may be the last chance for the European Union to make the leap towards a fully democratic European federation. 
Geopolitically isolated but economically strong, the EU should enter the new decade by finally becoming an independent global player, defending its institutions and values, says political scientist Cas Mudde. 
At the conference it is organising in Paris on 6 December, the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) joined forces with other organisations defending press freedom to call on European institutions and governments to adopt effective measures to protect the Fourth estate for the sake of democracy. VoxEurop joins the call. 
After months of delays, the von der Leyen Commission is finally set to take office on the first of December. What did the last few months involve, and why did it take so long? 
Eventually, European policy makers and MEPs greeted the start of the new European Commission’s term under the leadership of president, Ursula von der Leyen. In September, Von der Leyen mentioned that the priority of the Commission’s team would be to revive Europe’s democracy. However, it might need to break with the past if it plans to achieve. 
At the latest Romanian presidential elections, almost one million Romanians voted from abroad, largely by casting their ballots in more than 800 polling stations open from Friday through Sunday. A visual exploration of the data. 
More than two years after the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, public pressure and the tireless work of her colleagues to continue her investigations are beginning to bear fruit. The alleged instigator, his links with the authorities, and the corruption that plagues the archipelago have come to light, plunging Malta into an unprecedented political crisis. 
The new EU Commission led by president-elect Ursula von der Leyen is now finally set, with all 26 commissioners having being vetted by the European parliament. MEPs should give their green light on 27 November. Here's an updated overview of the new EU cabinet composition. 
Welcome to the EU engine room: the European Parliament's 22 committees, which churn out hundreds of new laws and non-binding reports each year and keeps an eye on other European institutions. 
The World Bank’s worldwide governance indicators provide useful data about the evolution of the perceptions within EU countries as to how much agents abide by the rule of law. Based on this data source, Southern European countries appear more problematic than Visegrád ones. 
What happens when a country does not respect its legal obligations towards the EU? Which countries are the least diligent? What is the area with the highest number of offences recorded? Our partners from OpenPolis developed InfringEye, a data-driven tool that makes it easier for journalists and citizens to understand the EU's infringement mechanisms, and to monitor past and ongoing procedures. 
Poland’s ultraconservative Law and Justice party (PiS) held on to power in legislative elections on 13 October. But the real surprise of the election was the score of Konfederacja, a party even further to the right, which attracted a lot of the youth vote. We look at their motives. 
While the dominant parties have cemented their power both in Hungary and Poland, the elections of last Sunday signal that the regimes built by Jaroslaw Kaczyński and Viktor Orbán are on the defence. 
The latest European Environment Agency report shows air is getting cleaner in Europe, but persistent pollution, especially in cities, still damages people’s health and the economy. 
The 5G networks that are being deployed all around Europe can provide urban citizens with sustainable living, reduced traffic and stringent security but the technology can also be a slippery slope towards mass surveillance 
The undoing of decades of UK-EU integration will mean huge economic disruption on both sides. 
Meanwhile, timing is everything in the Western Balkans. Just days after the vote, the European Commission published its annual report on the prospects for EU enlargement in the region. This may well focus minds on the delicate issues that the region’s countries face, though the EU’s own lack of consensus about the way forward may prove a major obstacle to their resolution. 
Not without reason, Germany is demanding a change of direction for the European Central Bank. The best way forward, however, would be to start by giving up on imposing austerity on the whole eurozone, believes columnist Guillaume Duval. 
It was surprising just how much of a trouncing the Czech Left took in the European elections. The Social Democrats were the country’s major governing party from 1998 to 2006 and from 2014 to 2017, thereafter a minor partner in the government. In May they lost all of their seats in the European Parliament, got just 3.95 percent of the vote. 
The European elections have confirmed beyond doubt that Spanish voters remain consistently pro-European, but domestic issues – and the forming of a new coalition government – still dominate the political agenda. 
Average turnout across the European Union may have been just over 50 percent last May, the highest for two decades. But Bulgaria returned a record low for the country of just 32.64 percent. 
The results of the European elections in Finland confirm that peak far-right populism is upon us, as already evident in the national elections held in April. Which is to say that the Finns Party could only muster a slight gain from 13 to 14 percent, retaining two out of the country’s 13 seats in the European Parliament. 
When Viktor Orbán left the voting booth on 26 May, he expressed high hopes for anti-immigration forces in the European elections. 
The removal from the Italian government of Matteo Salvini’s far-right Lega strips the European populist parties of their "showcase". It is a second setback after the break-up of the right-wing extremist coalition in Austria. But this does not mean that the causes of their existence have disappeared. 
An increasingly pro-European mood in Denmark has dealt the nationalist populist Danish People’s Party a severe blow. 
Two major tendencies dominate Belgium’s political landscape after the European elections. These are shaped by a moderate red-green wave among the Francophone population and a rather more concerning wave of nationalism and xenophobia in Flanders. 
In Lithuania there is felt to be a distinct lack of constructive criticism of the way the EU works and of any robust vision concerning its future. 
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras' coalition paid the price for implementing the harsh austerity conditions of the third bailout programme, losing both the European and national elections within a few months. - 1 of 92
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