European Power

For a European Republic

  • Robert Menasse
  • Commentary

Whether political leaders or citizens, the pragmatics have failed to build a prosperous and wholly democratic EU. The system we live in neither provides for nor admits any legitimate representation for the citizens of Europe. Now it’s the turn of the dreamers. Today, they are the true realists.  

Europe’s misgovernment

  • José Ignacio Torreblanca
  • Commentary

The Cypriot crisis has made it brutally clear just how bad misgovernment with the EU – and the eurozone – really is. The only way to fix this is for genuine banking, fiscal, and economic union within the eurozone, backed by legitimate political instruments.  

Bulgaria’s anger, the real source

  • Dimitar Bechev
  • Commentary

An escalating crisis in Bulgaria marked by street-protests across the country forced the government's resignation. But the instant wisdom that financial austerity caused it is misleading.  

Europe has lost its citizens

  • José Ignacio Torreblanca
  • Commentary

The latest Eurobarometer figures are showing clearly what the election results have been hinting at: hit by the crisis, Europeans have lost their confidence in the EU. After having saved the euro, we must rescue the legitimacy of the EU.  

7 Mar

European Union = Eurozone?

  • ECFR Warsaw

Will the Eurozone become the real European Union in a few years with the rest of the EU member states forming just a periphery of Europe’s core? What will this core look like and which rules will it apply?

The Europeanisation of America

  • Mark Leonard
  • Commentary

The two giant economies – Europe and the US – are no longer as different as they once were. Austerity and the prospect of decline have brought them back together.