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Agnès Poirier: Italians have rejected Starbucks coffee | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
If one were to draw a map of the coffeehouses, one would have the general outline of the European idea.
Has Nabucco Sung Its Last?- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Is this the end of the Nabucco project?
Eurozine - National populism versus democracy - Antony Todorov
Populist movements are a threat not because they raise the issue of direct democracy, but because they advocate nationalist mobilisation based on xenophobia, writes Antony Todorov. Given the failure of the leftist projects of the twentieth century, it is telling that far-right populism is more anti-democratic in the new democracies of central and eastern Europe than in western Europe. Is populism identical to the crisis of democracy or rather a symptom of it?
A better way with referendums
Interesting idea: Is it possible to introduce a more deliberative approach when holding a referendum? Does "deliberative polling" make citizens more knowledgeable?
So much for bringing Europe closer to the people
Everyone is right and wrong at the same time...a tragic dilemma!
The Irish ‘no’ and the EU’s “nuclear”
Daniel Gros (CEPS) argues for "a radical solution – the other EU members should propose to leave the old EU and create a new one with the Lisbon Treaty as its founding document."
Joschka Fischer: Das vereinte Europa ist gescheitert
Joschka Fischer has no hope anymore...
EU: the most peaceful region in the world
Indeed an argument that should not be forgotten despite all the shortcomings of the EU...
Global Power Europe: The return of ‘History’?
"Do we—Europeans—have the political vision and will to make it happen? Do we want to remain the shapers of history, or would we rather continue under the delusions so ruefully picked apart by people like Kagan?" (...) On the present trajectory, of declining European military budgets; ill-equipped and under-prepared armed forces; poorly crafted foreign and security policies, particularly on the part of European Union Member States like Germany, Italy and Spain, one could be forgiven for thinking that the European Union’s future looks rather bleak. And as Kagan warns us, we need more than hope to prove them wrong..."
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