Archive
Year: 2010
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A New Age for Europe or the Old Story?
February 13, 2010
It should be a time for celebration. The Lisbon Treaty has come into force, a new European Commission has been convincingly approved by the Parliament, the European Council has a permanent president and a European foreign policy structure has been created...
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Euro Credibility at Stake in Greek Economic Crisis
January 28, 2010
We’ve heard a lot about banks that are “too big to fail”. Perhaps a more immediate question is whether the sovereign nation of Greece is too big to fail. The risk of default and the threat of Greece quitting the eurozone would have profound implications for Europe’s monetary union, for other European countries wrestling with similar budget problems and for the EU as a whole. Meanwhile the markets continue to speculate on these worst-case scenarios...
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Twongressions to lose Democrats seats? Study on Twitter in Congress
January 15, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Our colleague Mark Senak's study on the use of Twitter by members of the US Congress has been making some waves in the media across the Atlantic in recent days. The main headline being that the Republicans are beating the Democrats in their use of the tool. We shall have to see what this means when it comes to the mid-terms. James...
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Ten Year Strategy Must be Blueprint for Change
January 10, 2010
In his first major initiative since taking up his new role on January 1 2010, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy has convened a summit for February 11 to prepare for the 2020 Strategy, a ten year programme for creating a more competitive Europe. But can these plans really achieve anything? Only if they lay the groundwork for far-reaching change and adaptation. It was of course the 2000 Lisbon Agenda which set out the first...