By Hans Mund
Two figures of the Eurozone safer team: Van Rompuy and Italien's Prime Minister Mario Monti
The coming week that starts on Monday 23rd, can be considered as the kick-off for the year 2012 when it comes to EU politics. It will be the first real working week of the Danish Presidency. It is the start of the last 6 months of the first permanent Council Presidency of Herman van Rompuy. It started with the meeting of the Finance Ministers of the Eurogroup members last Monday, the financial compact drafted and released by Van Rompuy, was discussed. For the Danish presidency, it will be the first test in acting as “the bridge over troubled water”; in itself, it is not a member of the Eurozone , but Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her Minister for European Affairs Nicolai Wammen are aware of what is ahead of them and intend on getting a solution soon.
26:1 – A fiscal Union in the European
Wednesday, January 25 2012 By kit | Galaxy Europe
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Europe Past Forward video challenge
Tuesday, January 17 2012 By manajan | Galaxy Europe
If you are between 18 and 30, have a creative eye and feel like you could do with the € 5,000 Video Challenge first prize, then Europe Past Forward is for you!
The European Economic and Social Committee invites you to submit a video where you answer the question of the competition: "What does Europe mean to you?".
"It is a deliberately open question to enable the kinds of diversity of culture, thought and contribution that we Europeans are so rightly proud of", states Anna Maria Darmanin on her blog.
You can submit your video URL on the competition's website until 15 February. Public voting will end beginning of March.
Take 1, start the camera!
Cafebabel Brussels is recruiting an Editorial Officer
Tuesday, January 10 2012 By blog.bruxelles | Job vacancies
This post is also available in: French
Cafebabel Brussels is currently looking for its new EDITORIAL OFFICER (unpaid trainee position) from February onwards and for a period of 3 or 6 months. Preference will be given to candidates entitled to a grant (i.e. Leonardo or other).
Do you happen to be a master in writing breath-taking articles? Are you a student in Communication or Journalism, interested in everything Europe is and will be and in everything that’s happening in Europe? Then you may well be the one we are looking for!
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From Doha with love: the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum awards cafebabel.com
Monday, December 12 2011 By manajan
Today cafebabel.com won third prize for the Intercultural Innovation Awards in Doha, Qatar at the occasion of the 4th United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum.
This prize was given by Princess Rym Ali of Jordan to cafebabel.com for our outstanding contribution to Intercultural journalism with our annual series of Europe on the ground projects, which some of you have participated in as writers and translators.
This is world wide recognition for cafebabel.com and the outstanding work we are all doing - whether it is thanks to you as volunteers across Europe or the team of professionals in Paris.
Congolese riots in Brussels
Sunday, December 11 2011 By kit | Galaxy Europe
By Davide Martinotti and Lisa Kittel
Photos: Davide Martinotti
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Is sleepy Europe going one step forward?
By Dominique | Galaxy Europe
By Dominique Strzyz
Photo Davide Marinotti
Friday morning, sleepy European leaders appeared after 10 hours of all-night negotiations, to explain the conclusions they will take home with them. Thursday night there was no time to sleep on it because the conclusions have to come out before the stock markets wake up, which is normally 9h30 in the morning. What do we have by this time?
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“Europe at a crossroads”. After the EU Summit, a lesson from the past
By kit | Galaxy Europe
By Cristina Mariani
“The debilitating effects of two bloody wars and the weakening of Europe's position in the world brought a growing realisation that only peace and concerted action could make the dream of a strong, unified Europe come true. … A start was made with a coal and steel community. Other economic activities, such as agriculture, were subsequently added in. A genuine single market was eventually established forgoods, persons, services and capital, and a single currency was added in 1999. On 1 January 2002 the euro is to become a day-to-day realityfor 300 million European citizens.”
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With or without him
By kit | Galaxy Europe
By Lisa Kittel
“Will there be another summit this year?”, a question put to Merkel afterthe summit finished yesterday. It’s true that there have quite been a lot meetings of late at the European Council. Merkel already seems to know every single correspondent by face, and eventually might even notice if they get their hair cut. As familiar as the press conference appears as familiar is the main topic: the Euro crisis.
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The EU says “nein” to Serbia
Saturday, December 10 2011 By kit | Galaxy Europe
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By Tanja Milevska
European leaders have not given candidate status to Serbia. “Unwise decision” for some…This last European Council of heads of states and governments of the EU will have displeased many, not only inside the EU but also among those waiting at its doors, such as some candidates to enlargement. The first one is Serbia, who has been sent back to the European waiting room for at least three more months.
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Welcome Croatia!
Friday, December 9 2011 By Dominique
By Elena de Pascual
It is official. Croatia is in the European Union. Following six years of negotiations, Croatia today signed the Accession Treaty during the most significant European Council Summit meeting of 2011. It will become the twenty-eighth Member State of the European family on July 1, 2013.
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Energy savings, assistance for crisis
By kit | Galaxy Europe
This post is also available in: French
By Lucía Martín Noya
As part of the European Summit, where the protagonists are the crisis and the incorporationof Croatia, the Council will also discuss the Directive for energy efficiency. The adoption of this proposal could provide great benefits not only in environmental but also economic. What is the subject of the Directive?
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EU Summit: our last slow dance together?
By Dominique | Galaxy Europe
This post is also available in: French Dutch
By Dominique Strzyz
Photo: Davide Martinotti
Waiting for the dancing queen
The Merkozy duet proposes to open the music box of the Lisbon Treaty whether we dance with 27 or with 17. But what can we dance together to persuade the maestros of financial markets that we are dancing to the same melody? The leaders of 27 EU members are gathered today in Brussels to resolve this urgent question. And it is very probable that the summit will continue much longer than Friday afternoon as originally scheduled.
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Two-speed Europe, maximum speed or no speed at all?
By kit | Galaxy Europe
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By Joan Manuel Lanfranco Pari
Translation: Davide Martinotti
The idea of different speeds for integration has accompanied the history of the EU in last decades. As a matter of fact, the EU already works at different speeds. For instance the Schengen Treaty, with all EU member states except for Ireland and the UK participating. The EU Summit starting today is expected to add a new dimension to the idea of a two-speed Europe, as regards euro area members. The proposals tabled by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy talk about further fiscal union between the 17 euro area member states, as well as the possibility to hold monthly Eurozone summits until the crisis is solved.__
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Merkel wants to go forward - and blocks
Thursday, December 8 2011 By kit | Galaxy Europe
Photo: Davide Martinotti
Prior to the informal meeting, few heads of state were talkative. Angela Merkel then made a spontaneous statement about the evening’s proceedings...
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A European summit under high tension
By kit | Galaxy Europe
This post is also available in: French
By Aurélie Feller
Photo: Davide Martinotti
At 7:30 p.m. the 27 Heads of State will begin their discussion during an extended working dinner that is likely to be tense! The leaders have the obligation to produce results on the issue of economic governance, as the whole of Europe is now under the watchful eye of Standard and Poor’s rating agency. They will also have to figure out how to put aside their contrasting points-of-view of recent months in order to move forward. For many people, and as Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated this afternoon, this summit is the last opportunity!
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"Financial anarchic-capitalism?": a pedagogical interview before the next summit
Tuesday, December 6 2011 By kit | Galaxy Europe
By Cristina Mariani
After the last Eurogroup meeting, on 30th December, Commissioner Olli Rehn, in charge of Economic and Monetary Affairs, warned Eurozone governors to complete the crisis response of the European Union within a 10-days period of time, or they will have to face the risk of the disintegration of the European Union itself. On the 8-9th December, EU leaders will meet again for another urgent “make or break” summit. In addition to the signing of the Croatian accession treaty, they will review the overall economic situation in Europe and try to reach a consensus to prevent bailout contagion. “Apocalypse Euro”?
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European Socialists on the crisis: It's the conservatives fault!
By Dominique | Galaxy Europe
By Dominique Strzyz
At a time when the markets dictate who is going to govern nations, when our democracy seems weaker and weaker, the Party of European Socialists organised a PES Convention last 25 and 26 November in Brussels. The aim was to give some impetus and support to European Socialists who are amongst the biggest political losers in the crisis. Have they presented us with a credible alternative for these hard times, dominated by austerity doctrine and the prevalence of markets?
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Save Europe’s workers: Communication and other challenges
Thursday, November 24 2011 By kit | Galaxy Europe
By Lisa Kittel
When you arrive in Bilbao, it’s impossible to feel stressed. I mean, I've tried: A day of waiting, flight, waiting, flight, waiting, bus... Looking for a hostel in the middle of the night in Bilbao was dreamlike. A city of calm, full of green spaces, where men clean the streets with water until they are spotless. The few people still on the streets were friendly and relaxed. If a city as a whole could be considered a workplace, there is probably no better ambiance than in Bilbao for the “Healthy Workplaces Summit on Safe Maintenance”. They must do something right there.
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Young Greeks NOT Adrift
By Dominique
By Par Maryse Williquet
Translated by Danica Jorden
It all started 6 December 2008, when Alexis was killed by the police in the Exarchia neighbourhood in the heart of Athens. That was partly what really set off the social mobilisation of young Greeks. But in addition to this tragic event, the decreasing value of the diplomas and purchasing power of the ‘’700 Euro Generation’’ were also being protested in the streets.
Today, three years later, as Europe points its finger at Greece, blaming it for the financial crisis affecting the continent, what has happened to these young protestors and what is their present situation?
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Why the ‘’Indignados’’ Movement is Not Happening in Belgium
By Dominique
By Pauline Michel
Translated by Danica Jorden
The ‘’Indignados’’ movement, first started 15 May in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, has not ceased to grow in the countries of Southern Europe. It has become very popular in Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy. However, it has hardly taken off in France, Germany or our country of Belgium. On 15 October, movement protests were held here and there around the world, but with differing levels of participation. For example, 600,000 people were counted in Barcelona, but only 35,000 in Paris. It was the same story on 11 November, the second worldwide ‘’Indignados’’ day of protest. Generally, the level of indignation is highest where the effects of the economic crisis are being felt the most, but especially where leftist governments already in power have not been able to respond to the urgent questions the crisis poses.
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