by András Baneth | Jun 12, 2013 | Brussels, EU Institutions, EU Politics, Featured |
Public opinion has become an important social and economic “actor” in the current financial and economic crisis, and that is one of the most important findings of the survey carried out by the Pew Research Center, an American think tank, on the attitudes of Europeans....
by András Baneth | Apr 30, 2013 | Brussels, EU Policy, Featured |
What in the world is a ‘banking union’? How should one imagine the planned EU banking union? Will there be one or several united or merged banks in Europe forming a genuine union? Definitely not. Banking union means something different, namely the building...
by András Baneth | Mar 23, 2013 | EU Policy, Featured |
Are you the owner of a medium-sized European company that exports to the US? Do you work at the European unit of an American multinational firm that has significant investments in the EU? Or, more generally, do you buy goods and services based on their quality,...
by András Baneth | Mar 8, 2013 | Featured |
Remember the famous saying of George Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire? He once said during the euro crisis that the euro is an “omelette”. He meant that even if the common currency area has a number of systemic flaws that have been revealed during the crisis,...
by András Baneth | Feb 13, 2013 | EU Policy, Featured |
(Re-published with permission from EU Issue Tracker) The European Commission last week proposed new legislation on energy efficiency. The proposal includes obligatory energy efficiency targets for Member States, specific requirements for public bodies and measures to...
by András Baneth | Sep 17, 2008 | EU Policy, Featured |
A Belgian newspaper (source unknown as we only received a clipping from a friend) recently gathered what EU employees tend to think about Belgium and more specifically, Brussels…and also found out what the locals think of the “lazy, wealthy expats'”....