There is a new paradigm for EU International Cooperation: with a geopolitical focus and a new financial instrument, the newly formed EU Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) is interested in bilateral cooperation and joint programming Team Europe programmes. At the end of 2019, when the current European Commission took office, several changes in the […]
Europe has done more in the first four weeks of the Coronavirus crisis than it did in the first four years after the crash of 2008. The Recovery Plan for Europe, which aims to repair the social and economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, will be the largest stimulus package ever financed through the […]
For most of the EU, nothing has changed due to Brexit. We go on with our busy lives and the pandemic currently occupies most of our attention. Why bother with Brexit anyway, when the economy suffers either way and in much worse ways than Brexit ever could? In a way, Brexiteers were spared a lot […]
Despite it being almost a whole year since that long-dreaded Brexit D-Day rolled around, New year’s eve 2020 marked even more than the end of a year we are all very happy to see the back of… It also marks the official end of freedom of movement between the UK and the EU. To mark […]
The corona virus is everywhere across the world. To defeat it, a global approach and cross-border coordination is needed. It is not enough to fight the virus at home; we have to take action beyond our borders, otherwise the threat will remain. As Josep Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security […]
Photo courtesy of the European Commission. As in previous crises, the Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the lack of economic “punch” that we have in Spain. Here, our commitment to tourism means that if we do not reverse it soon, that we remain at the mercy of the so-called frugal countries… Just to confirm, we are […]
The aviation sector, represented in its best form by the massive market of air travel, is alive and well in Europe. But now that Europe is changing fast – from Brexit to the climate crisis – how will this affect the way that we travel? Today, air travel is cheaper and safer than ever before, and the aviation sector is one of the most important sectors in the world’s economic landscape. […]
When describing our diverse EU family, we love to gush about the likes of Paris, Budapest or Prague – but what about those further-afield places, whose name you may not know? Rural areas account for approximately 77% of all EU territory. Despite this, it’s the big cities that tend to receive the most attention in […]
After four long years of Leave-Remain battle – from the referendum campaign, the voting day, and all of the chaos since then – from the resignations of David Cameron and Theresa May, to the re-election of Boris Johnson, and all of the anticipation and #Regrexit in between – is it all finally over? (Spoiler alert: […]
Okay, so Brussels itself is extremely diverse. But head to the EU quarter and any large building there sporting blue starry flags, and it’s a different story. We hear a lot about the flaws of the EU institutions these days – with Brexit (yet again) fast approaching, and the world arguably having more of an […]