“Europe is confronted with two apparently opposite forces. On the one hand, a centrifugal force expressed through nationalist and regionalist movements. On the other hand, a centripetal force requiring more European integration in view of today’s global challenges that no country or region can tackle alone, such as the refugee crisis, climate change or terrorism” […]

Brussels, 15th September 2015 We strongly condemn the lack of results of yesterdays’ Justice and Home Affairs Ministers meeting in Brussels where, once again, representatives from EU Member States demonstrated their incapacity to take collective action in times of crisis. It was April 19th when more than 800 refugees died in the Mediterranean. One month […]

Brussels, 10th September 2015     ​The first political​ly elected President of the Commission, in his first State of the Union address to the European Parliament, made an honest and emotional assessment of our Union. Predictably, Mr Juncker found it lacking on many fronts: “The Union is not in a good state, there is not […]