The European Union
European Union in crisis
December 11, 2008
At the centre of the growing tensions between Berlin, Paris and London is the question of how to react to the international financial crisis and global recession.
Sharp conflicts in Europe over economic stimulus program
By Peter Schwarz, December 3, 2008
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) has become the focus of criticism for her refusal to support a wide-ranging package of measures aimed at stimulating the European econ...
Britain: Labour’s secret plans for tax hikes and spending cuts revealed
By Chris Marsden, November 28, 2008
Leaked documents reveal that the Labour government contemplated raising Value Added Tax to 18.5 percent in Chancellor Alistair Darling’s pre-budget announcement.
European Union summit in Brussels: The EU prepares for Obama
By Peter Schwarz, November 10, 2008
More important than the vague proposals to regulate the financial markets was the demand of the Brussels gathering for a new world financial summit to be held in 100 days. The European heads of govern...
Sarkozy intends to partly nationalise “strategically important” companies
By Peter Schwarz, October 29, 2008
Right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to protect “strategically important” French enterprises against their take-over by foreign investors receives support from German “lefts.”
In wake of global financial crisis
Scottish nationalism’s perspective in tatters
By Steve James, October 28, 2008
The global financial meltdown has severely compromised the economic basis of the Scottish National Party’s strategy for independence.
German Social Democrats meet in the shadow of the financial crisis
By Ulrich Rippert, October 24, 2008
The special SPD congress last weekend took place in the shadow of the ever-growing international financial crisis.
Germany: Right wing seizes leadership of the SPD
The role of the Left Party
By Ulrich Rippert, September 17, 2008
The early appointment of Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as the SPD candidate for chancellor in next year’s federal elections, and the hurried change of party leader from Kurt Beck to F...
European elections could topple British Conservative Party leader
By Chris Marsden, May 29, 1999
The upcoming European elections could cost William Hague his position as Conservative Party leader. Whatever the outcome, it will deepen the longstanding divisions inside the party regarding its polic...
European elections highlight growth of regionalism
By Steve James, May 27, 1999
Next month's European elections highlight a further dramatic growth of regionally based parties and movements like the Northern League in Italy, the Scottish National Party and others. Given that many...
