Editorials

The election on 14th July of Pole Jerzy Buzek by 86% of the vote as President of the European Parliament was welcomed as an historic event. The chairman of the first Solidarity congress in 1981, then Prime Minister of his country for four years is a man worthy of respect and is much...

How hard it is to make progress! The European Union has become the battlefield of minor yet urgent national interests, the European Council meetings a place of bitter, technical negotiations. It is hard to distinguish a long term vision of Europe in this and it is even more difficult to find...

We would be wrong to believe that the issue of the re-appointment of the President of the European Commission is the focal point on the agenda of the European Council on 18th and 19th June. The concrete follow-up to be given to the G20 in London is long in coming. The Commission has put forward...

Europeans are voting to appoint their MEPs. It is the continental event that is attracting everyone's attention.  On this occasion the abstention rate, the rise of extremes – or not and the show of confidence or mistrust with regard to national governments will teach us a great...