ROME | via presseurop.eu | The EU is becoming a corrupt church where Germany rules by a dogmatic economic orthodoxy. Politics must take back control with a protestant schism coming from grass-roots initiatives, argues Italian La Repubblica.
By Skip Worden | In trying to have it both ways—an economic regime and a political union—Hollande was being political at the expense of his own proposal.
MADRID | By Carlos Díaz Guell | The future of Spain’s economic growth is uncertain, especially since the crisis has proved that many industries only worked when fueled by subsidies. Exports seem to be the country’s only hope and politicians are too busy fighting to make productivity, R&D investment or education a priority.
VALENCIA | By Cruz Sierra, editor at valenciaplaza.com | One thing is sure: the solution is not to be found in the current complex, over-bureaucratic contract system, or among those privileged classes who enjoy prerogatives that the public system cannot afford.
LONDON | By Victor Jimenez | Considering the recent turmoil in the Eurozone, it is unsurprising that intermediaries are concerned about overall global economic health.
PARIS | By Michel de Pracontal, via Presseurop.eu | Markets analysts often augur the failure of the EU project because of national and cultural diversity. But American researchers recently completed a study of genes from the European continent. Their conclusion: all of today’s Europeans are descended from the same ancestors.
Pessimists around the world repeat that the European Union is doomed because of structural weaknesses and the economic crisis. But in many fields, the EU holds its own against world powers like the United States and China, argue Mark Leonard and Hans Kundnani.
MADRID | By Antonio Sánchez-Gijón, capitalmadrid.com | François Hollande’s presidency has made little progress in convincing Berlin that the Eurozone will not recover if it has to implement further budget cuts.
BRUSSELS | By Alesio Pissano | Once upon a time the EU was a global leader in fighting climate change. In the last few years it has played a pivotal role in tackling CO2 emissions and boosting the green economy world wide. But, how is the economic crises affecting the EU’s green path?
LONDON | In a way, the Great English Euroscepticism was irrational until the Eurozone began to burst here and there, and the well-meaning rhetoric of the elites in Brussels and Strasbourg fell into a provincialism-stinking pit.