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One year into François Hollande’s Presidency, with the French media focusing on promises kept and broken at home, it’s time for a first appraisal of his track-record on Europe and France’s position in the EU....
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When the US Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies decided that Californian "Korbel Natural Russian River Valley Champagne" should be served at President Obama’s inauguration party, little did they know the diplomatic incident this would cause. The French were not amused....
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It is a frosty February morning in Brussels, though less icy than those two winters back in 2011 and 2012 which froze the lakes and brought the “capital of Europe” temporarily to its knees. The weather is matched by lingering pessimism over the world economy. The eurozone...
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So, the day has finally come. Tomorrow in London David Cameron will make #thespeech about Britain and Europe. After several false starts, and much leaking, it seems we are finally on. And now it really has to be the speech...
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One of the EU’s greatest strengths is the incentive it gives applicant countries to reform their economic and political systems before they are allowed to join. When ten countries from central and eastern Europe joined in 2004, it became a giant if uncontroversial box-ticking...