This article was first published on 2 November 2024 on Kirsty Hughes’s substack: https://kirstyhughes.substack.com/p/the-eu-in-the-world-rising-to-todays By Kirsty Hughes As Europeans look nervously towards the outcome of the US presidential election, there… Read More »
Just Transition is the Right Response to the Far Right
The Far Right’s success in this month’s European elections was not as absolute as many commentators claim and cannot provide cover for watering down the Green Deal. By David Gow… Read More »
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David Martin, President of the European Movement in Scotland, gave this speech when he was the opening speaker at Scotland’s first Festival of Europe at Summerhall Arts Centre, Edinburgh on… Read More »
EU Elections: Rising to the Democratic Moment?
Next week will see the last European Parliament plenary session before the start of the election campaign for a new European Parliament, with voting taking place in early June. After the elections, the EU juggernaut will move on to selecting a new European Commission and European Council president and agreeing a forward-looking five year strategic plan.… Read More »
Road to European elections: A stronger Europe in the world by 2030? (EM International)
The European Movement International is hosting a hybrid event (in Helsinki) in the run-up to the European elections in June 2024. This event is part of the “Road to European… Read More »
Protect democracy in Serbia, ensure free and fair elections
The mounting evidence that last December’s parliamentary elections in Serbia were not free and fair is consistent with the democratic decline experienced by a country that has been on the path… Read More »
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One of the main benefits of Brexit for the EU – apart from potentially that of getting rid of a big state perpetually demanding a special set of opt-outs – was to undermine those, mostly on the far-right end of the political spectrum, who were also calling for their country to leave the EU. … Read More »
The UK, Scotland & the EU: A European Parliament View
The latest European Conversations podcast. This episode is in conversation with Susanne Oberhauser, Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in the UK. We discuss a range of topics: what… Read More »