Administrator @ June 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
French president Nicolas Sarkozy warned that further EU expansion was impossible without ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. The treaty is meant to streamline EU operations, and give the EU a bigger, more united, voice on the world stage. Irish voters rejected the treaty, with a large percentage admitting they do not know what exactly the [...]
Administrator @ June 2, 2008 # 3 Comments
A group of new members of the European Union are pressing the EU to recalculate CO2 emission targets, to take into account their progress in previous years. Currently the year 2005 is used to base calculations on. Hungary, which is spearheading the effort, insists that it is unfair to ignore previous gains by the former [...]
Administrator @ May 31, 2008 # One Comment
According to a new UN report, the notoriously violent Balkans are now safer than Western Europe. Crimes such as rape and burglary have dropped dramatically amid stabilizing economies and political systems. Two Balkan countries joined the European Union in 2007, Romania and Bulgaria. The report states that crime against citizens and their property is now [...]
Administrator @ December 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It won’t surprise many: Britons are least positive about the European Union according to a Eurobarometer survey. British citizens are known to be mostly eurosceptic. Joining them at the top of the list are Austrians and Latvians, with a majority having..