The European Parliament elections in May will show that EU officials in Brussels, and French president Emmanuel Macron, are out of touch with average Europeans, according to the Polish prime minister. News from EUobserver
Greece ‘normal’ again after end of crisis, EU says
EU commission says Greece to be treated like any other eurozone member after it exits its almost decade-old financial rescue programme. News from EUobserver
Life in Donetsk: Strange but also normal
ON MAY 11th, a balmy Sunday in Donetsk, people walked along the leafy boulevard, played with their children and sipped coffee in street cafés. Yet close by armed thugs in balaclavas guard a barricade fortified with barbed wire and tyres. A flag of the Donetsk people’s republic flutters atop an ugly ex-Soviet local government building. […]
Croatia and the European Union: More normal, and glummer
THE economy is stagnating, unemployment is rising and many young Croats are poisoned by hate. Some flirt with fascism, and the country is riven by intolerance of those “who think, live, pray, write and speak differently”. Not the rallying cry of an opposition leader, but the sober assessment of Ivo Josipovic, Croatia’s Social Democratic (SDP) […]