Angela Merkel can enjoy. Indeed, she won the legislative elections in Germany with a huge advance on the SPD party and its leader, Peer Steinbruck. With 43% of the votes, the CDU remains the first German party against 28% for the Social-democrats, 8.5% for the Greens, 8% for Die Linke (the Far-left) and only 4.5% … Continue reading
Fifty years ago was signed the Elysee Treaty symbolizing the reconciliation between France and Germany after centuries of more or less murderous rivalries during the WWI and II especially. Fifty years after, what remains of this important treaty within the Franco-German relations? Is the “Paris-Berlin” axe still relevant or seems to be old-fashioned inside a … Continue reading
As it was expected, the European Council failed to get an agreement on the 2014 – 2020 EU Budget. The EU-27, gathered on the last Thursday and Friday in Brussels, failed to agree on some points as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the EU civil servants’ salaries or the future of the R&D policy. In … Continue reading
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