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30Mar

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United Kingdom

Brexit Served: UK, EU to Face Off Over Exit Details, €60 Bln Debt

NOVANEWS British Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the EU treaty on Wednesday, formally launching the Brexit process. The Brexit letter was later delivered by the UK's Permanent Representative to the EU Tim Barrow to European Council President Donald Tusk. Nine months after the June 2016 referendum on Britain’s exit from the European Union, London is bracing for tense talks with Brussels on the exit deal that could cost it hundreds of billions of euros. It is estimated that Brexit would cost the United Kingdom around 60 billion euros ($65 billion) that London would have to pay to the European Union under the existing agreements. Hard Brexit Prime Minister Theresa May has opted for a tougher exit from Europe. London is opposed to the free movement of labor, refu...

5Mar

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Europe

Juncker to Member States: We Need To Talk!

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini Bulgaria Is Not Catching Up With EU Peers on Income Convergence The Debate on the EU - Informed vs. Uninformed, or Intentionally Misleading The Battle for the EU - Liberalism vs. Illiberalism What is wrong with the EU? It is the product of compromise, the result of which is complex legislation, with many exceptions, which creates pockets of integration and practically just the illusion of a single market and community in general. Compromise is deeply embedded in the fabric of the EU, but this fabric has become very diverse. In the beginning, compromises needed to be made between countries with similar views, value systems, which saw their development in the same direction. With EU enlargement and the growth of populism and euroscepticism compromise has become...

9Jan

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EU Did Not Commit Suicide. It Is Reinventing Itself

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini The EPPO Might Not Be Ready By Year End Head-on Collision Between Brussels and Member States Regarding EU's Global Strategy Rule of Political Validity, or Orbán's Way towards Illiberalism The year 2016 started off quite depressing for the European Union. At the very beginning of the year forecasts started piling in of the impending suicide of the Union, and not just by anybody, but by its institutional leaders. euinside’s text about the upcoming suicide was the most-read one for the entire year 2016. Causes for the European political elite’s depressive condition were the refugee crisis, the economic aftermath of the crisis, and the upcoming Brexit. The Union, however, did not commit a suicide. Quite the contrary. Not only did it refuse to commit suicide, but ...

4Jan

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EU Has Lost Its Transformative Power. Enlargement Hits a Dead End

NOVANEWS By: Adelina Marini Crime Without Punishment - a Contemporary Balkan-Global Novel Is Trump a Product of Democracy, or Tyranny? Fear of a Major Shift in Geopolitics Reigns in the Balkans Following Trump's Win For the first time in the recent history of EU enlargement the year ended without conclusions for the candidate countries. This is one of the biggest news of the December European Council, held on 15 December in Brussels. Traditionally, every December, the leaders of the member states view the progress of candidates and reach conclusions which, usually, overlap with the conclusions of the European Commission in its progress reports. However, 2016 marked the beginning of the end of the enlargement process as we have known it. Latest developments, especially in Turkey, cle...

14Nov

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EU Is Falling into Global Loneliness Following Trump’s Victory

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini EU Is Not London, Prague or Lisbon but Brussels The EU-US Trade Agreement - Is It the Agreement of the 21st Century? Europe in the Real World It was not until after the USA presidential elections that the EU began to realise that it is left on its own, despite President Barack Obama trying to say it to his European partners on numerous occasions. Donald Trump’s victory is a great opportunity for the EU to deepen its integration in the sphere of defence and security, but is this even possible today? The first reactions following the announcement of the election result bring hope, although, so far, they only show the direction, not the unity. They also demonstrate that something very big has happened, which requires going out of the usual protocol congratulatio...