State of the Union: A call for more solidarity

An EU27 that doesn’t focus on more equality, more opportunities and more solidarity for its citizens, is an EU that risks repeating the same mistakes again that led to a decade of austerity and a vote to leave by one of its Member States. The Commission needs to understand this if it is to play the leading role that Juncker envisions.

Whoever lives here, comes from here

With less than ten days to go before the German federal elections, the “Schulz train,” a popular meme from the beginning of the election campaign, has long since halted and the Social Democrats are now far behind the Christian Democrats in the polls.