Europe, the ambivalent super-democracy

    Europe, the ambivalent super-democracy The European Union should be proud of the European Citizens’ Initiative. European Voice By Bruno Kaufmann 4/3/12, 10:03 PM CET Updated 4/12/14, 11:03 PM CET Once upon a time, José Manuel Barroso was very outspoken – and very proud. The president of the European Commission declared that the new European Citizens’…

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      News in Brief

      News in Brief European Voice 3/14/12, 11:00 PM CET Updated 4/23/14, 9:15 PM CET Slovak elections The centre-left Smer party won a parliamentary majority in Slovakia’s elections on Saturday (10 March). The prime minister will be Robert Fico, who led a coalition government in 2006-10. Low-carbon roadmap Poland refused to approve targets for reductions in…

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        Barroso rules the world!

        Barroso rules the world! From European Voice's Entre-Nous column 4/18/12, 9:04 PM CET Updated 4/23/14, 9:16 PM CET How important is the Commission president? “Had we but world enough, and time”, as the poet put it, then we would write a letter to José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, beseeching him not…

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          Member states resist ending diesel subsidies

          Member states resist ending diesel subsidies Commission wants to tax fuel based on CO2 levels. European Voice By Dave Keating 6/21/12, 7:01 AM CET Updated 4/12/14, 11:23 PM CET European Union finance ministers look set to reject a European Commission proposal to tax fuels based on their carbon dioxide emissions. But Algirdas Šemeta, the European…

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