George Soros recently advised Germany to ‘Lead or leave’ the EU. One year after Poland’s Foreign minister Radek Sikorski called for a more proactive Germany in the Eurocrisis, Soros’s polemic statement summarises a dilemma Berlin...

July 2013 will see the accession of the 28th Member state to the EU – Croatia. After the latest monitoring report of the European Commission brought mixed results, several German politicians have voiced concern over Croatia’s...

Is there room for a European dream in a country captivated in the structures of IMF-EU adjustment programmes? Is more European integration desired and feasible at all? On November 17, 2012, the third seminar of the ‘Future of...

October 12, 2012 will enter into European history books as a landmark for the sixty-two year old political project; it is the date the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “the advancement of peace and reconciliation,...

Give European citizens a say is the conclusion German MEP Gerald Haefner draws when looking at the future of democracy in the European Union. In the face of a lack of trust and the crisis of European democracy, European citizens...