Mike Hauxwell: Scotland is not the same place it was just five years ago
29. August 2015 European Dialogue Think-tank in cooperation with European News in Slovakia is bringing to you a special interview with Mike Hauxwell. Mike Hauxwell is a Scot and a teacher from Edinburgh. Professionally, he started his career in the field of mental health and history but about 10 years ago embarked...
Polish presidential elections and Poland’s future in the EU
2. June 2015 The final round of presidential elections took place on Sunday 24.04.2015, with the result of the current ruling president Bronislaw Komorowski losing to the Law and Justice Party’s (PIS) Andrzej Duda. The victory of Duda’s Law and Justice Party is the latest in a series of electoral victories for...
Debate over the death penalty in Hungary and what this means to the EU
22. May 2015 What is the death penalty? What is the state of “capital punishment” according to EU law? Why is there a proposal to reopen the debate about Capital Punishment in Hungary? These are the questions that I’ve decided to answer after writing the title of this article. What is the...
UK General elections and the EU; in or out?
19. May 2015 The United Kingdom general election of 2015 was held on 7 May 2015 to elect the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom. Local elections took place in most of England on the same day, excluding Greater London. It was the first general election to be held at the end...
The United States and the EU: America’s role in EU crisis management
3. May 2015Both actively present, America and the EU are the biggest world actors in several international spheres, especially in the economic and the political spectrum. Sharing a common goal of asserting global dominance and spreading western culture, they have been cooperating for a long time. In 1990, the Transatlantic Declaration formalized...
Currency wars and the EU
11. April 2015According to Guido Mantega, the Brazilian Minister for Finance, a global currency war broke out in 2010. Other senior policy makers and journalists suggested the phrase "currency war" overstated the extent of hostility. With a few exceptions such as Mantega, even commentators who agreed there had been a currency war...
Iran vs the EU in the political spectrum
23. March 2015 Born in midst of a recovering Europe, the EU was created to agree to a ceasefire, to stop the growth of loss and damage. With 28 inter-independent members, the EU was formed to begin the process of cleaning up, to let Europe finally heal after the two world wars...
Iran-EU Relations
14. March 2015 According to the official European Union website, “the EU is a unique economic political partnership between 28 countries that together cover much of the continent.” With interdependent members, this organization was established in the aftermath of the Second World War, mostly to encourage and increase economic cooperation and to...