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7th Nov 2016

  1. Focus
  2. Europe in Review 2014

TTIP's teflon coat wears thin

The prospect of an EU-US trade agreement was one of relatively few sources of comfort for EU lawmakers about the bloc’s struggling economy in 2013.

Focus

Europe in Review 2014

EUobserver, in its second annual review, looks back at the main events of 2014: Russia's annexation of Ukraine; the selection of the EU's new top cadre; separatism in Europe and more. Order your copy here.

News in Brief

  1. Italy's Five-Star tours Europe to sink Renzi's referendum
  2. Dutch activists close in on Ceta referendum
  3. Erdogan: I don't care if you call me dictator
  4. Ex-commissioner De Gucht: Juncker has no spine
  5. Brexit calendar unchanged, May says
  6. MEPs' Dieselgate invitation to French minister still 'pending'
  7. EU 'gravely concerned' by political arrests in Turkey
  8. MEP Brok: US campaign style is a danger for democracy
Birth of the Juncker commission

Reasons for delay abounded: not enough women, an east-west row over the next foreign affairs chief and a Slovenian minidrama. Still, the Juncker commission took office as planned, on 1 November.

The spitzenkandidaten coup

The year 2014 shall go down as the date the European Parliament snatched away the right to nominate a European Commission president from national governments.

LuxLeaks: An opportunity?

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was buffeted by the LuxLeaks revelations just days after he came to office. Yet the longterm effect may be beneficial.

Over the blue horizon

A killing in the Jewish Museum in Brussels and an infant girl in the sea near Crete: fragments of two Middle East conflicts which just got worse.

2015: It's the economy, still

After a year of suspended action, the EU needs to show some results in 2015. But changing political landscapes in member states could prove a distraction.

Analysis

Breaking up is hard to do

For a frenzied 72 hours of campaigning, the future of the United Kingdom was under threat. The 300 year old settlement binding together Scotland and England in danger of being torn up.

Democracy protests make headway

Pro-democracy protests made some headway in central and eastern Europe, with flawed laws repelled and an underdog candidate winning the Romanian presidential elections.

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