Bart Eeckhout

Aug 14, 2024 | eurotopics.net | Bart Eeckhout

De Morgen also urges caution: “So now we have reached the point where the EU Commission is pre-emptively threatening a media platform with censorship. In other words, in a bid to protect democracy we are actually chipping away at its foundations. Europe is on a very slippery slope here. Fortunately, the Commission itself has also recognised this and has now called Breton off.

Jun 20, 2024 | eurotopics.net | Francesco Giavazzi |Bart Eeckhout

The government in Rome can't pretend that it didn't see this coming, Corriere della Sera protests: “The coming weeks will see discussions with Europe about how public spending should develop over the next seven years, the period for which the new fiscal rules apply. ...

Jan 23, 2024 | eurotopics.net | Maria Laura Rodotà |Bart Eeckhout |Emilian Isaila |Birgit Baumann

Rejection of right-wing extremism is uniting people who would only tear each other apart in Italy, commments La Stampa in approval of the protests: “Before, during and after the demonstrations, German politicians and opinion-makers did not - we repeat, did not - call for investigations into people's origin, for statements of abjuration, or for exclusion. They did not engage in public squabbling.

Jun 20, 2023 | eurotopics.net | Bart Eeckhout |Ernst Sittinger |Franka Welz

Europe must close its borders completely, the Kleine Zeitung demands: “Europe bears responsibility, there can be no question of that. Wherever possible, we must create and pay for humane conditions in reception centres. But in order to avoid deaths, there is no alternative to the strict separation of immigration and asylum. And to make this separation work, we must not open our borders but rigorously seal them off. ...

Jun 20, 2023 | eurotopics.net | Bart Eeckhout |Ernst Sittinger |Franka Welz

Europe must close its borders completely, the Kleine Zeitung demands: “Europe bears responsibility, there can be no question of that. Wherever possible, we must create and pay for humane conditions in reception centres. But in order to avoid deaths, there is no alternative to the strict separation of immigration and asylum. And to make this separation work, we must not open our borders but rigorously seal them off. ...