The refugee crisis is certainly not only a Greek problem, although direct consequences affect it as the host country. The host country has to apply policies in order to settle and provide with all the necessary the refugees from the first moment of their arrival. But does Greece have to act for the whole of Europe alone?
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Far from providing a solution to UK’s frustrations in terms of immigration, payments to the EU and red tape, a withdrawal from the EU would wipe out the exceptional benefits which the UK already enjoys under EU membership.
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The French parliament has recently voted in favor of the third extension of the nationwide state of emergency which now lasts until the end of July. The decision from May 19, 2016, has been justified as being the only way to safely carry out the major sports events taking place in France this summer: the Euro 2016 and the Tour de France. While the safety of those involved in these events has top priority, it is questionable whether the introduced measures are proportional.
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The Stability and Growth Pact was designed to ensure sound budgetary balances and low public debts in the European Union, ultimately achieving fiscal policy coordination. 18 years after its inception, overburdened by an opaque and intricate web of flexibility clauses, the Pact is de facto dead. Could this be the opportunity to rethink European fiscal governance?
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As pro-Brexit voters push for Britain to leave the EU, their arguments fail to take into consideration the paradox that their leaving might cause: the UK’s move from prominent policy maker within Brussels, to being at the whim of decisions made in the EU without their input. The UK march for autonomy would in fact be undermined by the geography and trade links that would likely ensure a sustained close relationship between the UK and the EU, governed by the very EU energy policy that the ‘out’ campaign are trying to escape.
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Leave or stay? The history of the Eurosceptic movement in Britain is easily exploitable for the Leave campaign. In contrast, the Prime Minister who struggles to assuage fears of an “Ever Closer Union” suffers from his past strategy aimed at an appeasement of the Eurosceptics within his own party.
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