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Cleppe: EU Must Reduce Spending After Brexit
January 11, 2018
Pieter Cleppe of the think tank Open Europe writes that European President Jean-Claude Juncker's push to increase the EU budget after the exit of Britain from the bloc will only heighten euroskeptic concerns about the EU's "excessive spending programs" and "burdensome overregulation" and will continue to strike at the reputation of the supranational organization.
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Commentator: EU's Path Forward Is Via National Sovereignty
January 10, 2018
Author and commentator John Lloyd writes that the EU should not lose itself in a post-Brexit "integrationist pipe dream" but rather should strengthen the bloc's national governments as politically accountable actors and "recast the Union as a loose association of friendly states" that offers both cooperation and flexibility.
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Italian Party Backs off Call for Euro Referendum
January 10, 2018
Reuters reports that the head of Italy's 5-Star Movement Luigi Di Maio has rolled back his party's commitment to hold a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone as the group leads opinion polls in the months prior to Italy's March election.
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EU Chief Rejects Talk of Reducing Funding to Poland
January 10, 2018
Politico reports that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has rejected growing calls from officials in Western European countries to withhold development funding from Poland for alleged violations of rule-of-law norms in the country's judicial system, dismissing such proposals as "wild threats."
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Commentator: EU Response to Spain Shows "Double Standard"
January 10, 2018
Economist Andrea Hossó writes that the EU's criticism of threats to democratic values in Poland and Hungary "has acquired a tinge of Alice in Wonderland" when the supranational organization fails to call out Spain for its police violence against Catalonian citizens attempting to vote for independence.
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