The Capital Foundation has launched a project to raise awareness about the Cohesion Policy of the European Union. Leading organization in the one-year project is Euractiv, Brussels, funded by the European Commission, the Directorate of Regional and Urban Policy. More than 10 partners – from France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, […]
Author: Mariana Petrova
Cornelius Adebahr: If everybody does as they please, then it is not a union
If German citizens don’t see the situation in Poland and Hungary being put in order, there is a high likelihood of Euroscepticism rising, says German foreign policy expert Cornelius Adebahr. Author: Zuzana Gabrižová, EURACTIV Slovakia Cornelius Adebahr is a political analyst focusing on European foreign policy and entrepreneur based in Berlin, Germany. He is an associate fellow […]
Unfulfilled expectations fuel euroscepticism, shows research
Unfulfilled expectations are the main driving force behind the euroscepticism in both old and new member states of the European Union. What differs is the type of expectations people had – while Westerners expected Easterners to behave according to the true european values (such as solidarity, or zero corruption tolerance), Eastern Europeans expected to become […]