Eurosphere agenda: “‘Luxleaks’ whistleblowers convicted

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‘Luxleaks’ whistleblowers convicted

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Two whistleblowers in “Luxleaks” tax scandal get suspended jail terms as journalist on trial is acquitted

Brexit’s long shadow falls on French presidential campaign

 EurActiv.com by Cécile Barbière

The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU has catapulted the question of EU membership to the forefront of France’s 2017 presidential election campaign, with the right and extreme right leading calls for a referendum. EurActiv France reports.

Roma evictions: Europe’s silent scandal

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Michael Georg Link and Nils Muižnieks

Despite ECHR rulings in their favour, Roma families are still being evicted en masse from their homes, often without any compensation.

Roma women cry as riot police arrive to assist in the eviction of more than 100 people from their homes in Bucharest, Romania, Sept 15, 2014.

 

Brexit, as seen from the Southern Cone

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Alicia Castro

The dis-United Kingdom, now lacking a veto in the EU, is alone and isolated in its failure to respect the 41 UN resolutions demanding a resumption of negotiations with Argentina. Español

Dignitaries watch the remembrance service to mark the 25th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict in London. Alessia Pierdomenico / PA Archive/Press Association Images. All rights reserved

 

Tough call for Slovakia’s EU presidency?

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

As Slovakia prepares to assume the rotating presidency of the EU on 1 July, the Slovak media looks at the challenges the country faces in tackling the fallout from Brexit.

The Brexit Bodge: What they said

Ideas on Europe by Jon Danzig

 

Brexit politics in 8 minutes or less

 Julien Frisch

Three journalists from the La Libre (Belgium), the Irish Times (Ireland) and Politico Europe (EU/Brussels) discuss what’s happening behind the scenes of EU institutions.

Nosemonkey’s prophecies: the Brexit vote, UK media, and the EU debate a decade later

Julien Frisch

This blog would have had a hard time starting off in 2008 withoutNosemonkey’s “EU blog directory“. Thanks to this list, I discovered what was, back then, basically the whole (relevant) EU social media sphere. But more than making me discover the EU blogosphere, Nosemonkey made me discover the UK’s distorted reality field that has contributed to the Brexit vote last week.

Journal 6.26.2016 Brexit to ISIS

Global Guerrillas by John Robb

Some items to think about:

• Brexit is a true black swan.  Nobody in the mainstream, including the Leave camp, saw it coming.  Even now, based on the analysis being written, few people understand why it won.  Why did it win?  The cosmopolitan, financialized elites saw their incomes grow with globalization, but the deals they struck to “earn” those gains required throwing the bottom 60-70% of the country under the economic bus.  In fact, nearly all of the fast rise out of poverty seen globally was achieved by economically damaging the working populations of the developed world (particularly in the US and the UK).  That lopsided deal is a bomb of anger that has been growing for years.  A bomb that is now going off in the US and the UK.  Strangely, nobody in the establishment is willing to do what is necessary to defuse this bomb.  This means it will get much worse before it gets better.

Gibraltar and Scotland discuss staying in EU

 EurActiv.com

The leaders of Gibraltar and Scotland discussed remaining within the European Union on Tuesday after a British vote to leave the bloc, a statement said.

Why Brexit Is Tearing British Politics Apart

Slate Articles by Gabriel Roth

Why are we here?

Fear wins in Spain’s elections

open Democracy News Analysis – by Lluis de Nadal

If Podemos members and leaders draw the right conclusions from Sunday’s elections, then this defeat will only make them stronger.

Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias. Paimages/Francisco Seco. All rights reserved.As Spain prepared for its second general election in six months, all eyes were set on Podemos. Polls suggested that the anti-austerity party led by Pablo Iglesias would surge past the Socialist Party (PSOE), and even come close to beating the ruling centre-right Popular Party (PP). “Victory is at our fingertips,” Podemos’ leaders repeatedly proclaimed.

 

Juncker vs. Farage: The final battle

 EurActiv.com by Laura Fernández Álvarez

“I’m surprised that you are here. You were fighting for the exit. The British people voted for the exit. Why are you here?” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday in Strasbourg.

Brexit aftershocks hit Spain

open Democracy News Analysis – by Francesc Badia i Dalmases

Did Brexit have anything to do with the disappoiting results for Podemos in Sunday’s Spanish elections?

Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias. Paimages/Francisco Seco. All rights

Brexit sad but no tragedy, say Baltic countries

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Major social media players in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are generally saddened by the British vote to leave the European Union, but do not treat it as a crisis.

Debate: Johnson doesn’t want to succeed Cameron

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Boris Johnson will not run for the office of British prime minister. He does not feel able to unite the country, the most prominent Brexit advocate and former conservative mayor of London said on Thursday. Was Johnson the victim of intrigues in the Tory party?

Brexit: Tensions emerge over UK-EU trade negotiations

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

UK and EU politicians send conflicting signals about how the UK’s Brexit negotiations should proceed.

Austrian far right gets election defeat annulled

EurActiv.com by Samuel White

Austria’s presidential run-off election must be held again, the country’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday (1 July), handing the Freedom Party’s narrowly defeated candidate another chance to become the first far-right head of state in the European Union.

Brexit: the view from Eurasia

open Democracy News Analysis – by Thomas Rowley, Natalia Antonova, Mikhail Kaluzhsky and Maxim Edwards

Whether you’re in Mariupol or Margate, politics has become an organic part of the tabloid press. Our media should change to tackle this.

27 June: Vladimir Putin addresses the audience at the United Russia party congress. (c) Ivan Sekretarev / AP / Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Over the weekend, Brexit revealed (or created, depending on your opinion) another crack in Europe’s fundament. Roughly speaking, the regional working and middle classes pushed back against alienation, of being written out of the conversation. In so doing, they aligned themselves with one strand of elite interests.

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