European Union Archives - Political Economy Journal

The deterioration of the United States is Europe’s best opportunity for political independence

18

Mar

Europe, European Union, NATO, Russia, the United States, Ukraine, Ukraine crisis

The deterioration of the United States is Europe’s best opportunity for political independence

BY: William Holmes The hasty, unplanned, and catastrophic withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan has rightly raised concerns among its allies who rely on the US military for security. In fact, in such a situation, countries such as South Korea, Japan or European governments cannot be sure of the correctness of the interim decisions of the United States and the consequences for their strategic and long-term policies. In other words, given the US approach to strengthening its strength in East Asia and the South China Sea, which is aimed at confronting Beijing, its allies, especially Europe, must take responsibility…

Mapping the issues that produced the German federal election result

02

Oct

Angela Merkel, Bundestag, Christian Democrat Party, European Union, federal election, GERMANY, Greens Party, Olaf Scholz, Social Democratic Party, SPD

Mapping the issues that produced the German federal election result

PEJOURNAL - What policy issues determined support for parties during the 2021 German federal election? Davide Angelucci, Lorenzo De Sio, Heiko Giebler and Werner Krause present conclusions from an analysis of the key topics that encouraged vote-switching during the campaign. They find the SPD’s victory was mainly driven by its credibility on economic issues. The 2021 German federal election was a showcase for electoral volatility – not just in terms of the result, but also in relation to changes in the polling during the campaign. But while the strengths and weaknesses of the leading candidates were clearly of great importance,…

18

Aug

BRICS, China, European Union, G7, Pooya Mirzaei, Russia, Trumpists

G7, surrender to self-made crises

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The idea of forming the G7 after the global oil crisis in 1973 convinced the powerful leaders of the world's major industrialized nations in 1975 that they needed closer and more coherent cooperation for the economic-security crisis caused by economic and oil shocks. But the failure of the Group of Seven in recent years, given the growth of tangible and intangible threats and the changing and fluid nature of threats, has led to the questioning of its existential philosophy. In the current context, and given the out-of-control crises, especially transnational ones, and the conventional and…

04

Mar

China, East, European Union, future, Iran, North Korea, Paolo Mauri, Russia, the United States, vision, West

A vision on the future

Interview with Paolo Mauri BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - The dossiers open on Joe Biden's desk are not only those of his newborn administration but also and above all those he inherited from those who preceded him, who is not the only Donald Trump. In fact, there are specific political lines that change little from administration to administration and that reflect the interests of the American establishment and its vision of the world. In the modern era it is the world that is the scene of the action of a Super Power like the United States of America but there…

U.S. Capitol siege a ‘wake-up call’ for democracies

11

Jan

Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Siege, Democracy, European Union, Josep Borrell, U.S.

U.S. Capitol siege a ‘wake-up call’ for democracies

PEJOURNAL - The European Union’s top diplomat said on Sunday that last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol exposed the dangers of allowing the degradation of democratic values to go unchecked and disinformation to spread on social media. “What we saw on Wednesday was only the climax of very worrying developments happening globally in recent years. It must be a wake-up call for all democracy advocates,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a blog post. “Everybody needs to understand that if we accept setbacks after setbacks, even if they seem minor, democracy and its values and institutions can…

14

Nov

crusaders of nowhere, European Union, Islamophobia, right-wing circles, Western Values

The crusaders of nowhere

BY: Flavio Ferraro* Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - In some right-wing circles, what to say if you want identitarian or conservative, in the aftermath of each terrorist attack we witness the usual script, in favour of the crusaders of nowhere: in addition to defining with the word “Islamic” criminal actions that have nothing to do with Islam (such as the recent horrible events in Vienna), thunderous appeals are launched to highlight the incompatibility of the Islamic religion with “our values”. Now, if this happened in the ranks of progressives, no one would be surprised; but that all this happens…

Western Sahara, Morocco clear-cut conflict escalation

14

Nov

Algeria, Conflict, European Union, Frente POLISARIO, Morocco, Sahrawi, United Nations Security Council, Western Sahara

Western Sahara, Morocco clear-cut conflict escalation

BY: Hana Saada PEJOURNAL - In a flagrant and deliberate violation of the Ceasefire agreement signed between the two parties to the conflict in Western Sahara (Frente POLISARIO and Morocco) in 1991, the Moroccan occupation forces opened, on Friday, three new breaches in the Moroccan military wall of shame with a view to attacking the peaceful Sahrawi protesters who are protesting peacefully in Guerguerat. In this aspect, the Moroccan Armed Forces sent military forces through three routes east of the illegal breach in Guerguerat to Sahrawi civilians who were demonstrating peacefully in the areas since October 21 against the illegal…