European Business Review

Edition: International | Greek

FOLLOW EBR MAGAZINE ON:

Candidate countries can and should be involved in Europe’s ongoing rearmament and force-modernization drive. These three NATO members have committed to scale up core defense spending from around 2 percent to 3.5 percent of their GDP, a target they could reach by the mid-2030s. They have signed security partnerships with the EU, paving the way for participation in union-wide schemes such as the European defense industry program.

How to Join the EU in Three Easy Steps

Montenegro and Albania are frontrunners for EU enlargement in the Western Balkans, but they can’t just sit back and wait. To meet their 2030 accession ambitions, they must make a strong positive case.

On the other hand, flexible work must not be associated with job insecurity, and the existence of mechanisms that ensure a decent guaranteed income and protect labor rights regardless of the type of employment lay the groundwork for secure conditions of resistance and integration in the face of the impending automation of labor.

A new social contract in the age of social intelligence

When Rousseau spoke of the “Social Contract,” he was referring to labor, stating that it constitutes “a fundamental factor in the integration of individuals into society as well as a dynamic parameter for the redistribution of wealth.”

The case for a more muscular posture in Lebanon is self-evident. This would neither be a mandate against Israel nor against the Shia Lebanese. It would be a mandate in favor of international law, and in support of an imperfect and flawed democracy that, in the region, most embodies European values of plurality, liberty, and freedom of speech.

France, Italy, and Spain Should Use Force in Lebanon

Europe has been standing by while its Southern neighborhood is being redrawn by force. To establish a path to peace between Israel and Lebanon, it’s time for Europeans to get involved with hard power.

The reforms strategy stems from hard-hitting analyses by two former Italian prime ministers, Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi, of the EU Single Market’s fragmented nature 35 years after its ‘completion’ in 1992. Both have repeatedly voiced concerns that progress is far too slow.

The oh-so-slow Draghi/Letta plan to ’save Europe’

Giles Merritt looks back at the fate of earlier Single Market initiatives, and complains of déjà vu and lessons unlearned.

Ursula von der Leyen seems to think that she should set foreign policy. But that task falls under the responsibility of EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. The Commission President also often ignores Council President Antonio Costa and contact directly council members, the heads of the EU member states.

In foreign affairs, the EU is on the sidelines

The European Union is increasingly on the sidelines. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU seemed to regain its role. It reacted quickly and unanimously with heavy sanctions against Russia.