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Merkel-Hollande at European Parliament

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8 October, 2015

European Parliament press release date 7 October and entitled: François Hollande and Angela Merkel face the MEPs. The current situation in the European Union and challenges to be tackled together, and notably migration, were at the heart of Wednesday afternoon’s debate between European Parliament political group leaders, President of the French Republic François Hollande and Chancellor…

State of the European Union: The Pope gets it

Katoikos
Politics , Analysis
26 November, 2014

It’s been 26 years since the European Parliament had a papal visit. Pope Francis addressed the Parliament at Strasbourg, and his speech was far from a diplomatic eulogy of the European Union. It was a direct attack on the European elites and their bureaucracy, which cannot seem to find the way to address the problems of unemployment, recession and migration that plague the continent.