European Union

On Wednesday, Jean-Claude Juncker's European Commission released a "White Paper On the Future Of Europe" which comes at a time of extensive tensions with the departing UK, and which lays out what Juncker believe are the "main challenges and opportunities for Europe in
the coming decade." It presents five scenarios for how the Union could

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The rifts within the EU continue to widen as Poland and Hungary join together in opposition to the EU bureaucracy.

Soon after Poland’s ultra-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party came to power in October 2015, the Polish parliament passed a law allowing the government to appoint the judges of its choosing to the highest court and not recognize those chosen by its predecessor, the liberal Civic Platform party.

The leaders of the lower chambers of parliament of Germany, Italy, France, and Luxembourg have called for a European “Federal Union” in an open letter published in Italian newspaper La Stampa on Sunday.

Lawmakers in the EU say they are planning on creating a nuclear European Superstate in the wake of Brexit and Donald Trump’s election victory. Leaders of the lower chambers of parliament of Germany, Italy, France, and Luxembourg published a letter demanding a “Federal Union” be implemented immediately. In the letter, published by Italian newspaper La Stampa on Sunday, EU leaders say that closer cooperation is essential for dealing with problems such as terrorism, immigration, and climate change – problems that they say no one single EU state can handle on their own.