The government in Prague wants to make the European economy more resilient. The five-party coalition is responding to the Ukraine war and inflation with an ambitious economic policy program in the second half of the year.
By Redaktion Table
The EU grants candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova, while Georgia has to settle for the "European perspective. There was great disappointment at the Balkan summit, where the hoped-for progress failed to materialize.
By Eric Bonse
The director of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Mario Holzner, warns against further stalling the candidate countries in the Western Balkans. The EU must act to push back geopolitical rivals such as China and Russia, he said in an interview with Hans-Peter Siebenhaar. Therefore, the states should be given access to the single market ahead of accession.
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For a long time, Wandel durch Handel ("change through trade") was the unofficial slogan of the European security architecture. The war in Ukraine has ruthlessly revealed that the German government's long and naively negligent adherence to this principle has tended to rather bring about the opposite of peace and democratic progress in Europe. Now is the time to rebuild the European integration landscape on the basis of democracy and the rule of law.
By Redaktion Table
