There has been much euphoria across Europe since Sunday’s elections in Greece. Alexis Tsipras, his boyish face fresh with triumph, hails a new era not just for Greece but the entire European continent no less. Man, this man is on fire. Just look at his rhetoric... “The Greece of the elite has been defeated.” “The …
Month: January 2015
Grexit? Brexit? Don’t bet on it.
As Clint Eastwood, in his eighth decade, celebrates the success of American Sniper some of his earlier films spring to mind – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in particular. The old cliché “who’ll blink first” has never seemed more appropriate when it comes to Greece’s election this week-end as Merkel and Tsipras face …
A herbicide spray to keep the bio-tech industry at bay? RIP traditional European agriculture
By Kathleen Garnett Ever since the first boff in a lab profited from fiddling around with the genetic make-up of plants European agriculture has been at the mercy of the big corporations. Not unlike the pests GMO products are said to repel the bio-tech industry has been swarming all over the treasure chest that is European …
Finding strength in Europe’s Core Values
After two successful years of posting articles setting out a European, as opposed to national, perspective this site has decided to update its look. Not only can readers now see more posts on one page viewers will also notice that EU Perspectives has given the site a completely new pictorial identity. Much as EU Perspectives …
