Politics

Parties, interest groups and movements battle to set the political agenda in the EU, but how should the EU’s political structure look in the future? We examine political power struggles in the Commission, the EU Parliament and in the European Court of Justice.

Politics
Analysis
08 June - 2016
Denmark and the EU: support for a sober and pragmatic membership
Denmark and the EU: support for a sober and pragmatic membership
Denmark has increasingly supported membership in the EU’s European market against the background of critical voters.
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Politics
Analysis
16 December - 2015
What EU diplomats really think about 'stubborn' Britain
What EU diplomats really think about 'stubborn' Britain

The overwhelming sense I received from the diplomats I spoke to was that Britain has isolated itself in...

The UK is now so isolated in Europe that other countries don't want to be seen as our ally, according to top officials...
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Politics
Analysis
16 December - 2015
Danish prime minister and Jean Claude-Juncker
Reflections on the Danish referendum
Reflections on the Danish referendum

The ’no’ faction won because the Danes believe that national sovereignty and European cooperation is a...

In using two languages, the campaigners on Denmark’s referendum spoke past one another, failed to understand each other and...
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Politics
Analysis
15 July - 2015
Evolving Patterns of Euroscepticism in the Danish Political Landscape
Evolving Patterns of Euroscepticism in the Danish Political Landscape
The most significant result of the Danish elections on June 18th was not the change of government from centre-left to centre...
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Politics
Video
30 June - 2015
TEF15: Michael Emerson and Jens-Peter Bonde discuss the Brexit question
TEF15: Michael Emerson and Jens-Peter Bonde discuss the Brexit question
Video from this year's ThinkEuropa Festival. Author and former ambassador Michael Emerson analyses Great Britain's future in...
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Politics
Brief
23 November - 2014
Danes are more ambivalent towards the internal market says new survey from the Think Tank EUROPA
Danes are more ambivalent towards the internal market
Danes are more ambivalent towards the internal market
Freedom of movement for labour is a founding principle of the EU. The EU defines the single market by the four freedoms of...
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Politics
Commentary
10 November - 2014
The parliament has to get into the EU game
The parliament has to get into the EU game

The important task for the new European Commission will be to get the national parliaments back as team...

The important task for the new European Commission will be to get the national parliaments back as team players.
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Politics
Memo
07 November - 2014
Danes are generally lukewarm towards the EU – its benefits must be more obvious if that trend is to change
Danes are generally lukewarm towards the EU
Over the last year, the Danes have become lukewarm and hesitant about the European Union. More Danes doubt whether the EU is...
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Politics
Memo
06 November - 2014
New poll: Majority of the electorate would say goodbye to opt-out on legal matters
New poll: Majority of the electorate would say goodbye to opt-out on legal matters
New poll: Majority of the electorate would say goodbye to opt-out on legal matters
An increasing majority of the electorate wants to abolish the opt-out on legal matters or replace it with an opt-in...
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Politics
Commentary
15 October - 2014
Four reasons why commissioners do not make it through the European Parliament
Four reasons why commissioners do not make it through the European Parliament

Last week the European Parliament finalised the first hearings of the nominated commissioners....

Last week the European Parliament finalised the first hearings of the nominated commissioners. Historically, this does not...
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Politics
Memo
26 September - 2014
Juncker's restructuring of the European Commission
Juncker's restructuring of the European Commission
Last week, the President-elect of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, announced his new team of Commissioners. But...
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Politics
Memo
22 September - 2014
Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz were leading candidates in 2014
Danes unfamiliar with the leading candidates
Danes unfamiliar with the leading candidates
The introduction of leading candidates to the post as European Commission President was a new phenomenon for the European...
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Politics
Brief
19 September - 2014
Scottish referendum
Scottish referendum good for Europe
Scottish referendum good for Europe
More nationalism and new nation states are not the answer to Europe’s major challenges. That is why Scotland’s vote against...
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Politics
Memo
15 September - 2014
Skotland could become the 29th EU country
Skotland could become the 29th EU country
Skotland could become the 29th EU country
What will happen if the Scots vote ‘yes’ to forming their own self-governing nation, separate from the United Kingdom, when...
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Politics
Memo
09 September - 2014
Banking union demands political leadership
Banking union demands political leadership
Banking union demands political leadership
At first glance, the Danish public seems critical about Denmark being part of a banking union. 53 percent are against, 26...
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Politics
Memo
26 August - 2014
Den moderne kommissær Connie Hedegaard
Profile of the modern commissioner
Profile of the modern commissioner
The Danish government will soon reveal who it will send to Brussels as Denmark’s new EU Commissioner for the next five years...
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Politics
Update
11 August - 2014
Large majority wants Danish participation in EU Police cooperation
Large majority wants Danish participation in EU Police cooperation
81 percent of the Danish population thinks that Denmark should continue to be part of EU cooperation, carried out through...
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Politics
Notat
11 August - 2014
Danes want to replace opt-out with an ‘opt-in’
Danes want to replace opt-out with an ‘opt-in’
Danes want to replace opt-out with an ‘opt-in’
81 percent of the population believes that Denmark should continue to be a part of the EU’s cooperation to fight organised...
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Politics
Brief
27 June - 2014
Europol-exit skader kampen mod organiseret kriminalitet
Europol exit harms fight against organized crime
Europol exit harms fight against organized crime
Organised criminals have a turnover of 4.800 billion DKK worldwide each year and Europe is one of the places with the...
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Politics
Update
26 June - 2014
9 CLEAR BENCHMARKS FOR GROWTH IN EUROPE
9 CLEAR BENCHMARKS FOR GROWTH IN EUROPE
In recent months, the media has been full of speculation over who will occupy the EU’s top posts, but it is also high time...
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Politics
Memo
13 June - 2014
Dansk politi og retsforbehold. Billede fra www.politi.dk
Denmark’s opt-out within the EU is obsolete
Denmark’s opt-out within the EU is obsolete
The Danish government should hold a referendum on the Danish opt-out within the EU as early as autumn 2014. It is likely...
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Politics
Brief
26 May - 2014
EU sceptics did not win the election
EU sceptics did not win the election
EU sceptics did not win the election
The European Parliamentary elections in May were not entirely a landslide victory for the EU sceptics, despite them in a...
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Politics
Blog
12 May - 2014
Anniversary theme 2014: The EU should be strengthened, not weakened
Anniversary theme 2014: The EU should be strengthened, not weakened

Facing a new wave of authoritarianism and geopolitical expansionism in Putin’s Russia, it would be...

History has been galloping ahead over the last 25 years. Who can remember the moving pictures from the fall of the Berlin...
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Politics
Update
08 April - 2014
Tour gathering ‘visions for Europe’ comes to Denmark
Tour gathering ‘visions for Europe’ comes to Denmark
What do the people of Europe really think about the developments in the EU and what are their ideas on fostering future...
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