The British Presidency inherited a sour mood after the campaign on the European Constitutional Treaty. There had been every hope that public opinion in the UK towards Europe would have changed after the acceptance of the Constitution. Prime Minister Tony Blair had presented the Constitution as an opportunity, not a threat. Everything went pear-shaped when…
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Europe Economy Latest News: Sussex in Europe with Tolna Megye
Agriculture and countryside issues Tolna is an agricultural county and the visitors were interested in using Eurolinks (which organises farmer exchanges in several countries) to arrange exchanges between farmers at Sussex in Europe. As a wine-producing county there was a lot of common interest in the viticulture department of Plumpton College. Trevor Passmore, Deputy County Chairman for…
News from central and eastern Europe – 3
Poland (Polska) Findings by Polish investigators at odds with Russian report on Smolensk crash New results of the black box inquiry by experts from the southern city of Krakow were presented by Poland’s military prosecution on 16 January. Andrzej Seremet, Poland’s prosecutor general, and Krzysztof Parulski, chief military prosecutor, presented the findings, which appeared to contradict…
European Movement (Sussex branch) recent activities
Diégo Colas was born in Paris, grew up in France and then in the USA (New York). he studied and took a BA at Georgetown University (Washington), then a diploma at Sciences-Po Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies) and the École Nationale d’Administration. He has been a member of the French foreign service since 1999, in…