Month: August 2013

The 2014 European Parliamentary Elections: The Most Important European Elections Yet?

In 2014 citizens have an opportunity to express their views about the EU and evaluate how successful policy makers were in tackling the crisis. It will be the eighth Europe-wide election since the introduction of direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979. The outcome will see a new parliament, responsible in part for governing

Gibraltar stand-off: a storm in a cup of tea

What started as a row between aggrieved local Spanish fishermen and the Gibraltarian government over an artificial reef has escalated into an exchange of strong rhetoric between the Spanish and British governments. The sovereignty over Gibraltar has been a bone of contention in Spanish-British relations for 300 years. The Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which ceded