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Bridging the Gap between Ambitions, Expectations and Capability: External Action in the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (2014-20) WP 16/2012 - 6/11/2012 Mario Kölling and Natividad Fernández Sola This Working Paper will analyse the negotiations and the main conflicting issues and present an insight into what might be the likely outcome of the process. It will also consider the suitability of the financial instruments available to bridge the existing gap between the EU’s ambitions, expectations and capabilities in the external sphere.
The New ‘Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union’: Asymmetry or Dis-integration? WP 10/2012 - 19/9/2012 Giuseppe Martinico and Carlo Maria Cantore What will be the impact of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union on the classical constitutional narrative of European integration? Will it be a step back to intergovernmentalism and an evident loss in terms of supranationalism?
Measuring the international presence of countries: the Elcano Institute's IEPG Index methodology revisited WP 9/2012 (Translated from Spanish) - 20/7/2012 Coordinators: Iliana Olivié & Ignacio Molina. Contributors: Ignacio Álvarez, Bruno Ayllón, Rafael Domínguez, Félix Arteaga, Manuel Gracia, Narciso Michavila, Antonio Vargas. The publication of the IEPG’s 2nd edition entails some methodological changes which, nevertheless, alter neither its essence nor principles.
Spain’s Multinationals: the Dynamic Part of an Ailing Economy (WP) WP 17/2011 - 15/9/2011 William Chislett The investments abroad of a significant number of Spanish companies are enabling them to weather the depressed domestic economy relatively well, while exports have become the engine of economic growth.
EU-Turkey Accession Negotiations: the State of Play and the Role of the New Turkish Foreign Policy (WP) WP 8/2011 - 4/4/2011 Mahir Ilgaz and İlke Toygür Turkey’s EU accession negotiations completed their fifth year on 3 October 2010. However, despite annual declarations on the Turkish side that each new year would be ‘the year of the EU’, negotiations seem to be progressing very slowly and the prospects for their timely completion look dim.
The Euro vs Dollar Debate: A Review (WP) WP 5/2001 - 7/2/2011 Miguel Otero-Iglesias This Working Paper provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary literature review on the euro vs dollar debate. In the first part it presents the euro-optimist and the euro-sceptical hypotheses on the euro’s challenge to the dollar within Economic literature and how current data show how the euro has underperformed vis-à-vis euro-optimistic expectations. In the second part, the paper explains the euro’s political flaws.The last part of the paper focuses on these social dimensions.
The Cost for the EU of ‘Losing’ Turkey (WP) WP 2/2011 - 12/1/2011 William Chislett Turkey’s EU accession negotiations, proceeding at a snail’s pace since 2005, run the risk of coming to a complete halt. This would have many costs for Europe.
Destined for Irrelevance? Subsidiarity Control by National Parliaments (WP) WP 36/2010 - 19/11/2010 Tapio Raunio The Lisbon Treaty introduced the ‘early-warning mechanism’, with national legislatures assigned the right to monitor whether initiatives for EU laws comply with the principle of subsidiarity. Does the mechanism really empower national parliaments by giving them a collective veto in EU politics or will it remain largely unused by domestic MPs? This paper leans towards the latter interpretation, arguing that the whole mechanism was mainly introduced in response to legitimacy concerns. It is a rather harmless procedure, with only a marginal impact on the EU’s legislative process.
Cyprus: Time for a Negotiated Partition? (WP) WP 21/2010 - 5/7/2010 William Chislett The Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot leaders have resumed negotiations to reunify Cyprus, which has been divided for more than three decades along ethnic lines. But progress is still very slow and the partition option is gaining credence.
Prospects of regime transformation in Belarus (WP) WP 12/2010 - 8/4/2010 Vytautas Sirijos Gira and Živilė Dambrauskaitė Ever since A. Lukashenka was elected for his first presidential term, and up until the late 1990s, there were claims that his rule was only a temporary and transitional episode in Belarus’s political and economic development. Nevertheless, although the regime is consolidating it is remarkable how it was built and is currently relying on a surprisingly fragile combination of external and domestic factors.
Working towards a European immigration policy (WP) WP 57/2009 (Translated from Spanish) - 16/12/2009 Carmen González Enríquez and Alicia Sorroza The EU has laid the foundation for a comprehensive European integration policy that addresses such issues as positive management of immigration and measures to curb irregular flows of immigrants. However, it is still far from having a true, common European immigration policy, and this is one of the challenges that Spain will face during its EU Presidency starting in 2010.
Prospects for Turkey’s Role in International Politics at the Beginning of the 21st Century (WP) WP 63/2009 - 14/12/2009 Bahri Yilmaz The purpose of this working paper is to discuss Turkey’s new role in international politics at the beginning of the 21st Century and to analyse the main political and economic challenges for the country to become a regional power of medium size.
Cyprus: A Unique Opportunity for Reunification (WP) WP 61/2009 - 25/11/2009 William Chislett Greek and Turkish Cypriots have a unique opportunity to end the 35-year division of Cyprus and reunify the island. But time is running out. The Cyprus problem is likely to come to a head during Spain’s Presidency of the EU in the first half of 2010.
Relations between the EU and Latin America: Abandoning Regionalism in Favour of a New Bilateral Strategy? (WP) WP 36/2009 (Translated from Spanish) - 21/9/2009 Celestino del Arenal Over the past three decades, Latin America has undergone a major process of diversification in its international relations, making it easier for the countries of the region to develop foreign policies that are more autonomous and more focused on the challenges posed by an international society that is increasingly interdependent and global.
Irregular Immigration Policy in the European Community: Action at all Stages of the Irregular Migration Flow (WP) WP 38/2009 - 17/7/2009 Maria Ilies While EU member states have been reluctant to harmonise their policies for managing legal immigration, cooperation for the prevention and control of irregular migration has progressed.
Turkey’s EU Accession Reaches an Impasse (WP) WP 34/2009 - 3/7/2009 William Chislett Turkey’s EU accession negotiations, started in October 2005, are going very slowly for many reasons, including the government’s continued refusal to open its ports and airports to vessels and aircraft from Greek Cypriot-controlled Cyprus (an EU member since 2004). This issue will come up for review at the EU summit during the current Swedish Presidency.
Why a Political Accord is Needed to Make EU-Russia Energy Relations Work (WP) WP 19/2009 - 17/4/2009 Andrei V. Belyi The idea put forward in this paper is that a strong political accord, which would strengthen the relations between the EU and Russia in general, and hence improve relations in all energy sectors, should be pursued by both parties.
Spain and the G-20: A Strategic Proposal for Enhancing its Role in Global Governance 8/4/2009 Elcano Royal Institute This paper explores the role Spain can and should play in the institutions engaged in global governance in the current context of financial crisis and reconfiguration of international power centres. After briefly analysing Spain’s relative position in the world –on the basis of economic and other criteria– the study suggests the path it should follow to boost its influence in the world. The paper points out Spain’s comparative advantages, the areas where it could contribute most, and the shortcomings that make it difficult to translate Spain’s economic weight into greater political influence at the global level.
The Politics of Recognition, Kosovo and International Law (WP) WP 14/2009 - 16/3/2009 Jessica Almqvist This working paper offers an international legal perspective on the diverse and conflicting international reactions in response to Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence on 17 February 2008.
Spain and EU Budgetary Reform (WP) WP 12/2009 (Translated from Spanish) - 11/3/2009 Cristina Serrano and Mario Kölling Now a debate is under way at the European level on revising the budget and EU policies. The conference held in Brussels on 12 November of 2008 marked the end of the public-debate phase that began with the European Commission’s presentation of an issues paper in September 2007. It also marked the beginning of a new phase in which the Commission is expected to present a White Paper in mid-2009, with discussion later among EU leaders.
Enlargement Fatigue in the European Union: From Enlargement to Many Unions (WP) WP 13/2009 - 10/3/2009 Deniz Devrim and Evelina Schulz The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was created in anticipation of the fifth enlargement round in order to provide an answer for the EU in its relations with its new neighbours. Recent EU documents, discourses and events show that due to a certain enlargement fatigue the originally clear separation between EU enlargement and ENP is become vaguer, to the visible disadvantaging of enlargement. In addition, there is trend towards the creation of different regional cooperation forms for the area surrounding the EU.
The European Union Free Trade Agreements: Implications for Developing Countries (WP) WP 8/2009 - 11/2/2009 Enrique Valerdi Rodríguez In a clear break with its former policy, partly due to the stalemate of the Doha Development Round negotiations and to the changes in the global economic balance, the European Union (EU) announced in 2006 its plan to seek comprehensive Free Trade Agreements with a series of countries and regions.
Spain and the Hispanics: A Strategic Project WP63-2004 - 28.12.2004 (Translation from Spanish) Emilio Cassinello This report provides specific suggestions as to how the various Spanish institutions can proceed in their dealings with the diverse, dynamic, growing and ever-changing Hispanic community in the US. The presence of Hispanics is growing at an accelerating pace on the political, cultural, artistic, media and economic scenes of the –for now– sole global superpower. The tightening of ties between Spain and the US Hispanic community can take place at several levels, including the political, the educational-cultural and the economic
Spain and Latin America: global vs. bilateral relations WP58-2004 - 1.12.2004 (Translation from Spanish) Carlos Malamud Traditionally, Spanish foreign policy on Latin America has put global relations before bilateral ones, especially with the most important countries in the region. The philosophy behind this is that we are part of the Ibero-American Community of Nations, a theoretically supranational body made up of fraternal and equal nations. This bias in our diplomacy has affected bilateral relations which, though not inexistent, have not been developed systematically. Preference has been given to good, acceptable relations with Ibero-American nations as a group, rather than stable ties with the main Latin American countries
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