The European Council and migration: any progress?
The European Council has come up with a vague agreement, but it has avoided a political crisis and at the same time made more visible the seriousness of the migration challenge to the EU.
The European Council has come up with a vague agreement, but it has avoided a political crisis and at the same time made more visible the seriousness of the migration challenge to the EU.
This paper is written at a very critical time for the EU. However, in these distressed times for the European project, it seems more appropriate than ever to discuss in public what its future will be.
The prospect is again being raised of Brexit not taking place and the UK remaining in the EU. Bu the Remain option is not devoid of problems for the EU.
The March of the Immortal Regiment has been celebrated each year since 2012 in hundreds of Russian cities and many others beyond Russia.
The anti-Europeans are Europeanising in order to thwart Europe. They operate at a pan-European level to make gains at a national level.
The democratic partnership between the EU and the United Kingdom might become the seed of a powerful tool of democracy protection in Europe, thus contributing to the stability of the continent.
The Baltic region has consolidated around the geostrategic cohesion of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and their determined membership in both the EU and NATO.
Europe, despite the insults meted out to it by Donald Trump, must devise its own strategy come what may because the US has changed
Austria has been the only country in the EU that allows voting at the age of 16 at all political levels. Could this be a future model for the EU?
Catalonia and Scotland share grievances that led them to hold referendums on independence, but this does not mean they can be bracketed together.
The Portuguese António Vitorino will head the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the next five years from 1 October.
The EU's problems stem not only from within but also from without. What the governments of non-member countries do has an impact on the range of ‘clusters’ into which the Union is fracturing, divisions that are already more complex than North-South, East-West or lenders-borrowers.