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.
Future of Europe
EU scenarios for 2027
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.
If the UK stays
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 Immortal Regiment: the pride and prejudice of Russia
The March of the Immortal Regiment has been celebrated each year since 2012 in hundreds of Russian cities and many others beyond Russia.
The Europeanisation of the anti-Europeans
The anti-Europeans are Europeanising in order to thwart Europe. They operate at a pan-European level to make gains at a national level.
Partnering for democracy: protecting the democratic order in post-Brexit Europe
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.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: the Euro-Atlantic consolidation of the Baltic region
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 should not be betting against Trump
Europe, despite the insults meted out to it by Donald Trump, must devise its own strategy come what may because the US has changed
Voting at 16 in Austria: a possible model for the EU?
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 is not Scotland, despite appearances
Catalonia and Scotland share grievances that led them to hold referendums on independence, but this does not mean they can be bracketed together.
The challenges of the IOM in a migration tricky era
The Portuguese António Vitorino will head the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the next five years from 1 October.
EU: external centrifugal forces and European ‘clusters’
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.