Future of Europe
The Impact of the Arab Awakening on Muslim Radicalization in Europe: A Preliminary Assessment (ARI)
While it is premature to draw conclusions, there are reasons to believe that the events of the Arab Awakening are not triggering a wave of radicalisation among European Muslims but might actually decrease it.
The Role of the General Affairs Council Revisited in Light of the Experience of 18 Months with the Lisbon Treaty (ARI)
The General Affairs Council (GAC) has so far not lived up to the expectations created by the Treaty of Lisbon, which in principle assigned it an important position within the EU system.
The Need for an Open System to Evaluate European Union CSDP Missions (ARI)
The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty and the launch of the European External Action Service are an opportunity to introduce reporting and assessment mechanisms to render CSDP (Common Security and Defence Policy) missions more democratically legitimate and accountable.
Germany, the Schengen Crisis and Frontex: A Funny Kind of Pro-Europeanism (ARI)
Is Germany’s new position on Schengen a sign of the ‘normalisation’ of its European policy?
Interim Balance Sheet of the Hungarian Council Presidency (ARI)
Interim Balance Sheet of the Hungarian Council Presidency (ARI)
EU-Turkey Accession Negotiations: the State of Play and the Role of the New Turkish Foreign Policy
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.
Rebuilding the Eurozone: Germany’s Role (ARI)
The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is revamping its regulatory and operating framework in the wake of the crises affecting various member states. The initiative led by the German government is important, and hotly debated.
The Euro War that Won’t Happen (ARI)
The pressure being exerted on the Eurozone by the markets is driving the European integration process.
Review of the Belgian Rotating Presidency: From Political to Administrative Leadership (ARI)
Despite its domestic political problems and the major challenges facing the EU, in the second half of 2010 Belgium managed the Council’s rotating Presidency effectively and pragmatically.
The UN Secretary General’s Report on his Mission of Good Offices in Cyprus: A Window for Reunification Settlement ‘Closing’ (ARI)
The UN’s patience with Cyprus, divided since 1974, is beginning to run out. The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have made little progress over reunification in the last two years of negotiations. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, warns that a ‘critical window of opportunity is rapidly closing’ and the negotiations run the risk of ‘foundering fatally’.
The EU and Climate Change in the lead up to Cancún: Impacts, Policies and Positions (ARI)
This paper analyses the main consequences of climate change for the EU, the mitigation and adaptation policies it has undertaken and the negotiating stance it will adopt in the international climate-change negotiations.
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