The EU’s Eastern Partnership is a new regional initiative for its eastern European neighbours and this review looks at it in relation to the existing Enlargement and European Neighbourhood policies and in light of their future development.
This ARI analyses the criticisms and the solutions to Europe’s economic governance that have been raised during recent years, and offers a brief reflection on the slight advances that were introduced in the Lisbon Treaty (2007), that still need to be ratified. It ends some reflections on the lessons that we could learn from the current financial crisis, and makes some proposals on the way forward.
This ARI looks at the recent developments in Italian immigration policies carried out in 2008 by the conservative government of Silvio Berlusconi.
This paper analyses various European issues –the Irish referendum, the French EU Presidency, the EU's Mediterranean relations, the Pact on immigration an asylum and the future of the Euro, among others– from a Spanish perspective.
After decades of ongoing intercommunal disputes between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, and for the first time since 2004 when a peace process brokered by the UN failed, the leaders of the two communities on the island have re-launched negotiations for a federal solution.
The aim of the seventh edition survey is to give a full comparative picture of debates on European issues in the member states of the EU and two candidates (Croatia and Turkey). This project is coordinated by Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) and Institutes from all 27 EU member states –including the Elcano Royal Institute- as well as Croatia and Turkey.
Only a quarter of foreigners from the most developed countries in the EU who live in Spain are pensioners. The rest belong to the active population, and their educational and occupational levels are higher than those of the Spanish population, and considerably higher than those of the rest of the immigrant population.
This paper analyses NATO’s current nuclear position, the arguments for and against withdrawal, and the need for a calm process of behind-the-doors consultations on this issue, with an open mind and with no taboos. Otherwise, NATO could generate a new controversy between Member States and put at risk the credibility of its nuclear deterrence.
The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in the Czech Republic continues to be surrounded by uncertainty.
At the Brussels European Council of 14 December 2007, the EU Member States decided to convoke a ‘reflection group’ on the future of the EU. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the future of Europe to be generated by this European Council initiative.
The President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, presented a new and far-reaching White Paper on Security and Defence on 17 July 2008.
After the ‘No’ vote in the referendum held in Ireland on 12 June, and in view of the unanimity requirement for treaty ratification among member countries, the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty faces a setback. A new period of uncertainty has commenced in the process of European integration.
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