The European Defence Agency in the Wake of the Treaty of Lisbon (ARI)
The EU Treaty approved in Lisbon incorporates the European Defence Agency among the European institutions aimed at supporting the new Common Security and Defence Policy.
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Controlling Migration in Greece: Policies, Problems and Opportunities (ARI)
The main irregular migration route from Asia to Europe passes through Turkey into Greece, which also receives irregular migrants from former Communist countries.
The Moral Grounds for the EU’s Obligation to End the Occupation of Northern Cyprus (ARI)
Turkey's occupation of 37% of Cyprus is a protracted legal and political anomaly that the EU is morally obliged to address immediately.
Gordon Brown and Hard-Headed Internationalism (ARI)
Gordon Brown is about to complete his first semester as British Prime Minister and it is now possible to assess some of the changes which he has made to foreign policy. This new vision, which combines multilateralism with interventionism, he describes as 'hard headed internationalism'.
Europol and the European Criminal Intelligence Model: A Non-state Response to Organised Crime (ARI)
European governments are making a serious, long-term investment in cross-border law enforcement co-operation against organised crime.
The Tactics and Strategic Goals of Russia’s Stand on the Independence of Kosovo (ARI)
This ARI reviews the evolution of Russia’s stance on Kosovo from the disintegration of the former Republic of Yugoslavia to the NATO bombing of Serbia and the implications of a Kosovar independent State according to the Ahtisaari Plan.
Towards a new European treaty: How to Recover the Essence of the Constitutional Treaty, Without Really Seeming to (ARI)
Germany’s EU presidency ended with a precise mandate to negotiate a new treaty in line with the classical method of reform for constitutional treaties.
Is There a Divide Between Europe’s Elites and its Citizens? (ARI)
This work aims to analyse the opinions of Spanish Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) regarding Spain’s membership of the EU, and to compare them to the attitudes of the citizens themselves concerning the integration process.
Kosovo: From Russia with Love…(ARI)
Kosovo is the last remaining piece in the jigsaw of the former Yugoslavia that remains to be settled. However, Western plans to move Kosovo along a smooth transition to independence via the United Nations have been sunk by Russia’s refusal to accede to this. On 20 July, Western countries, in the face of Russian opposition, finally abandoned attempts to pass a resolution on Kosovo in the Security Council.
The parabolic method for the allotment of seats in the European Parliament among Member States of the European Union (ARI)
This analysis proposes a method for the objective and fair distribution of the seats in the European Parliament among all European Union Member States.
Sarkozy’s Defence Policy: An Early Look (ARI)
The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as the new French President and the potential changes in the French security and defence policy.
Poland and Voting in the Council (ARI)
The Polish government has made public its desire to renegotiate the voting system in the Council. The main reason is that the voting system envisaged in the Constitution implies a huge loss of voting power with respect to Germany and a break-up of the accession package which brought Poland to the EU.