The Expanding European Union: How to Evaluate the Policy? What Prospects for Spain’s Presidency? (ARI)
How should we judge the success of the EU’s enlargement policy? What can Spain expect to achieve in this field during its EU Presidency in 2010?
Influence and image of Spain
The Way Forward for the Spanish Economy: More Internationalisation
The collapse of the construction sector brutally exposed the shortcomings of the lopsided economic model. The economy needs to become more internationalised through exports and direct investment abroad in order to create jobs on a more sustainable basis and employment of a higher quality.
Working towards a European immigration policy
The EU has laid the foundation for a comprehensive European integration policy that addresses such issues as positive management of immigration and measures to curb irregular flows of immigrants. However, it is still far from having a true, common European immigration policy, and this is one of the challenges that Spain will face during its EU Presidency starting in 2010.
European Issues from a Spanish Perspective: Contribution to EU-27 Watch nr 8 (ARI)
This paper analyses various European issues –the Irish referendum, transatlantic relations after President Bush, the financial crisis and challenges of global governances, the French EU Presidency and the prospects for ENP and enlargement after ‘Georgia’, among others– from a Spanish perspective.
Spain and Turkey: A Budding Relation (ARI)
In April Turkey joined the small group of countries (France, Portugal, Poland, Italy, Morocco and Germany) with which Spain, an active supporter of Turkey’s bid to join the EU, holds an annual government summit. The scope for enhanced bilateral relations in the trade, investment, political and cultural spheres is considerable.
Spain and the G-20: A Strategic Proposal for Enhancing its Role in Global Governance
This paper explores the role Spain can and should play in the institutions engaged in global governance in the current context of financial crisis and reconfiguration of international power centres. After briefly analysing Spain’s relative position in the world –on the basis of economic and other criteria– the study suggests the path it should follow to boost its influence in the world.
Spain and EU Budgetary Reform
Now a debate is under way at the European level on revising the budget and EU policies. The conference held in Brussels on 12 November of 2008 marked the end of the public-debate phase that began with the European Commission’s presentation of an issues paper in September 2007.
A Tool for the Economic Crisis: A Single European Treasury (ARI)
The economic crisis could open a debate on one of the most passionate and intense issues that Europeans could consider: how to change Europe’s institutional structure to move towards the establishment of a Single Treasury for the euro zone countries.
New Prospects for the Spanish Language in the Philippines (ARI)
The announcement by the Philippine government concerning the reintroduction of Spanish in secondary education offers new prospects. The new situation deserves consideration from the perspective of individual rights.