‘Innovating Europe’ in troubled times: a first assessment of Spain’s EU Presidency in 2010 (ARI)
After a very rough six months, Spain completes the first rotating Presidency of the EU to be held under the Lisbon Treaty.
Influence and image of Spain
The Priorities of Spain’s EU Presidency in the Mediterranean: Ideal and Reality (ARI)
Spain’s EU Presidency poses major challenges for the country’s interests and strategic clout in the Mediterranean, in the new regional geopolitical context that has emerged in the wake of the creation of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM).
The Spanish Presidency and CSDP: Time to Get Serious about the Union’s Military Planning and Conduct Capability (ARI)
This ARI provides an overview of the EU’s capability for the planning, command and control of CSDP military operations and offers some practical recommendations.
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?
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.
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