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Category: European Integration & Institutional Affairs
“Looking Through the Fog of Brexit: Scenarios and Implications for the European Defence Industry”, Paola Sartori et. al. (IAI, Italy)
By looking “through the fog” of Brexit, this analysis highlights what could be its major implications on the European defence […]
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“The Challenges of European Policies Implementation in Croatia”, Višnja Samardžija (IRMO, Croatia)
This book edited by Višnja Samardžija is result of the three-year ERESMUS+ Jean Monnet Support to Institution project “POLO-Cro28 Policy […]
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“Brexit and European Defence: What to Expect from a “No-Deal” Outcome?”, Paola Sartori (IAI, Italy)
Brexit poses a unique set of challenges to both the UK and the European Union. Its multifaceted implications will affect […]
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“Assessing EU Democracy and Human Rights Policies from the Perspective of Tunisian Bottom-Up Actors”, Asma Nouira and Hamadi Redissi (IAI, Italy)
This report is part of a series of working papers to provide an understanding and assessment of EU democracy and […]
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“Voting at 16 in Austria: a possible model for the EU?”, Paul Schmidt, Johanna Edthofer (Elcano, Spain)
Austria has been the only country in the EU that allows voting at the age of 16 at all political […]
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“The Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals”, Michael Kaeding, Johannes Pollak, Paul Schmidt (Eds.)
This book, which brings together contributions from over 25 scholars from the TEPSA network, sheds light on the political dynamics within […]
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“European Union and Challenges of Cultural Policies: Critical Perspectives” – Special Issue of Croatian International Relations Review – CIRR, Jaka Primorac, Aleksandra Uzelac, Paško Bilić (IRMO, Croatia)
This special issue is the output of the biannual Jean Monnet project ‘EU Competences and National Cultural Policies: Critical Dialogues […]
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“Austria’s EU-presidency: between ambition and reality”, Paul Schmidt, Christoph Breinschmid (ÖGFE)
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“Avoiding conflict? The EU legislative process in times of tension”, Olivier Rozenberg, Stéphanie Novak, Selma Bendjaballah, Renaud Dehousse (SciencesPo – CNRS, France)
The current crisis could lead us to expect an overall increase of conflicts in the EU legislative process and eventually […]
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“Desire as Geopolitics: Reading The Glass Room as Central European Fantasy”, Jakub Eberle (IIR, Prague)
The article focuses on the affective dimension of the tension between the Central European aspiration for a Western identity and […]
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“Spain and the prospect of Brexit”, Salvador Llaudes, Ignacio Molina, Miguel Otero Iglesias, Federico Steinberg (Elcano, Spain)
The decision of the British people to leave the EU has consequences not only for the UK but also for […]
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“Brexit: questions, dangers, opportunities for Europe”, Miklós Somai (IWE, Hungary)
Lecture of the ‘4th international scientific conference – International Conference on European Integration 2018(ICEI 2018)’ Read it here
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“Boosting Defence Cooperation in Europe: An Analysis of Key Military Capabilities”, Alessandro Marrone (et al.) (IAI, Italy)
This study aims at analysing the developments regarding key military capabilities of 31 European countries in four specific areas: Air-to-Air […]
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“The added value of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), and its revision”, Julian Plottka (IEP, Germany)
The study on the European Added Value of the European Citizens’ Initiative written by Julian Plottka, Carmen Gerstenmeyer, Julia Klein […]
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“Macron, Merkel and the new European sovereignties”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
Despite their internal and external problems, Macron and Merkel reiterated at their meeting in Berlin that they will submit a […]
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“Les Députés français et l’Europe. Tristes hémicycles?”, Olivier Rozenberg (SciencesPo-CNRS, France)
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“Coherence and focus on capability priorities: why EDA’s role in CARD, PESCO and EDF matters”, Jorge Domecq (Elcano, Spain)
As part of the 2016 EU Global Strategy implementation, the EU launched a series of new initiatives to boost European […]
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“The European Commission: an enabler for the European Security and Defence Union”, Chantal Lavallée (Elcano, Spain)
The European Commission has been pushing for deeper European cooperation in the security and defence sector for the past two […]
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“Institutional initiatives for a solid and participatory European democracy”, Susana del Río Villar (Elcano, Spain)
There is now an important debate underway on the democratic strengthening of the EU. This debate is focused on the […]
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“Brexit: differentiated disintegration in the European Union”, Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
in: Journal of European Public Policy 25, 2018 The decision of the Cameron government to renegotiate the terms of UK membership […]
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“Study on the European Added Value of the European Citizens’ Initiative” (IEP, Germany)
The study on the European Added Value of the European Citizens’ Initiative written by Julian Plottka, Carmen Gerstenmeyer, Julia Klein […]
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“Brexit: Anything could happen in the next half year”, Brendan Donnelly (The Federal Trust for Education and Research, UK)
In this blog post, the Federal Trust’s Director Brendan Donnelly reviews progress in the Brexit debate and argues that the continuing […]
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“Regional Integration Theory”, Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH, Zürich)
in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press, 2018. Regional integration theory seeks to explain the establishment and development of regional […]
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“L’évolution du processus législatif de l’Union européenne. Conflictualité, consensus et tendances sectorielles”, SciencesPo-CNRS (France)
in: Politique européenne, 2017/4 (N° 58). Cet ouvrage expose et explique en cinq différentes étapes l’évolution du processus législatif de […]
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“European Integration (Theory) in Times of Crisis. A Comparison of the Euro and Schengen Crises”, Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH, Zürich)
in Journal of European Public Policy, 25: 7, 2018, 969-989. The European Union has gone through major crises of its two flagship […]
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“Welfare Democracies and Party Politics : Explaining Electoral Dynamcs in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism”, Manow, Philip, Palier, Bruno, Schwander, Hanna (SciencesPo-CNRS, France)
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. 352 p. Europe’s political landscapes are in turmoil, and new radical parties challenge the established […]
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“Psychographic advertising: the global battle to sway minds”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
The Cambridge Analytica case shows that almost anyone –private companies, governments, non-state organisations– with access to users’ data and a […]
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“The decline of the West”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
One hundred years after the end of th First World War there is again a widespread sense that we are […]
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“Europe strengthens the rule of law”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
Europe –the EU and the Council of Europe– has enhanced the rule of law for both its citizens and member […]
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“Understanding money to save the euro”, Miguel Otero-Iglesias (Elcano, Spain)
The Eurozone has a problem. The debate on how to reform and deepen European monetary union is dominated by those […]
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“The composition of the European Parliament in 2019”, Victoriano Ramírez González, José A. Martínez Aroza, Antonio Palomares Bautista (Elcano, Spain)
Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI) The composition of the European Parliament during the 2019-24 legislature will comply with […]
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“Permanent Structured Cooperation: not a panacea but an important step for consolidating EU security and defence cooperation”, Kyriakos Revelas (CIFE)
CIFE Policy Paper n°67 Read it here
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“New Perspectives – Issue 3/2017” (IIR, Czech Republic)
IIR is delighted to present the issue 03/2017 of New Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal published three times a year in […]
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Yearbook Article “Europäischer Rat”, David Schäfer and Wolfgang Wessels (IEP, Germany)
The European Council met on 22 and 23 March 2018. As the Yearbook authors David Schäfer and Wolfgang Wessels point […]
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“A new government takes office in Berlin: What prospects for Franco-German leadership in the EU?”, Tuomas Iso-Markku & Marco Siddi (FIIA, Finland)
Numerous domestic and EU-level challenges stand in the way of a Franco-German reform agenda for the European Union. However, the […]
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“The “internal security” of the European Union: the case of the Border and Coast Guard”, Reinaldo Saraiva Hermenegildo (IPRI-NOVA, Portugal)
in: PROELIUM – Revista da Academia Militar, VII, N.º 14, January 2018, pp. 147-182. In this article the author analyses the […]
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“Europe knows where it doesn’t want to go”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
Elcano Blog This Sunday, 4 March, the whole of Europe will be awaiting news of two poll results: the verdict […]
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“European Defence and Third Countries after Brexit”, Øyvind Svendsen (NUPI, Norway)
The UK’s departure from the European Union has given energy to the process towards ‘ever closer Union’ in the EU’s […]
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“Services: A Key Element in Upgrading the EU-Turkey Customs Union?”, Anja Palm (IAI, Italy)
In The Global Turkey in Europe (GTE) project established a platform to discuss and analyse the rapid transformation of Turkey […]
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IWE Working Papers: “Four years in the club: from external to internal Europeanization in Croatia”, Fruzsina Sigér (IWE, Hungary)
Croatia joined the European Union on 1 July 2013 after a long and meandrous road. On the one hand, the […]
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Catalonia as a laboratory for European separatism: Understanding the independence process and its meaning in a wider European context, Teemu Tammikko (FIIA, Finland)
Despite heavy domestic and international campaigning, the separatists have not managed to increase their support, but polarization and instability in […]
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The Common Agricultural Policy Crisis of the 1970s/1980s: Accommodating the Logics of Appropriateness and Consequences, Marco Lovec (CIR, Slovenia)
in Journal of European Integration History, 23 (2), pp. 245–262, 2017. The paper revisits the Common Agricultural Policy crisis of the […]
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New wine in old bottles. Explaining the dimensional structure of European party systems, Jan Rovny, Jonathan Polk (CNRS-SciencesPo, France)
in: Party Politics, February 2018, p. 1-13 In Europe, noneconomic political issues are seen as secondary but significant aspects of political competition. There […]
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Brexit: yielding step by step to “sufficient progress…for now”, Salvador Llaudes (Elcano, Spain)
in Experts Comments, 5 February 2018 “Sufficient progress” seems to be an accomplish mission, at least in the three key issues: […]
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“Franco-German cooperation: A compromise between vision and reality?”, Paul Schmidt (ÖGfE, Austria)
The problems with forming a government after the 2017 German federal election have provided an opportunity for French President Emmanuel […]
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Manifesto for the Future of Europe and the Related Discussion Papers published (IEP, Germany)
On 7 and 8 December 2017, this year’s final conference of the project “Alternative Europa!” took place at the German […]
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Issue 4/2017 of “integration” published (IEP, Germany)
In the new issue of integration, Funda Tekin explains the basic principles and concepts of differentiated integration in the Area […]
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European Disunion? Social and Economic Divergence in Europe, and their Political Consequences, Bruno Palier, Allison E. Rovny, Jan Rovny (Sciences Po, France)
LIEPP Working Paper, 2017. The principal component of a European social model was considered to be convergence of social outcomes […]
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Mainstreaming Euroscepticism? An analysis of the effects of the politicisation of Europe in domestic elections on the framing strategies of the centre-right in Britain, France and Germany (Sciences Po, France)
Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po n° n°3/2017 The functional logic that had for so long guided European member states […]
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Cancelling Brexit: Possible theoretically, but difficult politically, Juha Jokela (FIIA)
Political difficulties and heightened economic concerns have increased calls to cancel the UK’s decision to leave the EU. Yet a […]
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Breaking Empires, Making Nations? The First World War and the Reforging of Europe, Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Quincy Cloet and Alex Dowdall eds (CoE, Natolin)
One hundred years on, the First World War is being debated as never before. This applies both to countries where […]
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“Grade inflation? Brexit and Canada + + +”, Blick, Andrew, December 2017 (The Federal Trust, UK)
The Federal Trust’s Senior Research Fellow Dr Andrew Blick argues that the concessions that the UK enjoys as an EU […]
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“Britain: devoid of a project”, Andrés Ortega, December 2017 (Elcano, Spain)
Meetings in the context of Brexit have pointed out something important: Brexit seems to be an empty project. None knows […]
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“Strategic autonomy and European defence”, Félix Arteaga, December 2017 (Elcano, Spain)
Strategic autonomy is an old goal of European defence. In general, the concept refers to the indispensable military capabilities necessary […]
Read more“Brexit: What if Britain changes its mind?”, Andrew Duff (EPC)
Recent excursions by Tony Blair and numerous others from the British establishment have lit up the argument about whether the […]
Read more“On Governing Europe: A Federal Experiment”, Andrew Duff (President of the Spinelli Group), January 2018
Here is the story of the European Union by one of its leading thinkers. Andrew Duff describes how the EU […]
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“EU values: a fragile and outdated foundation for European unity?” – CIFE Policy Paper N°62, Gabriel N. Toggenburg (CIFE)
“What happens if, at some moment in time, for whatever reason, a member State (government) cannot, say, respect minority rights like marriage […]
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“Permanent Structured Cooperation: An Institutional Pathway for European Defence”, Alessandro Marrone (IAI, Italy)
On 13 November, EU member states – with the exception of Denmark, Ireland, Malta, Portugal and the UK – […]
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“Analytical base for the Report on progress in implementation of the Partnership agreement between Republic of Croatia and the European Commission”, Boromisa, A., Butković, H., Čučković, N., Funduk, M., Jurlin, K., Kovačić, M., Puljiz, J., Skazlić, I., Šterc, S., Tišma, S. (IRMO, Croatia)
IRMO researchers have published a project study „ Analytical base for the Report on progress in implementation of the Partnership […]
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“Study on investment needs and obstacles along industrial value chains.”, Andrea Szalavetz, Magdolna Sass et al. (IWE, Hungary)
The European Union currently faces a need to invest in modernising its industry across all value chains in order […]
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“What If the V4 Countries Were Not Members of the European Union?”, András Inotai (IWE, Hungary)
In Aspen Review, Issue 04/2017 This question would not have gotten any attention a few years ago. During the first […]
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“East-Central European feminist activism in the context of uneven development in the EU, and ways to move forward”, Tamás Gerőcs, Emília Barna, Gergely Csányi, Ágnes Gagyi (IWE, Hungary)
In Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, The Future of the European Union, 2017, pp 69-79 In this paper, we analyse points of […]
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“The Yearbook of European Integration 2017” , (IEP, Berlin)
The debates on the future of Europe were given a new impetus in 2017 after a majority of British voters […]
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Could Austria join the Visegrád Group?, Paul Schmidt (Austrian Society for European Politics – ÖGfE)
The leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), Heinz-Christian Strache, has previously proposed that Austria could join the Visegrád […]
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Two to tango: the unchanging complexity of Turkey-EU relations, Ilke Toygür (Elcano Institute)
Another European Council meeting went by, with no substantial changes regarding Turkey-EU relations. Despite the very high degree of criticism […]
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European solidarity for Catalonia, Andrés Ortega (Elcano Institute)
The EU –its institutions and member states– has supported the Spanish government in its dispute with the separatists of Catalonia. […]
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Germany and France: ready to tango?, Ulrich Speck, (Elcano Institute)
After years of crises, of doom and gloom, the mood in European capitals is now becoming more upbeat. Brexit is […]
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Autonomy and managerial reforms in Europe: Let or make public managers manage?, Philippe Bezes and Gilles Jeannot (Sciences Po, France)
in Public Administration. Drawing on a survey of top executives in central governments in 11 European countries (N = 5,190), this study explores […]
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“Possible Future European Union Party-Political Systems”, Martin Westlake (CoE, Bruges)
in Bruges Political Research Papers no.60 The paper passes in review the post-war steps to a parliamentary European Union and a […]
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Issue 3/2017 of integration, September 2017 (IEP, Germany)
In the new issue of integration, Joachim Schild analyses Emmanuel Macron’s European policy approach with a special focus on the […]
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Building a hidden investment state? The European Investment Bank, national development banks and European economic governance, Matthias Thiemann, Daniel Mertens (Sciences Po, France)
in Journal of European Public Policy, October 2017 The European Commission’s Investment Plan for Europe and the enduring economic crisis has brought […]
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Governo collaborativo e catene relazionali di innovazione. Spunti a partire dal caso di Milano, Tommaso Vitale, Emanuele Polizzi (Sciences Po, France)
in Quaderni di Rassegna Sindacale, September 2017, vol 18, n° 2 This paper deals with the issue of social innovation at […]
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The Interdependence of Intra- and Inter-Subjectivity in Constructivist Institutionalism, Colin Hay (Sciences Po, France)
In Critical Review, September 2017, vol 29, n° 2 Oscar Larsson’s sympathetic critique of constructivist institutionalism calls for a clarification of […]
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A stronger Europe in an illiberal World?, Sebastian Franzkowiak (CIFE)
in CIFE Policy Paper n°61 Read it here
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Lift the Tollgates: Europe needs greater cross-border military mobility, Leo Michel (FIIA, Finland)
European militaries, including Finland’s, increasingly train, carry out exercises, and deploy together across the continent under EU, NATO, or national […]
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The Future of EU Defence: A European Space, Data and Cyber Agency?, Jean-Pierre Darnis (IAI, Italy)
Sovereignty has always been a tricky issue for EU Defence policy. When it comes to the use of military forces, […]
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Crisis in Social Democracy, crisis in Europe?, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
Elcano Blog, October 2017 The competition that has characterised European politics for years has been between a centre-left and centre-right. […]
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Euroscepticism in the Baltic States: Uncovering Issues, People and Stereotypes, Kārlis Bukovskis, Aldis Austers eds. (LIIA, Latvia)
The book explores the neglected issue of Euroscepticism in the Baltic societies. The book consists of a collection of articles […]
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La Grèce est-elle le cheval de Troie de la Chine dans l’Union européenne?, George Tzogopoulos (CIFE)
Interview for “Le Monde”, 7 septembre 2017 Available here
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The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Brexit does not mean Brexit, Funda Tekin (CIFE)
in Policy Paper 2015, 13 September 2017 – Jacques Delors Insitute Berlin Available here
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The EU level effects of national elections in the Netherlands and France, Aldis Austers (LIIA, Latvia)
The Netherlands and France, despite their affluence and long-standing democratic traditions, are experiencing a major political shift which manifests in […]
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The Preliminary Legal Opinion from the European Court of Justice, Tamas Lattman (IIR, Czech Republic)
The preliminary legal opinion from the European Court of Justice – maybe it is a green light for the emergency […]
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Associated Union citizenship: Premature end of an idea with great potential?, Oliver Schwarz (IEP, Germany)
Not all good ideas are necessarily leading to good projects. The latest witness therefore is the project of free Interrail […]
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Handbuch zur deutschen Europapolitik, Katrin Böttger/Mathias Jopp (IEP, Germany)
The Institute for European Policy’s Handbook on Germany’s European Policy is now also available in an edition published by the […]
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The Time for European Defence Has Come: Rome Must Step Up to the Task, Nathalie Tocci (IAI, Italy)
When it comes to European defence, more has been achieved over the last year than in the past decade. Some […]
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France, Italy and the Reawakening of Historical Rivalries, Jean Pierre Darnis (IAI, Italy)
The leaders of France, Italy, Spain and Germany met in Paris on 28 August for a summit hosted by President […]
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Engaging the World: The European Union as a subsystem of International Relations, Simon Duke & Sophie Vanhoonacker (EIPA, Maastricht)
in International Relations and the European Union (May 2017), Christopher Hill, Michael Smith and Sophie Vanhoonacker (eds.) International Relations and the European […]
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TEPSA/Egmont Paper No. 96: The Reform of the EU Courts (IV): The Need for a Better Focus on the European Court of Justice’s Core Mission, Franklin Dehouse
The European Court of Justice has regularly been accused of activism. Recently, this debate has become more acute thanks to […]
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Integration 1/2017 (IEP, Germany)
In the new issue of integration, Minister Wolfgang Schäuble presents prospects for the future of the European Union and details […]
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FEUTURE Papers – Turkey’s European Future at a Crossroad: Where do we go from here?, Nathalie Tocci (IAI, Italy)
In the run-up to Turkey’s April 2017 referendum on a constitutional change, which will enshrine an unprecedented concentration of power […]
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New Pact for Europe National Report: Italy, Riccardo Alcaro and Eleonora Poli (IAI, Italy)
This is the fifth in a series of National Reports to be published as part of the new phase of […]
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Thinking out of the Accession Box: The Potential and Limitations of Internal and External Differentiated Integration Between Turkey and the EU, Ebru Turhan (CIFE)
Ebru Turhan, Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Vice-Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Turkish-German University […]
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A Purpose for Further European Unity?, Steve Lee (CIFE)
The author, Steve Lee, analyses in this paper the actual purpose for furthering the unity of the European Union. It is no […]
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The Western Balkans in the European Union: perspectives of a Region in Europe? A Contribution to the Trieste Summit on the Western Balkans, Matteo Bonomi (IAI, Italy and CIFE)
This research paper by Matteo Bonomi derives from the Reflection Forum on the run-up to the Summit of Trieste on the […]
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FEUTURE EU 28 Country Report: Hungary. The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios, Zoltán Egeresi and Tamás Szigetvári (IWE, Hungary)
Zoltán Egeresi is the author of the Hungary report which is part of a series on the future of EU-Turkey relations. “The […]
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Brexit as a trigger for disintegration – background and consequences, Miklós Somai (IWE, Hungary)
This paper is based on a lecture held at Second World Congress of Comparative Economics titled «1917 –2017: Revolution and Evolution […]
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Turkey: The Other in an Oriental Soap Opera, Vit Benes and Kristyna Tamchynova (IIR, Czech Republic)
Vít Beneš and Kristýna Tamchynová are the authors of the Czech country report which is part of a series on […]
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European Politeia 1 2016 (EKEME-EPLO, Greece)
This edition of the journal focuses both on the Statehood of the EU as well as on the impact of […]
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The joint sovereignty proposal for Gibraltar: benefits for all, Martín Ortega Carcelén (Elcano, Spain)
In the wake of the Brexit referendum, Spain submitted a negotiation proposal to the UK on Gibraltar that put joint […]
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