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Recommendations to the Spanish Presidency, November 2009
On the occasion of its Pre-Presidency Conference on 24-25 November 2009 at the Spanish Senate, organized by TEPSA’s Spanish member […]
Read moreReflections on the Schuman Declaration by Jean Paul Jacqué, May 2012
9 May 1950 – 9 May 2010 On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Schuman Declaration Professor Jean […]
Read moreEuropean Parliament’s Briefing on consolidating the EU’s Crisis Management Structures: Civil-Military Coordination and the Future of the EU OHQ, May 2010
The performed move from ESDP to CSDP in the Lisbon Treaty is desirable for an increase of coherence in EU’s […]
Read moreRecommendations to the Belgian Presidency, May 2010
During the Belgian Pre-Presidency conference organised in cooperation with the EGE network on 20-21st May 2010, TEPSA Network presented the […]
Read moreRobert Schuman on Hungary and Europe
by Graham Avery, former Secretary General of TEPSA, visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University […]
Read moreLiber Amicorum Professor Jacqué
We congratulate warmly Professor Jean-Paul Jacqué who received the Liber Amicorum on Monday 14th June, “Chemins d’Europe – mélanges en […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial on “The European External Action Service”, July 2010
By Jean Paul Jacqué With only two months delay from the original schedule, the European External Action Service (EEAS) has […]
Read moreEU-27 Watch No. 9 / EU-27Watch.org released
The latest edition of the EU-27 Watch is available free of charge at www.eu-27Watch.org. In this edition, experts on European […]
Read moreElectronic Collection “SPES Policy Papers“ launched
The electronic collection “SPES Policy Papers“ is dedicated to issues of current and future relevance to European foreign and security […]
Read moreTEPSA Brief: European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) – September 2010
by Laura Ventura The Treaty of the EU introduced a new dimension of participatory democracy for European citizens. With its […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial on “The role of the European Council on the future of the CFSP”, September 2010
By Jean Paul Jacqué Since the beginning of his mandate, the President of the European Council had pointed out that […]
Read moreTEPSA Brief: Obstacles to overcome in EU’s accession to the European Convention of Human Rights – December 2010
by Agathe Fadier The Lisbon Treaty entailed important evolution in the field of Human Rights protection in the EU. In […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial on “Enhanced cooperation”, December 2010
By Jean Paul Jacqué Enhanced cooperation was introduced by the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997 and responded to the request […]
Read moreA series of short essays with fresh thinking on the European Union: What the European Union Did Next
“What the European Union Did Next” addresses the intrinsic quality of European cooperation and it finds reason to be cheerful. […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial on “The state of play of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI): the birth of participatory democracy”, February 2011
By Jean Paul Jacqué Under the Belgian Presidency, the European Parliament and the Council reached agreement in first reading on […]
Read moreTEPSA Brief: EU energy security – the Russia factor and future prospects for the Southern Corridor, May 2011
By Marco Siddi In the wake of both the uprisings that have destabilized Northern Africa and the nuclear disaster in […]
Read moreUI Occasional Paper No 7: The European Security Strategy: Reinvigorate, Revise or Reinvent?
The EU’s European Security Strategy (ESS) offered the first clear expression of the EU’s global security aims. Eight years later, […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial on “The European Union and the constitutional identity of its member states”, June 2011
by Jean Paul Jacqué Debates on the relationship between EU law and national constitutional law have been around since the […]
Read moreTEPSA Brief: The review of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Increasing the coherence and coordination of EU external action?, July 2011
By Simon Stroß, The recent events in the Arab world triggered a call for more democracy in the Southern Neighbourhood […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial on “The current state of EU Affairs”, August 2011
by Jean Paul Jacqué Since this newsletter is published after the summer break, I seize the opportunity to wish you […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial on “Towards a two-speed Europe?”, December 2011
by Jean Paul Jacqué The last summits of the Eurogroup and the European Council of 9-10 December paved the way […]
Read moreTwo final commentaries on the reform of the EU courts
Last year, the Court of Justice has proposed to add twelve new judges (and cabinets) to the General Court, to […]
Read moreTEPSA Brief: Time for a new generation of Trade Agreements?, February 2012
by James Nyomakwa-Obimpeh For the past 9 years, the European Union (EU) has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial on “The Architects in the Kingdom, governance of the euro zone”, February 2012
by Jean Paul Jacqué The Lisbon Treaty has attempted to establish mechanisms for the euro area governance, but the resistance […]
Read moreTEPSA Brief: Options for EU engagement in post-conflict Libya, March 2012
By Marlene Gottwald The EU’s response to the Libyan crisis has been weak and divided. The EU failed to speak […]
Read moreTEPSA Brief: Libya: A wakeup call for CSDP?, March 2012
By Nicole Koenig In the past couple of years, there has been recurrent talk of ‘CSDP fatigue’. In the wake […]
Read moreCall for Application EXACT Network Seminar on Academic Skills – TEPSA Training 2012
The Call for application of the EXACT Network Seminar on Academic Skills -TEPSA Training 2012 is now open. The EXACT […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial on the EU’s accession to the European Convention of Human Rights, ‘Still one more effort, comrades…’, April 2012
by Jean Paul Jacqué The endless saga of the EU’s accession to the European Convention of Human Rights seemed to […]
Read moreCrossfire in the Parliament: The Commission’s hearings
The new year in Brussels begins right away with a series of events, which many people have been waiting for […]
Read moreTEPSA Newsletter Editorial “Descartes revisited:The Reflections on the Method”, April 2011
by Jean Paul Jacqué Since the Treaty of Lisbon has entered into force, one witnesses the revival of the classical […]
Read moreStudy for the European Parliament: “The EU Foreign Policy towards the BRICS and other Emerging powers: objectives and strategies”
Five years after the launch of the ‘BRIC’ acronym, Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2006 started a process of […]
Read moreStudy for the European Parliament: “The Role of Private Security Companies (PSCs) in CSDP Missions and Operations”
While the hiring of Private Security Companies (PSCs) such as Blackwater by the United States (US) has been the most […]
Read moreStudy for the European Parliament: “The EU as a Global Actor : Its Evolving Role in Multilateral Organizations”
This study explores ways through which the EU could meet ifs full potential as a global actor and, specifically how […]
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