by Pawel Swidlicki
Exempting the UK from the obligation of working towards an ‘ever closer union’ has been one of the government's key renegotiation objectives. Open Europe's Pawel Swidlicki and Stephen Booth assess whether the relevant…
by Pieter Cleppe
Open Europe’s Pieter Cleppe writes for Dutch daily De Volkskrant that a proposal by Belgian Migration Secretary Theo Francken to make it mandatory for asylum seekers to apply for asylum in ‘hotspots’…
by George Tzogopoulos
When EFSF Chief Klaus Regling visited Beijing in October 2011 to discuss China’s potential investment in European bonds, a new chapter began in Sino-European relations. The new factor driving this relationship was…
by James Rogers
Pro-Europeans in the United Kingdom (UK) have had a miserable time of late. They seem completely unable to articulate a clear, decisive and engaging message to attack their anti-European and Eurosceptic opponents…
by Judy Dempsey
Judy Asks: What Will Be the Big Foreign Policy Story of 2016?
Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy…
by Andreas Takis
2015 is a hallmark year for migration to the EU. It is the year when the impasses of European migration policy manifested themselves in an explosive fashion. The massive influx of Syrian refugees…
by David Held and Kyle McNally
In the short term, Europe can only survive as a way of solving common problems, worth having insofar as the EU stabilises crises and protects the economic wellbeing…
by Vincenzo Scarpetta
Spaniards will head to the polls on Sunday in what is easily the most unpredictable Spanish general election in decades. Open Europe’s Vincenzo Scarpetta previews this unprecedented four-way race, looking at the…
by Nina Schick
The German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maizière is centre-stage in a domestic political storm on the status of Syrian nationals in the on-going refugee crisis. Nina Schick argues that he’s the fall-guy as…
by Marco Trifuoggi
On the first day of the TATRA Summit in Bratislava (SL), the president of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem delivered an important speech on the future of the eurozone, mentioning many of the elements…