by Wojciech Jakóbik
After the Ukrainian crisis, many experts had incorrectly predicted that Gazprom would start a gas war with Europe over the last winters. Nevertheless, that did not happen, as the tactic would not have…
by Vincenzo Scarpetta
Claims that TTIP would put the NHS at risk of a sell-off have come to the fore again, after the UK Government has decided to accept a Labour backbench amendment to avoid being…
Vocal Europe
A group from the European Parliament has expressed its solidarity with imprisoned teachers and union leaders in Iran. The chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI) group, Gérard Deprez…
by STEFAN LEHNE
Europe’s refugee crisis initially drove EU member states apart. Confronted in mid-2015 with a mass inflow of asylum seekers that threatened internal political stability, member states returned to the logic of narrow national…
by Judy Dempsey
Dmitry Medvedev sure knows how to press the right buttons. Here was the Russian prime minister making his first appearance at the 2016 Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of top policymakers…
by Marco Giuli
On 16 February 2016, the European Commission presented its energy security package, the first major delivery of the Energy Union agenda. The package includes legislative texts (the revised Regulation on Security of Supply…
by Fabian Zuleeg
Given the potential impact on the EU, the UK‘s in/out referendum and the associated reform agenda should be high up the Brussels agenda. But, curiously, so far there has been little obvious activity…
by Silvia Brugger
The European Commission recently released its vision for the global climate change agreement, which is due to be adopted in Paris in December. It is worth noting that the EU is the first…
by Marco Giuli
In July 2015 the European Commission, together with the High Representative (HRVP), presented the EU Energy Diplomacy Action Plan. This will be an integral part of the EU’s efforts to build…
by Matthias Bauer
The rise of populist parties across Europe is a severe threat to European integration. Irrespective of their underlying political ideologies, populist parties mainly benefit from widespread EU scepticism among their national constituencies. At…