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Match fixing is undoubtedly one of the major threat to sport and Europe is currently one of the most affected continents by this problem. That is the reason why the Federation of European players and athletes, EU Athletes, committed itself to tackle the issue in setting up every year, on April 15, a “EU… » read more
Posted by Sport et Citoyenneté
April 12, 2016
Will migrants make or break Europe? While economists highlight the pros of migration, it is undisputable that worries arise among European citizens, as proved by the success of far right parties. From the dangers of Eurabia to the dystopian nightmares of Michel Houellebecq’s Submission of Western values, Europeans seem obsessed by the fear of… » read more
April 5, 2016
It shook me. It shook me seeing thousands of children, women, men, elderly and disabled people endlessly waiting in miserable conditions in the wild campsite Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border. More than 11 thousand people are reluctant to accept the reality that the border is definitively closed. That they will be transferred to the other… » read more
Posted by Tanja Fajon's blog on BlogActiv
Ahead of a referendum in the Netherlands on the association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine, Olexi Pasyuk from the National Ecological Centre of Ukraine discusses the agreement’s importance for Ukraine’s civil society and why Europe must still improve how it engages with the country. by Olexi Pasyuk, cross-posted from the Bankwatch blog. (The… » read more
Posted by Bankwatch
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blogactiv, Energy, Enlargement, Europe's East, Nuclear energy |
March 17, 2016
While the Energy Community yesterday failed to consider more stringent air pollution rules for the Western Balkans, a new report quantifies the health costs of the region’s coal burning both within the region itself as well as in the neighbouring European Union. by Ioana Ciuta, cross-posted from the Bankwatch blog I often hear that countries… » read more
Posted by Bankwatch
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blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Energy, Energy Community, Enlargement, fossil fuels |
Your Vision for EUrope Project and AEGEE Cluj-Napoca are organizing a three-day thematic conference under the title “Borderless Europe: Blessing or Burden?”. The event aims to gather more than 50 participants and it is going to take place from the 6th to the 9th of May 2016 in Cluj-Napoca, the city that won the title… » read more
Posted by Key to Europe
March 4, 2016
Leaders across the continent have made it one of their priorities to move towards greater energy independence for the European Union. But who is the driving force here: The EU or its individual member states? Two interconnected factors which are essential to the issue may help us explore this question: Energy infrastructure and Geopolitics. Infrastructure… » read more
Posted by Global Perspectives - Antonia Colibasanu
February 12, 2016
How to manage the dual career for athletes is a recurrent question. During the past few years it has become a major preoccupation, both at the national and the European level. Various pieces of research have shown how hard it is for top-level sportsmen and sportswomen to combine a sporting career with… » read more
Posted by Sport et Citoyenneté
December 17, 2015
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) review released in mid-November 2015 has defined a new overarching goal for the EU – ‘stabilising the neighbourhood’. Does this shift in objectives signal a new era for the EU’s relations with its neighbours? Will the ‘new’ ENP become more political, more strategic and more impactful after its failure to… » read more
Posted by CERiM
December 15, 2015
The recent visits of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Belgrade and U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden to Zagreb within a week of each other show that both the U.S. and NATO are in the process of trying to augment their influence in the Balkans. For more than a decade, after the overthrow of the regime… » read more
Posted by Kovacevic on Geopolitics
Loudly nobody dares say that. A silent majority of countries are extremely unhappy about the way the Commission has spearheaded the EU Turkey rapprochement. The role of First Vice President Frans Timmermans and of Juncker’s chief of cabinet Martin Selmayr is seen as heavy-handed and creating dangerous precedents. The Commission led by Jean-Claude Juncker took… » read more
Posted by Reuniting Europe
November 16, 2015
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has hired one of the largest Brussels consultancies to lobby for him, so that his name becomes more familiar to the Brussels bubble.
Posted by Heard in Europe
November 4, 2015
AKP’s outright majority is clearly Erdogan’s personal achievement. HDP crossed the Rubicon and CHP secured front opposition. All that as freedom of speech is violated and situation with the implementation of the rule of law is alarming. Turkey’s long-serving ruler reaffirmed he has the way to take what he wants. Both as PM and President,… » read more
Posted by Dimitris Rapidis
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blogactiv, Bridging Europe, Europe's East, Geopolitics, Global Europe |
Guest blog post by Ramazan Guveli, Executive Director of Dialogue Platform. As the European Commission’s progress report on Turkey is due to be announced soon there is no doubt that there will be little ‘progress’ to report on Turkey’s accession to the EU. Rather, it is expected to list a number of areas where it… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
September 3, 2015
After the summer break parents often dread La Rentrée (the first day of school). In parallel there’s also the political Rentrée, which has to do with the social urgencies at EU and global level. The pressure to find answers and solutions to the migration flows have risen with the increasing number of migrants and humanitarian… » read more
Posted by Conny Reuter on Social Justice
