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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
August 27, 2015
A summit on the Western Balkans will take place on Thursday (27 August) in Vienna, amid enlargement fatigue, and fear of the migrant wave submerging the region from the outside, but also stemming from the region, overwhelming wealthier EU countries.
Posted by Heard in Europe
On one level, the televised standoff between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage in the lead-up to the 2014 European election was excellent – it provided a rare space for the reasoned exchange of arguments about Britain’s EU membership. On another level, however, it was largely unhelpful. Any viewer with the slightest grasp of the issues… » read more
Posted by Thought Fox on Europe
June 12, 2015
Is it really eleven years ago that Cyprus became a member of the EU, during the largest-ever round of enlargement? I have a fairly vivid recollection of 2004, a turning point in Cyprus political history. The referendum rejection of the UN reunification (Annan) plan by the Greek Cypriots had as result the complete isolation of… » read more
Posted by Stavros Papagianneas
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blogactiv, Communications, EU Citizens & Media, EU Priorities 2020, EurActiv.com, Future EU, Innovation & Enterprise, International relations, Media Freedom |
June 2, 2015
Because fellow journalists recognize the peril in which many of their Turkish colleagues now find themselves, Sunday’s election in Turkey is getting the full attention of the European media. It is indeed a game-changer of an election, not for the faint-hearted. Its outcome will determine the apotheosis of Recep Tayyip Erdogan or his ruin. And… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
May 26, 2015
David Cameron’s campaign to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union has not got off to a good start. He admitted that his first foray with fellow EU leaders, on the margins of the Eastern neighbourhood summit at Riga last week, was not met with ‘a wall of love’ (whatever that may… » read more
Posted by Andrew Duff - On Governing Europe
Montenegrin ruling coalition is made of Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and a smaller Social-Democratic Party (SDP). DPS has been ruling the country for the last 25 years, while SDP joined them in 1997, at the moment when DPS started steering away from their partnership with Milosevic. Both parties are associate members of Party of… » read more
Posted by Montenegro and European Union
May 13, 2015
The weekend [9.-10. May 2015] violence in Macedonia (FYROM) [later in short only Macedonia] has sent a wave of anxiety across the Balkans raising concerns about presumed ethnic-Albanian unrest in the volatile region. Eight police officers were killed and 37 were injured in the gun battles, which began at dawn Saturday [9th May 2015], and… » read more
Posted by AriRusila's Conflicts
