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The Standstill Clause as a Travesty: The ECJ’s fresh (yet ‘familiar’) approach to the EU-Turkey Association

June 16, 2016

Current EU-Turkish relations are all but tranquil. Controversial issues like the ‘refugee deal’, the visa waiver roadmap and the promise of revitalized accession negotiations continue to be front page news. Not surprisingly, they eclipse developments in the EU-Turkey Association, the institutionalized international regime established as long ago as 1963 that is intended to foster cooperation… » read more

Posted by ACELG

blogactiv, Case law, Europe's East

Why Turkey should not become an EU member and why Britain should remain one

May 30, 2016

Common values are the very foundation of the European Union. They play a decisive role for the inner cohesion and solidarity among the citizens of the Union. They unite them. That’s why they are laid down right at the beginning of the Treaty in Article 2. They include respect for human dignity, freedom, tolerance, democracy,… » read more

Posted by The future of the European Union

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, UK in Europe

Ukraine’s embarrassing cigarette episode is emblematic of corruption woes

May 26, 2016

Back in December, former USAID project officer Josh Cohen described the scale of corruption in Ukraine so breathtaking that “a Nigerian prince would be embarrassed.” Since then, the Nigerians actually were embarrassed, this time by British Prime Minister David Cameron’s who quipped that the country was “fantastically corrupt” prior to the May 12 Anti-Corruption Summit… » read more

Posted by The Euro Economy

blogactiv, EurActiv.com

Bunga Berlusconi

May 24, 2016

I have met Silvio Berlusconi twice. Well, met, every time there were so many bodyguards around him that it is better to say that I have seen him twice. Except for that second time, no, no sensation, it was not during one of those infamous bunga bunga-parties. The great Berlusconi. Although great was a big… » read more

Posted by Wytze Russchen's 'Oliemannetje'

blogactiv

A EU Sport Integrity Day to restore the image of dirty world of sport

April 18, 2016

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

blogactiv

Ukraine needs European values and Europe’s solidarity

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

blogactiv, Energy, Enlargement, Europe's East, Nuclear energy

The hefty health toll of coal burning in the Western Balkans – and what is not being done about it

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

blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Energy, Energy Community, Enlargement, fossil fuels

Where EU Energy Security and Refugee Crisis Meet

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

blogactiv, Energy, Global Europe

Dual Careers in Sports

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

blogactiv

What the ENP review did not say

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

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Global Europe

Stoltenberg in Belgrade, Biden in Zagreb: The U.S.-NATO diplomatic offensive in the Balkans

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

blogactiv, Geopolitics

Silent majority of EU countries fume against Commission’s Turkey handling

December 9, 2015

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

blogactiv, Enlargement & Neighbours