EU Institutions and Policy

There is (no) room for democracy: 40 years of EU-GCC relations

Established in 1981, the GCC and EU signed a Cooperation Agreement in 1988. The next step was to be a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), but negotiations soon stalled due disagreement over a human rights clause and collapsed in 2008 when the GCC withdrew.

Monday 17 May 2021

A Month After the Fidesz-EPP Split, What Comes Next?: The Domestic Perspective

The question now centers on how the EPP departure will intersect with this broader domestic context, if at all.

Saturday 24 April 2021

Conference on the Future of Europe has launched its online platform: Here’s how to use it

Guy Verhofstadt calls it the “core, the engine, the flywheel of the whole Conference”. The EU Commissioner Dubravka Šuica says that “this is the launch of the Conference”.

Monday 19 April 2021

Can the Czech Health Minister Have His Cake and Eat It Too?

A week ago, the Czech Republic names its fourth Health Minister in seven months, amidst the lowest COVID-19 case numbers so far this year.

Wednesday 14 April 2021

Is Tweeting “Andrzej Duda is a moron” a Crime?: The Troubling Potential for Abuse in Poland’s Defamation Laws

From intellectuals like Czesław Miłosz to labor organizers like Lech Wałęsa to surrealist artists like “Major” Waldemar Fydrych and the Orange Alternative, impactful dissidents have shaped recent Polish history. Yet that proud dissident tradition has increasingly come under threat, as the ruling (…)

Saturday 27 March 2021

Fifteen Years On: An Interview with “Free Belarus” Campaign Founder Åsa Gunvén

“We started this campaign so that people would be aware of what’s going on in Belarus, not just every few years when there is an election but every year.”

Wednesday 24 March 2021

The EU Needs to Commit to a Russia Strategy

Too little too late is not good enough

Friday 26 February 2021

Borrell in Moscow

Hopefully, the next time Borrell or a successor travel to Moscow, EU members will allow the representative to pack the proper ice skates, ensuring that the block will not be left doing unconvincing Biellmann spins while the Russians shoot a puck into an empty net.

Friday 19 February 2021

Yellow, Orange, and Red

European border closures, in addition to combatting the pandemic spread, constitute a valuable tool in international relations’ greater schemes.

Thursday 18 February 2021

EU Vaccine Passports

Who is for? Who is against? Who is already creating them? And how do they work?

Friday 12 February 2021

Conference on the future of Europe – Launch of a new Europe or just another disappointment ?

This was the title of the high-level online debate organized on January 14th 2021 by the JEF student group at the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin.

Friday 5 February 2021

Looking Outside Lipa

Certainly, BiH can and must do better, but for the EU to not reflect on its own role in seeding the ground of this crisis is misguided.

Saturday 23 January 2021
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