Hi Carlo, Could you give a short introduction about yourself? Hello Caroline, I am a Co-founder and Executive Partner of European Hub, a consulting company on innovation and investment with headquarters in Pavia (near Milan, Italy) and an operational office in Brussels. Could you explain more about the European Hub and what your activities are? […]
With more than 16% of the world population in 2017, Africa accounts only for 5% of the world’s global primary energy use. Moreover, in most African countries 70 to 80% of used energy is generated from traditional biomass (wood fuel). Africa has abundant energy resources (fossil and renewable energy). However, the main issue remains energy […]
“Africa’s problems are EU’s problems”. This is how President Tajani opened the High level conference towards a renewed partnership with Africa on November the 22nd, in Brussels. The aim of this high-level conference was to keep on raising the visibility and the intrinsic importance of the existing partnership between the EU and the African continent, […]
A call for proposal has been recently published by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. The AMIF aims at supporting actions to contribute to the efficient management of migration flows and the implementation, strengthening and development of a common Union approach to asylum and immigration. The present Call for Proposals aims at funding projects in […]
The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) announced on 17 November 2017 two Joint General Comments providing authoritative and extensive guidance in the protection the rights of child migrants. The UN Comments are based on consultations with UN agencies, states, civil society organisations and national human rights institutions from across the globe. The Joint […]
The integration processes within the security and defence areas, in modern sense date back to the post World War II period, and compounds the international organisations, institutions, (in)formal consultative forums and other international bodies, established in line with the United Nations Charter, under the guaranteed right to individual and collective defence. Since the Charter entered […]
Since the very beginning of the European integration process, as an early political experiment among European countries during the 50’s, Defence has always played a major role in the agenda of EU debates. France was the first country which wanted to lead the implementation of an actual european dimension for defence. This was the country […]
Towards more security for the EU and its citizens: this is the aim of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), as proclaimed by the European Externa Action Service (EEAS). A milestone in reaching a closer cooperation in security and defense, has been marked on 13 November 2017 by the ministers from 23 Member States with the […]
The European Union will soon start the drafting process for the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the 7-year programme setting down the long-term financial planning of the Union’s spending. Not only does the MFF reflect the priorities and objectives to achieve for the Union in the coming years, but also the way EU institutions are planning […]
Most of the literature considers the structure of the European Union as a really originl one. Throught the years several definitions have been given to it: governance, multilevel governance, something not clear between a federation an international organization. At the moment all these definitions seem to lose some of their ground considering that the national […]
