• European Cooperation Projects 2018

    EU funding opportunities

    The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency has recently published some previews on 2018 call for proposals in support of “ European Cooperation Project”  in the framework of Creative Europe. The call for proposals for European Cooperation Projects 2018 is expected to be published in late September 2017, and interesting news are about to come. […]

  • The EU-China Energy dialogue: a win-win game

    Energy

    The EU-China Energy Dialogue took place shows the importance of energy in their bilateral relations. Both China and the EU are highly dependent on imports of fossil energy sources and respectively represent approximately 22 and 12.5 % of global energy consumption. They are faced with many similar challenges in the pursuit of energy security and […]

  • EU-China connectivity agenda

    Employment and Social Affairs

    The possible cooling down of Transatlantic relations, rising from the election of Donald Trump as US president, highlight once more the importance for EU to look toward East. China, in this new vision, is one of the key partner in several fields of cooperation, also as regard the huge Initiative kowkn as “One Belt One […]

  • Welcome back

    Editorial

    After the summer break NEU is back. And our focus for this number is on the EU/China summit. It is our tradition as Europeans to often analyze the world on the basis of categories which are always related to the Western world i.e. Europe and the United States. In the meanwhile, during the last 30 […]

  • Trieste 2017: a milestone in the enlargement to East

    External Relations

    The Conference of Trieste will take place on July the 12th, gathering together Presidents and Prime Ministers from 13 countries. Among those representatives  the EU High Representative Mogherini and the Commissioner Hahn for EU enlargements will also join this important event. This diplomatic meeting is aimed to pave the way for 6 countries from the […]

  • Why Berlin economic package for Western Balkan is a bad idea?

    Economy

    “In considering the requirements for the rehabilitation of Europe the physical loss of life, the visible destruction of cities, factories, mines and railroads was correctly estimated, but it has become obvious during recent months that this visible destruction was probably less serious than the dislocation of the entire fabric of European economy. For the past […]

  • Western Balkans Route: really “closed”?

    Migration

    As a consequence of the record number of migrants arriving in Greece in 2015, the people who entered the EU in Greece tried to make their way via the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia into Hungary and Croatia and then towards western Europe. This led to unprecedented numbers of migrants seeking to re-enter the […]

  • Trieste summit: youth connections to accelerate Western Balkans path to EU

    Employment and Social Affairs

    Western Balkans integration in the EU has recently faced the threat of the “enlargment fatigue”. But 12th of July Trieste Summit, organized by the italian presidency of the Berlin Process, clearly changed this perspective and the sentence pronounced at the beginning of the mandate by European Commission’s President, Jean Claude Juncker, seems now fareaway. “Our […]

  • The Balkans issue: where European energy and politics meet

    Energy

    The energy security problems in the Western Balkans would be for the EU to recognize the key role that the Western Balkans can play. Brussels also needs to recognize that the exceptional legal dysfunctionality in the region directly affects the Union’s energy security as it makes it very difficult for investors to put in place […]

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