After the winter break, people usually come back to work full of New Year’s resolutions and expectations. We don’t know what the 2015 has in store for our readers but we do know what the EU has in store for 2015. This is in fact the objective of the Annual Growth Survey (AGS), a Communication […]
Resettlement is one of the most important international protection tools currently used to provide durable solutions for refugees, who have looked for protection in regions where their fundamental rights are (still) at risk. In practice, it consists in transferring a refugees from the State where he sought asylum to another State, which has previously agreed […]
While European consumers are enjoying the new trend of low oil prices, several opinion makers are resuming Richard Auty’s theory of the resource curse for the Russian case. The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty, claims that countries who base their economy on the abundance of natural resources such as oil and […]
At the end of 2014 the European Commission adopted the Work Programme for the upcoming year representing the new Commission’s political commitment for the realization of the priorities set by President Juncker’s political guidelines. In discontinuity with the previous programmes, the Commission adopted 23 new initiatives and proposed to withdraw or amend 80 of the […]
First of all we would like to give you our best wishes for a wonderful 2015. A year that is supposed to be full of important events, both for Europe and the world. But also a year that brings with it fundamental questions. Will the end of the Italian Semester of Presidency imply a new […]
In July 2014, one of the main novelty resulting from the adoption of the updated 2014-2015 Horizon 2020 Work Programme has been the introduction of a new instrument: the Innovation Prizes. The Prizes, also known as Inducement prizes, will financially award five research innovative projects, able to reach a specific goal of crucial societal interest […]
The EU-Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative, also known as “Karthoum Process”, was launched on 28 November in Rome to seek for the implementation of concrete actions to prevent and tackle trafficking and smuggling of migrants between the Horn of Africa and Europe. The initiative was launched by ministers of the 28 EU countries together […]
While observers wait for the upcoming discussions in the last European Council of the year, the EU consolidates its presence in its frozen Eastern neighbourhood, as this month was opened by the announcement of the launch of its Mission in Ukraine. Named “EU Advisory Mission for Civilian Security Sector Reform in Ukraine” (or EUAM Ukraine), […]
The South Stream project, whose costs were estimated to be about 40 billion dollars, was expected to pass through Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia, avoiding Ukraine. It was supposed to connect Russia to Southern Europe with a 3600 km-long pipeline (of which 2400 km across the Black Sea) and an annual 63 billion cubic meters […]
On 2 December, the Employment and Social affairs committee (EMPL) of the European Parliament has held an hearing on the social and employment aspects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the EU and the US. Although important economic opportunities are expected to come from the conclusion of this important trade negotiation, other issues […]
