Given climate concerns and Europe’s vulnerability to external supply shocks and threats, the ambition of becoming a zero-emission continent is particularly fascinating nowadays. Yet, whether it is science-fiction or coming future is debatable. Can Europe rely exclusively on renewables for its energy consumption? At the moment, the answer is negative: despite the increased weight of […]
Immigration is a social phenomenon of great relevance nowadays. The EU is trying to cope with massive inflow of migrants mainly focusing on the emergency; but emergency is just a short term perspective, while immigration is a long term issue that has to be dealt with a long term strategy. As regard immigration policy it […]
Today with us Mr. Paolo Casalino, Director of the Puglia Office in Brussels. Can you tell us more about the activities of your office here? We mainly do three things. We run an institutional activity of monitoring the EU decision-making process and legislative measures adopted by the Commission and relevant to the Region; we also work […]
Meeting in Vienna on October 30, the delegations of China, Egypt, the EU, France, Germany, Iran – for the first time, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and the United States gathered in Austria to discuss the critical on-going situation in Syria […]
During the last weeks, the BBC has portrayed the story of Azam, a 5-year-old Syrian refugee that a journalist noticed while documenting the current arrivals by land of refugees in Serbia. The child had a fractured jaw and was treated by a nurse under a tent. He said to be in Serbia with his uncle. […]
Just few days after his tour in Strasbourg and Brussels, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came back to Belgium in order to meet again the EU leaders. There were lots of issues on the table, that night, during the last European Council meeting on the 15th of October: obviously migration was the biggest piece […]
After the decision of the Hungarian government to close the border with Croatia, hundreds of migrants, mainly Syrians, are now entering Slovenia to continue their journey toward Austria and Germany. This leads Hungary to reinstate border controls on its frontier with Slovenia, suspending the Schengen system. The reason behind such decision, as reiterated by Hungarian government, was […]
The Promotion of self-employment and entrepreneurship has a strong potential to create jobs: the Europe 2020 strategy recognises entrepreneurship and self-employment as tool for achieving sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe. According to the EU Commission data nearly 26 million people in the European Union are unemployed and actively seeking work. The European Commission support entrepreneurship mainly […]
In order to face energetic, environmental and climate current challenges, a common strategy is the only feasible solution for our countries to play a significant role worldwide. This is the reason why policymakers are increasingly talking about an Energy Union. We should acknowledge that the European electricity sector is already a world leader in sustainability […]
Originally formed in 1991 by three states – Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia (now with successor states Czech Republic and Slovakia), the Visegrad Group aimed to fully provide restitution of independence, democracy and freedom to the region of Central Europe. With around 64 million inhabitants in total, V4 states form the 4th most populated entity within […]
