Last week, the European Commission presented a proposal to reform the Dublin Regulation, namely the regulation that decides who is the Member State responsible for examining the request for international protection of an asylum seeker. The aim of this reform would be, in the words of the Commission, to review the current Common European Asylum […]
“Deal. Unanimous support for new settlement for #UKinEU”, announced an exultant Donald Tusk in his long-awaited tweet, and picked up ovations for probably the most cited announcement made on that day in the world media. Soon after, all British newspapers and TV stations started a bidding quest of predicting the ultimate outcome of the revealed […]
The free movement of workers in the EU is one of the most contentious part of the news deal aimed at keeping Great Britain in the European Union. The Council of the EU President, Donald Tusk, negotiated with British Premier, David Cameron, a Draft Decision concerning a new settlement for the United Kingdom within the EU. […]
On Wednesday the European Parliament, convened in Strasbourg, will debate on the British forthcoming in-out referendum. The President of the EC, Jean-Claude Juncker, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bert Koenders, on the behalf of Dutch Presidency of the EU, will participate in the talks. Last week, Cameron was in Brussels to meet with […]
Dear readers, welcome back! 2016 has begun and it is expected to be a very intense year of complex foreign policy challenges, especially for Europe. The European Union will face 2016 in the spirit of negotiations to avoid the Brexit. After a campaign based on the pledge to hold an in-out referendum by 2017 to stay […]
