31 Jan. 2012 : SOLIDARITY AND AUSTERITY: THE 2012 STATE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
-Annual Brussels Think Tank Dialogue - Programme - registration.

6 Feb. 2012: European economic governance: Current status and future prospects
-Conference.

European Voice, 12 Jan.: Fighting a losing battle? Book review of "Europe, strategy and armed force" (S.Biscop and J.Coelmont) by Toby Vogel.

Economist blog, 16 Dec.: Thinktankers wail at EU woes. Moans galore.

Villa VPRO, 30 Nov.: H.Hoebeke over Congo na 50 jaar democratie pas bij derde verkiezingen.

Bruxelles2.eu, 24 Nov.: La stratégie de sécurité de l'UE : bonne à la poubelle ? N.Gros-Verheyde on the Security Policy Brief of S.Biscop.

CCTV2, 24 Oct. 2011:
Franco-German conflicts lead to further delay in the introduction of the European debt programme. Interview with Stijn Verhelst.

LeTemps.ch, 4 Oct.:
A quand la naissance d’une défense européenne?
Review of the book of Sven Biscop and Jo Coelmont.

NewEurope online, 1 Oct.:
S.Biscop on: EU-US criticised for ‘tepid’ response.

Announcement

EGMONT is recruiting a Project Manager for its Africa Programme, starting on 1 March 2012. More info, click here.

Publications

Egmont Papers

n°53, Dec. 2011:

TEPSA-EGMONT, a view on the reform of the EU courts: The Reform of the EU Courts. The need of a management approach, Franklin Dehousse, with the collaboration of Mathilde Rouland., Dec. 2011.

n°52: Setting a Standard for stakeholdership. Industry Contribution to a strengthened Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, Jean Pascal Zanders (Ed.), Dec. 2011.

n°51: Financing the answer to climate change: challenging but feasible, Clémentine d'Oultremont, Oct. 2011.

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Studia Diplomatica

Vol. LXIV, n°4:

The European Union and Economic governance, M.Lepoivre, J.Keller-Noëllet, S.Verhelst (guest eds.). About econ. governance: concept, normative & incentive governance, enforcement, solidarity, EU and global econ. governance.

View the table of contents and introduction.

Vol. LXIV, n°3: Geopolitics and geostrategy in the Asia-Pacific region: Europe as actor or spectator? View the table of contents and introduction.

Vol. LXIV, n°2: articles on: EU's approach to security; EU - Nato - Lisbon Treaty; operational challenges in Afghanistan; EU-Ukraine; Human rights in China.

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Briefs & Commentaries

How EU fiscal norms will become a safety net for the failure of national Golden Rules, Stijn Verhelst, European Policy Brief 6, Jan. 2012.

The CAP post-2013: more equitable, green and market oriented?, Clémentine d'Oultremont, European Policy Brief 5, Dec. 2011.

Belgian Defence Policy: The Fight Goes On, Sven Biscop, Security Policy Brief 32, Dec. 2011.

Afghanistan’s Future: Foreign and Local Solutions for a Fought-Over Country, Alain Hanssen, Security Policy Brief 31, Dec. 2011.

African dynamics at the climate change negotiations, Jean-Christophe Hoste and Andrew Anderson, Africa Policy Brief 3, Nov. 2011.

Other Publications

Egmont Paper 45 (The Treachery of Strategies) was translated in Russian and published by the International Organisations Research Journal, 2011, Issue 4, 92-117.

CSDP: The Strategic Perspective. Sven Biscop and Per M. Norheim-Martinsen contributed a chapter to a major new academic publication on CSDP, Explaining the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Theory in action (Palgrave), Xymena Kuroswka & Fabian Breuer (Ed.), 2012.

High politics in the 'Grand Area' - Can Europeans have global impact in a multipolar age?, Thomas Renard and James Rogers, Strategic Snapshot 3, Group on Grand Strategy, Dec. 2011.

Recent Past events

5 Dec. 2011: The Return of Great Powers in Africa: Opportunity or Curse?
-Book presentation with Tanguy Struye de Swielande, professor at UCL-Mons, coordinator of the Chair InBev Baillet- Latour, « European Union -China » and Senior Associate Fellow at Egmont Institute.
29 Nov. 2011: Towards the Bonn conference: Afghanistan at a crossroad?
-Conference - Programme.
25 Nov. 2011: The CAP post-2013: more equitable, green and market-oriented?
-Seminar.
23 Nov. 2011: Pre-Election in Kenya: a national and regional perspective
-Africa Briefing (restricted).

Other news

On 25 Jan. Sven Biscop gave a guest lecture on the Common Security and Defence Policy of the EU in the UK’s Advanced Command & Staff Course at the Joint Services Command & Staff College in Shrivenham.
On 18 Jan. 2012 Thomas Renard gave a training on "internal-external security challenges" to a group of officers from the European Commission.
On 12 Dec. Sven Biscop spoke at a conference on the consequences of the Libyan crisis and the financial crisis for European defence, organized by Eurodéfense-France and IRSEM at the Ecole militaire in Paris.
On 8 Dec. Sven Biscop was invited by NATO’s Allied Command Transformation to participate in a seminar on “Smart Defence” in Washington DC, preparing the Alliance’s Chicago Summit.

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'Observatoire de l'Afrique' is a network of independent experts and institutes coordinated by the Africa Programme of EGMONT.

EGMONT is member of Europe-Africa Policy Research Network (EARN). It is a network of African and European Policy Research Institutes, aiming to contribute to the EU-Africa Policy Dialogue.

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