Important decisions on Europe’s military capabilities are expected from the December 2013 European Council. But why? What do Europeans actually want to do with their capabilities? The answer to that […]
The debate about European defense tends to focus on the need to spend more and deploy more. One deceptively simple question is usually ignored: why? Americans seem to assume that […]
in MO, 6 May 2013. Toen de rebellengroep M23 eind 2012 Goma en enkele omliggende steden en gemeenten innam, gingen internationaal alle alarmsignalen af. En toen de leider van M23, […]
Both the Commission’s proposal for a ‘Competitiveness and Convergence Instrument’ and the ‘contractual arrangement’ presented by President Van Rompuy share a common concept: associating EU money with national structural reforms […]
Good ideas sometimes spring out of crises. The European Union itself was ‘invented’ from a crisis, conceived in the rubble of the Second World War. It is less frequently recalled […]
Discussion between Thomas Renard and CASS senior researcher Jiang Shixue on the future of the EU-China strategic partnership. See the publication here. (Photo credit: EEAS, Flickr)