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The financial crisis underscored both the importance of financial supervision, as well as its pre-crisis malfunctioning. In response, substantive reforms have been carried out in Europe and elsewhere. This paper […]
A travers cette analyse, nous observons que l’enjeu en Arctique compte plusieurs volets : La géoéconomie (les matières premières), la géopolitique (le contrôle des voies et accès maritimes) et la […]
Col. Johan Andries, Head of the Presidency Task Force of Belgian Defence, takes stock of the Presidency. (Photo credit: EP, Flickr )
On the 27th of October 2010 the Commission finally published its long-awaited Communication “Towards a Single Market Act”2 with the ambitious objective of relaunching the Single Market. It is beyond […]
External publications
Le 6 décembre 2010, l’Institut royal des relations internationales (EGMONT) et le Conseil central de l’économie (CCE) ont organisé un séminaire d’experts intitulé « La crise économique et financière : […]
NATO emerged from its 19-20 November 2010 Lisbon Summit with a new Strategic Concept (SC) that is concise and readable. That is an achievement in its own right, as those […]