Friday, 23 July 2010 07:58

The economic aspect of the EU’s relations with Eastern Partnership countries and the Maghreb, a brief comparison

Adam Balcer

The Eastern Partnership countries are integrated with the EU to a much smaller extent than the Maghreb. The European Union‟s position in the Eastern Partnership area is similar to the situation in the Machrek countries (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Israel and Lebanon). The implementation of the Eastern Partnership modernisation agenda, which provides for the Eastern European neighbours‟ convergence with the EU, will be impossible without increasing the EU‟s economic engagement in this region.

The article was originally published in: "Russian and the EU Eastern Partnership: a challenge or cooperation platform?" ISBN 978-5-93356-097-5 St.Petersburg, 2010
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 11:48

 EU - Russia: it is not the question of reset

Opinion

Paweł Świeboda

Another EU – Russia summit is approaching in what is seen atmospherically as the best context for years. For a few months now, Russia has projected a different image in its foreign policy and began acting as a responsible international actor, at least in some areas. President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin are on a charm offensive around and beyond Europe, courting less the Venezuelan and Cuban leaders and rubbing shoulders more with the Poles, the Norwegians or the Turks

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Friday, 14 May 2010 07:40

Distant Latin America

Commentary

Paweł Zerka

This year's EU-Latin America summit will not lead to any breakthrough. Its mere taking place will be a success in itself. Europe is still lacking an idea what to do with Latin America.

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Thursday, 06 May 2010 11:16

How can Mario Monti square the circle?

Opinion

Paweł Świeboda and Marek Góra

Mario Monti, who is putting final touches on his report on the future of the Single Market, likes to look at the issue through the prism of the new package deal which he considers necessary in Europe. In his view, if a relaunch of the EU’s most successful economic integration project in the last two decades is to happen, those who traditionally favour the deepening of the Single Market should be prepared to make concessions to those who maintain reservations, especially on social and tax policy grounds.

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Monday, 26 April 2010 07:34

The Cypriot Gordian Knot

Policy Paper

Adam Balcer

The victory of Dervish Eroglu, often refereed to as “the hawk”, in the presidential elections of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus puts the island's reunification talks into question and could undermine Turkey's chases of EU accession. The threat of a permanent deadlock could ultimately force a revision of EU policy towards Northern Cyprus and thus contribute to an acceleration of Turkey-EU negotiations. In order for this to take place, the European Parliament should use its new foreign policy powers, acquired under the Lisbon Treaty

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