The Yearbook of European Integration published by the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin documents and balances the European integration process from 1980 to the present. The result of 32 years of continuous work is a uniquely comprehensive account …
EU election observation and the April 2013 Paraguayan elections: context and prospects
Our current issue draws attention to the reality of differentiated integration in the area of freedom, security and justice. Further, it discusses the successful coordination of the Danish EU Presidency in turbulent times. Another article deals with the evolvement and development of the EEAS and the organisation of the European foreign and development aid. Other topics include the subnational administrations as guarantors of legitimacy in the EU. A review focuses on the Treaty of Lisbon and the ‘new‘ EU. The AEI reports on three conferences about European sport politics, about the role of social media and about renewable energy.
The end of the Cold War heralded an unprecedented wave of cooperative security ‑based regional cooperation schemes in Northern Europe. The promise of the 1990s in post-Wall Europe but perhaps in particular in the North was an era free of …
In a joint communication by the High Representative (HR) and the Commission in May 2011 the EU announced its readiness to “enhance EU involvement in solving protracted conflicts”.1 The EU expressed its willingness to become involved in “formats where it …
The purpose of this paper is not to argue that EU-Russian relations are in a state of crisis. A workable and apparently sustainable model of economic interaction has no doubt emerged as a basis of this relationship. In 2011, the …
After several years of gradual rapprochement and pragmatic engagement, EU-Belarus relations hit rock-bottom after rigged presidential election in December 2010 and the subsequent violent crackdown of opposition protests by the Belarusian regime. The ensuing ‘cold war’ between the West and …
Security, ‘hard’ and soft’, has always been an underlying feature in the development of the Baltic Sea region (BSR). This applies to the Cold War period, in which the region has been divided between the Western and the Eastern blocks …