Following Ireland’s ‘No’ to the Lisbon Treaty, echoing the French and Dutch voters’ rejection of the Constitutional Treaty in 2005, the EU needs to consider carefully how to win back citizens’ support and thus overcome the fears that are crippling its ability to shape world politics.
...Mr Sarkozy seems serious in his pragmatism. In Paris the other day, at a conference organised by the foreign ministry and the Institute for Security Studies, I heard French official after French official elevate practical politics above Gaullist ideology.
"The contest, as it stands, will be between Tusk and Kaczynski," said Marcin Zaborowski, an expert in trans-Atlantic relations at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris.
This ESDP NEwsletter visits the EUFOR Tchad/RCA Operation, looks at Kosovo's preparations for enhanced EU engagement and explores the issues of climate change and security.
The European Security Strategy (ESS) identifies the promotion of good governance and stability in the EU neighbourhood as its strategic objective. Five years into the adoption of the ESS this seminar examined some other key issues regarding relations with the neighbours.
Daniel Keohane, research fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies here, said the white paper set ambitious goals for Europe, particularly in the light of Ireland's "no" vote in the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. DefenseNews
EU-Sanktionen gegen den Iran wären genau das fehlende Element, das den Anhängern Ahmadinejads noch abgeht, um sich mit ihren anti-westlichen Ansichten voll durchsetzen zu können. Über Iran, Israel und Europas Energiesicherheit.
Le président algérien Abdelaziz Bouteflika est parvenu à tourner la page de la guerre civile à la faveur de la politique de réconciliation nationale et a été à deux reprises plébiscité pour le choix de la paix.
The first seminar in the series addressing 'European Interests and Strategic Options' was held in Rome on 5 and 6 June 2008 in cooperation with the Istituto Affari Internazionali and addressed the Union’s goal to develop ‘an international order based on effective multilateralism’.
The tension between interdependence and power politics will shape the future of the international system. It is in the interest of the European Union to engage established and aspiring global powers in a sustained dialogue on how to confront pressing common challenges.