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TTIP has become the new trade game for the EU institutions. The players seem however to have neglected an important fact. Since the ratification of the Marrakech Agreements in 1994,
Energy-consuming buildings have to disappear from the European building stock. Improving their energy performance is thus pivotal and the EU has been active in this domain
In the middle of a multifaceted crisis, secure identities often seem like easy and comforting responses. This paper takes a different stance: it contests the very common communitarian postulate according to which a […]
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The “De Morgen” Newspaper chose Sven Biscop as defence minister in a hypothetical government of technocrats for Belgium. But Belgian and EU policy needs to become more political, not more […]
Railway policy has been one of the slowest areas of European integration. The first substantial railway directive was only issued in 1991, and the First Railway Package in 2001. There […]
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“What should the EU do?” This is how most, if not all, policymakers in the Belgian foreign ministry react when a crisis occurs in, say, Ukraine or Syria. But as […]