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PESCO: Good News for NATO from the EU
Good news: the US and, in its wake, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, are getting concerned about the EU’s defence plans. Those should not lead to a duplication of NATO, nor […]
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ASEAN under Singapore’s chairmanship
Singapore formally assumed the role of ASEAN chair from the Philippines on 1 January 2018. Considering the frequent use of the phrase ‘resilience and innovation’, the overarching sentiment suggests that […]
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Semantics matter: Why the European Monetary Fund is a welcome idea, but a bad name
The willingness to complete our Economic and Monetary Union has been given much welcome impetus in recent months. One of the key ideas is to transform the existing European Stability […]
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Why the sequencing of the Brexit negotiations should be abandoned
In June 2017, the EU Council adopted its guidelines for the Brexit negotiation. They were based on a “a phased approach to negotiations”. This means that the negotiators have to […]
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In the Brexit negotiation, the UK will never escape the close connection between judicial and trade cooperation
Politically, the European Court of Justice (ECJ)’s role after 2019 has become one the most controversial items of the Brexit negotiation. Legally, keeping a cooperation between the EU and the […]
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Making public the travel costs of European Commissioners is something important
In the midst of the holidays, the European Commission released the travel costs of the commissioners for the first two months of 2017. Though many will not see this, it […]