Afrika 2013: toneel van strijd en interne spanningen
In 2013 zal de aandacht van de internationale gemeenschap voor Afrika vooral uitgaan naar de brandhaarden Somalië en Mali. Maar ook in Centraal-Afrika is het onrustig. De dubieuze rol van […]
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Reforming the system of financing the EU budget
In the framework of the adoption of a new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the period 2014-2020, the European Commission has come forward with an ambitious proposal introducing new “genuine” […]
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Strategic bilateralism or effective multilateralism? The EU, the SCO and SAARC
This chapter looks critically at the complex yet overlooked relationship between the European Union (EU) and two regional organisations from Central and South Asia: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and […]
Macro-economic conditionalities in cohesion policy
European Parliament Note. This note discusses the European Commission’s proposal to introduce wide-scale macro-economic conditionalities in cohesion policy. In essence, this would make cohesion funding dependent on respecting the European […]
Hot issues, cold shoulders, lukewarm partners: EU strategic partnerships and climate change
Few issues have climbed the international political agenda, from low to high politics, as climate change has done over the past two decades. It is now widely recognised at the […]
Partners in crisis: EU strategic partnerships and the global economic downturn
Many people anticipated that economic and political power would shift from the West to the East and the South in the coming decades. Likewise, deepening interdependence has been widely commented […]