Rationalising the Irrational? How to Make Sense of Member States’ Responses to the Asylum Crisis
Pontus Odmalm
Mainstream political parties in Europe have largely found it difficult to develop coherent policies to address the asylum cris…
Category: The EU in the World
The EU’s Relations with Kosovo – Achievements, Limits, Challenges
Gëzim Krasniqi
The EU plays a major role in Kosovo’s development, despite the fact that several Member States do not recognise its independenc…
The Crisis of Schengen is the Crisis of the EU
Ester Herlin-Karnell
The Schengen system of borderless travel across much of Europe faces many challenges, from the migration crisis to prev…
EU-Russia Relations: A Eurasian Opportunity?
Francesco Saverio Montesano
The costs and challenges associated with EU-Russia relations at present demonstrate that the EU needs a functio…
The EU’s Relations with Kosovo – Or Why We Should Still Value Brussels Bureaucracy
Lorinc Redei
Kosovo’s recent agreement with the EU is a milestone in its European relations, if not for the contents of the deal itself then for t…
The Refugee Crisis Has Challenged Europe’s Outsourcing of Migration Control
Christina Boswell
The refugee crisis in Europe should not be understood simply as a humanitarian crisis, writes Christina Boswell. Those Syr…
The EU and Vietnam Agree on Trade Deal, But There’s Still a Long Road Ahead
Maria Garcia
The recent announcement of the EU’s agreement in principle with Vietnam marks the latest step towards its first free trade agreem…
A More ‘Global’ EU Foreign Policy for the Future
Chad Damro and Deyan Dimitrov
Following the recent publication of the EU’s Strategic Review on external action, Chad Damro and Deyan Dimitrov…
Market Power Europe: Exploring the EU in the World
Chad Damro
How can we think about the EU’s engagement beyond its borders? Chad Damro explains how his proposal of Market Power Europe, which rec…
TTIP in the Bigger Picture
Chad Damro
The proposed EU-US trade agreement (TTIP) is the product of the dynamics of the global trade regime and the evolution of the transatl…