by C4EP | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
Don’t waste a good crisis President Juncker pushes for heavy reforms Wednesday Jean-Claude Juncker, Head of the European Commission, gave his much anticipated “State of the Union” speech. The topics touched varied from immigration to the...
by C4EP | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
Quite in a favor Pan-European electoral list on the wishlist again He is „quite in a favor” of a pan-European list for the European Parliament (EP) elections, said the European Commission’s President in his State of the Union speech. Given that he wanted...
by C4EP | Sep 14, 2017 | Blog
Juncker proposes a one-president and no unanimity system This year’s State of the Union speech from the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has certainly been the most long-anticipated and important speech of his term, as many analysts have noted....
by C4EP | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
The Norwegian Model The Scandinavian country is at the same time a ray of hope and a crushing reality for the UK’s Brexit plans As another round of Brexit negotiations goes by, both sides point at Norway as a model for Westminster to stay out of the EU....
by C4EP | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
How the dual food quality is dividing the EU? Rarely can something in the EU provoke so much controversy than when a Member State feels it has been mistreated. And when there is a case of more than one state, especially several of them, the situation has to be...
by C4EP | Jul 28, 2017 | Blog
Exceptional circumstance – but for whom? Old reflexes work again in Europe’s migration crisis management While Italian authorities and charity workers are ringing the alarm bells for a dangerously approaching new wave of the migration crisis, Europe is still...
by C4EP | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog
BATTLESHIP Is the realpolitik of Macron harming European unity? Three weeks, three hits by French president Emmanuel Macron to the Italian government. First the refusal to open the country’s port to the migrants saved out of the cost of Libya in order to ease...
by C4EP | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog
Is Turkey stuck in the EU’s Friend-Zone? Tuesday’s Press Conference begs the awkward question of Turkey’s stalled accession On Tuesday evening at a two-hour long press conference on EU-Turkey relations, Federica Mogherini, the EU’s High...
by C4EP | Jul 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Just another Old Boy’s Club” UK’s Brexit negotiation team gets bashed as being sexist A new debate is starting to bubble in the common Brexit discourse around Europe, it’s not about citizens’ rights or the single market as per usual;...
by C4EP | Jul 18, 2017 | Event reports
EU-Turkey Deal Panel Debate One year later: lessons learned and the way forward Event report Amanda Taylor (EDAL Coordinator, ECRE) started her speech by clarifying that she would be speaking about the statement from a legal perspective and explained the general...
