Publications

  • The latest Euro-Med jamboree
    The latest Euro-Med jamboree
    16 July 2008

    On July 13th 2008, President Sarkozy, surrounded by 42 EU and Mediterranean leaders, launched his pet project, the Union for the Mediterranean. The Paris summit was a success.
  • Russia and the multipolar myth
    Russia and the multipolar myth
    Insight by Bobo Lo
    04 July 2008

    I attended a curious conference the other week in Moscow. It was a posh event with a stellar cast and the grand, even pompous, title of ‘Forging common futures in a multipolar world’.
  • The CER guide to the French presidency
    The CER guide to the French presidency
    04 July 2008

    France's EU presidency was always going to be ambitious, with wideranging plans for climate change, immigration and defence. Now, however, France will have to focus on resolving the legal and institutional mess created by the Irish No to the EU's Lisbon treaty.
  • Can the EU thaw frozen conflicts
    Can the EU thaw frozen conflicts
    Insight by Tomas Valasek
    30 June 2008

    The Czech government floated proposals in May that would see the EU take a more active role in solving frozen conflicts in eastern Europe. The Czechs hold the EU’s rotating presidency next year, so their wish may become reality.
  • Tough choices to avoid euro-paralysis
    Tough choices to avoid euro-paralysis
    Insight by Hugo Brady
    19 June 2008

    The Irish did the wrong thing for the right reasons in their referendum on the Lisbon treaty. Voters rejected an international treaty, the benefits of which did not seem to merit a change to the country's constitution.
  • Humanising China
    Humanising China
    Insight by Bobo Lo
    05 June 2008

    An extraordinary thing happened to China the other week. Not the Sichuan earthquake, even though that was an enormous, catastrophic event. Nor even the phenomenal popular response to this tragedy.

  • Will the Irish guillotine Lisbon?
    Will the Irish guillotine Lisbon?
    Briefing note by Hugo Brady
    04 June 2008

    On 12 June 2008 Ireland will hold the EU's only referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. With the campaign entering its decisive phase, polls indicate that the vote could be dramatically close with turnout determining the result.

  • Willing and able? EU defence in 2020
    Willing and able? EU defence in 2020
    Essay by Daniel Keohane, Tomas Valasek
    02 June 2008

    Demand for military forces is growing. And the Europeans increasingly turn to the EU when in need of troops for peacekeeping or for delivering humanitarian aid. But will the EU be able to keep up with the demand?