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  • Europe's struggle for influence in Egypt
    Insight by Rem Korteweg, 23 August 2013
    Europe's struggle for influence in Egypt
  • Turkey’s Twitter generation is its European future
    Insight by Heather Grabbe, 19 June 2013
    Gezi park protest
  • Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
    Bulletin article by Rem Korteweg, 25 March 2013
    Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
  • The EU's new borderlands
    Working paper by Judy Batt, 03 October 2003

    With the 2004 enlargement, the EU will acquire many new neighbours, some of them unstable states with fragile economies. This working paper explains why the regions along the EU's new eastern border matter for Europe's security.
  • Tough love for the EU's Eastern neighbours
    Bulletin article by Heather Grabbe and Henning Tewes , 01 August 2003

    After it embraces ten new members in 2004, the EU will have long borders with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Few people in today's EU know or care much about these countries.
  • Difficult but necessary: A transatlantic strategy for the greater Middle East
    Briefing note by Steven Everts, 10 June 2003

    The US and Europe have to succeed in an exceptionally difficult undertaking. They have to meet not just a single or double challenge, but a triple one: They need to prove, to each other and the rest of the world, that the principal rationale of the US-European partnership is indeed no longer the bilateral relationship and the broader European agenda, but their ability to tackle, together, the growing problems of a troubled world.
  • An unconventional bargain
    Bulletin article by Steven Everts and Daniel Keohane, 02 June 2003

    The Convention on the future of Europe has now entered its final phase. To the surprise of many it has already reached consensus on many elements of a new constitution for the EU.
  • Does enlargement matter for the EU economy?
    Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 07 March 2003

    The economies of the new member-states are too small to have much impact on the current EU. The EU as a whole has gained from enlargement and will continue to do so. But labour intensive industries and border regions will have to cope with increased competition.
  • The Europeans can stick together on Iraq
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, 07 February 2003

    The emergency EU summit on Iraq has produced a useful statement on what unites Europeans in their dealing with the Iraq crisis. After the very public squabbling of recent days and weeks, EU leaders pulled back from the brink and decided to underline the common ground between them.
  • Is an old versus new European divide replacing East against West?
    Bulletin article by Heather Grabbe, 03 February 2003

    Are there really two Europes, as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims? His assertion in January that France and Germany represented an 'old Europe' seemed confirmed by the emergence of a 'new Europe' just a few weeks later.
  • The EU and the Middle East: A call for action
    Working paper by Steven Everts, 03 January 2003

    The EU urgently needs a more effective and coherent Middle East strategy. With war looming against Iraq and violence escalating between Israelis and Palestinians, the EU is under intense pressure to spell out what it can do to solve these problems.