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  • The Commission should stand firm on Iceland's accession negotiations
    Insight by Stephen Tindale, 08 August 2012
    Iceland & the EU
  • Is Turkey our partner now?
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 28 November 2011
    Is Turkey our partner now?
  • Palestinian reconciliation is an opportunity for peace
    Bulletin article by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 June 2011
    Palestinian reconciliation is an opportunity for peace
  • 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.
  • What Arab countries think of democracy
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 21 May 2008

    Earlier this month, the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) presented its first report on the state of democratic reform in the Arab world. ARI is a consortium of a dozen leading Arab research institutes which try to promote peaceful democratic reform across the Middle East (CER and a few other non-Arab think-tanks are associated with the initiative).
  • France finds a friend in Ukraine
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 02 May 2008

    The government of Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a charm offensive towards Ukraine. French diplomats in Brussels have begun saying that Ukraine should have a ‘privileged’ status with the EU.
  • Turkey: The constitutional frontline
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Open democracy, 14 April 2008

    A legal case against Turkey's ruling party reopens the secular-Islamist argument over the country's future. It's time for wise leadership, says Katinka Barysch.
  • Turkey's turmoil, the EU's reaction
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 10 April 2008

    Political turmoil is nothing new in Turkey. After six years of unusual stability, tensions have mounted since early 2007. The army threatened to topple the AKP government in case it made Abdullah Gul president.
  • The EU, Israel and Hamas
    Working paper by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 04 April 2008

    The US has embarked on a new attempt to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, backed by wide international support. But the situation on the ground between Israel and the Palestinians is so bad that peace looks out of reach for now.

  • For a new Iran policy
    Bulletin article by Christoph Bertram , 01 April 2008

    For almost six years now the West has tried – and failed – to stop the Iranian nuclear programme. Instead, nuclear enrichment has become a matter of Iranian national pride and sovereignty.

  • The Czechs in the EU: In the middle of the class
    Insight by Charles Grant, 10 March 2008

    On a recent visit to Prague, people kept asking me how the Czech Republic was doing as EU member-state, and whether it was a successful member.