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The migrant crisis and EU border fences

September 25, 2015

A few days ago while seeing the hundreds of refugees from the Middle East flock on Greek ferries, buses, taxis and trains in their drive north to the Macedonian border, I recalled a 20-page seminar paper I was required to write on the question of frontiers at Sciences po Toulouse. The year was 2010, just… » read more

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E.U., External Relations, Security

, Balkans, Central Europe, E.U., Middle East, Security, Turkey

EU: Dark Clouds on Eurozone Sky

August 3, 2015

In Wolfgang Schaeuble’s Germano-centric EU, no institution is more important – apart from his Politburo-like Eurogroup and the Office of the Chancellor – than his Ministry’s Council of Economic Advisers. The most influential adviser among them is Professor Hans-Werner Sinn from Munich, a Christian missionary-manqué turned tele-economist. Like any good German, Professor Sinn has but… » read more

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E.U., Economy & Euro, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, Security

, E.U., economics, euro, Greece

EU: Undoing Germany’s “Reluctant” Hegemony

July 30, 2015

To those in the know, the Italian peninsula was not only the cradle of the Roman Empire or Rome the centre of the Catholic faithful, but also the birthplace of capitalism and of countless statecraft innovations and institutions still widely used around the world today. During the middle ages, the Italian city-states thus discovered and… » read more

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E.U., Economy & Euro, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, External Relations, Security

, E.U., euro, France

EU’s Regional Security Concerns

October 27, 2010

Slowly but surely, EU leaders are waking up to the fact that they should take regional security into their own hands and promote a neighbourhood diplomacy which would eventually have to exclude NATO or the United States, but would be inclusive of Russia and Turkey. This is the new geostrategic context in which the Sarkozy-Merkel-Medvedev… » read more

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Energy Supply, English, External Relations, Security

, ASEAN, China, E.U., India, Latin America, NATO, oil, resources, Russia

Disputed borders – a trip-wire for war

October 14, 2010

Whilst the world’s attention was recently focused on a relatively minor incident involving disputed islands in the South China Sea, the 4,000-km disputed border between India and China is quietly being beefed up militarily by both sides. In the words of M. Taylor Fravel, borders specialist with MIT, the border in question is “the most… » read more

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English, External Relations, Security

, Asia, China, India, Pakistan, Security, UK, USA

“The mother of all problems”

August 2, 2010

What do Turkey, a non EU member, Spain and Romania have in common ? All three countries are currently affected by the re-emergence of powerful ethnic conflicts. Not long ago, the Catalunians took to the streets to ask for the independence of their province, after they had obtained a large measure of autonomy in 2006.… » read more

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English, Enlargement & Neighbours, External Relations, Security

, Romania, Spain, Turkey

NATO 2020 and the “renewal of vows”

May 31, 2010

The release of the NATO 2020 Report on the 17th of May could be regarded as a disappointment by European military and political experts. The sages that put it together could not logically explain why we should continue to keep a military and political organisation designed to defend the Euro-Atlantic world from the threats posed… » read more

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English, EU Priorities and Opinion, External Relations, Security

, NATO, USA

NATO’s Changed Nature

April 13, 2010

Until the end of the Cold War, NATO insured the security of a recovering Europe. The protection afforded by the NATO umbrella has allowed Western European nations to rebuild their war-torn economies, to unite and our continent to become one of the most prosperous and peaceful places on earth. Following the dismantling of its arch-enemy’s… » read more

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English, External Relations, Security

, NATO, USA

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