Ainslie Noble is the author of Memory, Identity and Violence: Comparing Contemporary Catalonia and the Basque Country in France and Spain. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne. She is a contributing analyst at Wikistrat and has expertise in …
The EU should set explicit press freedom requirements for candidate countries
Jennifer Dunham is a project manager for the annual Freedom of the Press and Freedom in the World reports at Freedom House, a U.S.-based independent watchdog organisation dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world. Despite being viewed as …
UKIP’s appeasement of Russia
MEP @Nigel_Farage : "If we want a war with #Putin then we are going the right way'. debate on #Ukraine & #Russia live http://t.co/sVeSegVEOe — AFET Committee Press (@EP_ForeignAff) September 16, 2014 Ukip describe EU support for #Ukraine as …
Internal party struggles will form the backdrop to Romania’s presidential election
Roxana Mihaila is a Doctoral Researcher and Associate Tutor at the Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex. Her dissertation looks at the role of national political parties in EU decision-making, with a focus on the Lisbon and Fiscal Compact treaties. …
WikiLeaks exposes chats and list of countries being spied through FinFisher
WikiLeaks has exposed secret conversation and list of countries who had their citizens being spied by their own governments through German based Gamma Group International’ FinFisher spyware. In a series 4 of SpyFiles documents, WikiLeaks published that Slovakia, Mongolia, Qatar, South Africa, Bahrain, …
Spain is unlikely to veto an independent Scotland’s EU membership
Dani Cetrà is a Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change (SCCC). If Scotland votes to become independent on 18 September then it will seek to become a member state of the European Union. However some commentators have …
Scotland’s Place in Europe
Bartosz Raubo @braubo On the 18th of September, over 4 million of Scotland’s residents will vote to decide whether the country should secede from the United Kingdom to which it has been bound for over three centuries and forge its …
New EU Russia sanctions published
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP As foreshadowed, the European Union has today published its new sanctions relating to Russia. They take the form of: (a) expanded criteria for including people and entities on the …
The Pope’s lobbyist
The EU Bubble Original The Pope’s foreseen visit to the European Parliament in November is not merely a symbolic occurrence. Many atheists would just wave their hand away at the thought of it. However, the pope is the head of …
Taking the Temperature in Brussels
Roderick Parkes heads the EU Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. In recent days, EU leaders have named a new chair of the European Council, the body that brings together EU heads of state and government, appointed the next high …