Paul Jonker-Hoffrén is a post-doctoral researcher in Sociology at the University of Turku (Finland) Finland has traditionally been regarded as one of the better performing economies in the Eurozone, however the country has struggled with low growth figures over the …
The Real Threat to our Way of Life
Edward Lucas, Senior Fellow, Centre for European Policy Analysis (Washington DC) and Senior Editor, The Economist Written testimony to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, September 3rd, 2014 I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty …
Ten years of EU design law
David Stone, Partner, Intellectual Property, Simmons & Simmons LLP It is not very often that new IP rights are born – and even rarer that they should turn ten years old. This year, EU-wide design law celebrates that significant milestone, …
Making sense of Europe’s Unitary Patent
Gwilym Roberts, Partner and Julia Venner, Associate, Kilburn & Strode, LLP, London, UK As a concept, a unitary European patent has been under discussion, in one form or another, for over four decades. In the last couple of years, however, there …
The Real Meaning of Mogherini
Federiga Bindi is a senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. “At times in foreign policy, we make mistakes …
Ukraine – Time for Real Action
Michael Sonenshine is based in Prague and has lived and worked in Central and Eastern Europe since 1992. He is CEO of Symfonie Capital, LLC. The Ukrainian government faces a serious dilemma in Eastern Ukraine. The pro‐Russian forces operate a …
EU ‘stands ready’ to impose further sanctions on Russia
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP The Council of the European Union held a special meeting on (inter alia) Ukraine yesterday. Its conclusions state that it “stands ready” to take “further significant steps in the light of …
What lies behind Europe’s murky oil deals with Azerbaijan?
Molly Scott Cato, MEP for South West UK, Green Group Beyond hosting the Eurovision song contest or Formula One, few of us in Britain, I suspect, know much about Azerbaijan. In fact, you may find yourself asking whether it really …
Questioning the merits of a referendum on British membership of the EU
John McCormick is Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Politics at the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University. He has published extensively on the politics of the EU, his most recent book being Why Europe Matters: The Case for the European Union. His …
Serbia & Montenegro Russia’s Trojan horse into the EU?
Dimitar Bechev (D.Phil, Oxford) teaches international politics at Sofia University and is affiliated with the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia. His former posts include the directorship of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ office in Bulgaria and lectureships at …