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COP21: The ‘End of the Beginning of the Oil Age?’

13/12/2015 Business

by Alastair Newton & Robyn Nagioff On 30 November, representatives of 196 nations, plus innumerable international organisations and other ‘interested parties’, will assemble in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Confer-ence/21st Session of…

French regional elections: Moment of truth approaches

11/12/2015 Inside Europe

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by Vincenzo Scarpetta A new poll shows that, despite winning over 40% of the vote in the first round of the French regional elections, Front National leader Marine Le Pen and her niece Marion Maréchal-Le…

Six Views on Russia-Ukraine Gas Ties for Coming Winter

11/12/2015 Business, Russia, The Opinion

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Ukraine decided to stop purchases of Russian gas on November 25, adding it will continue to transport Russian gas to European consumers in full accordance with existing contracts. Against this backdrop, Natural Gas Europe…

Can the EU Help Ukraine to Succeed? Reforms, the Russian Factor and Implications for the Eastern Neighbourhood

10/12/2015 Russia

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by Henrik Hallgren & Iryna Solonenko The European Union (EU) is in the process of reassessing its interests and reprioritising its foreign policy objectives, towards its neighbours as well as globally. In November, the European Commission…

Front National’s historic result is yet another sign that EU reform cannot wait

07/12/2015 Inside Europe

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by Vincenzo Scarpetta In an op-ed for The Daily Telegraph, our policy analyst Vincenzo Scarpetta looks at Front National's historic result in the first round of the French regional elections. He argues that the rather impressive…

The UK renegotiation from an EU perspective: the dog that hasn’t yet barked?

05/12/2015 Inside Europe

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by Fabian Zuleeg Given the potential impact on the EU, the UK‘s in/out referendum and the associated reform agenda should be high up the Brussels agenda. But, curiously, so far there has been little obvious activity…

Russia: in search of geopolitical glory

04/12/2015 Russia

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by Sijbren de Jong , Karlijn Jans , Willem Oosterveld With its recent intervention in Syria, many claim that Russia scored yet another geopolitical coup. With the war in Ukraine stalling and Crimea firmly in…

Cameron’s case for bombing Syria is more political grandstanding than comprehensive strategy

04/12/2015 Inside Europe

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by Nasim Ahmed I was probably not alone in wanting to be surprised by British Prime Minister David Cameron as he made the case for air strikes against Daesh/ISIS in Syria to a packed parliament on…

The Limits of European Energy Diplomacy

03/12/2015 Business, The Opinion

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by SIJBREN DE JONG, JAN WOUTERS On November 18, Maroš Šefčovič, the European commissioner for energy union, delivered the first ever State of the Energy Union speech, designed to become an annual moment of reflection on…

The EU’s Proposal for the 2015 Climate Conference in Paris

30/11/2015 Business, Inside Europe

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by Silvia Brugger The European Commission recently released its vision for the global climate change agreement, which is due to be adopted in Paris in December. It is worth noting that the EU is the first…

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