Euractive (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The conflict between Georgia and Russia has seen the EU become the main diplomatic mediator between the two and it should use this status to develop peaceful relations in the region, argue Nicu Popescu et al. in an August 2008 commentary for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Source: Reuters BRUSSELS, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A European Union think tank said on Monday the bloc should make specific commitments to Ukraine after Russia sent troops into Georgia. The European Council on Foreign ...
French Politics (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Nicolas Sarkozy has convoked an extraordinary session of the European Council to fix a policy vis-à-vis Russia in the wake of the Georgia crisis. I trust that the ministers will have read Ronald Steel's counsel of calm before convening. Steel offers some sensible observations to "hyperventilating politicians and commentators": The limits of Russia’s post-cold-war retreat have apparently been
China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
From UC Berkeley's "Conversations With History": Mark Leonard, Executive Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Mark Leonard, Executive Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, for a discussion of the ideas that are influencing the domestic and foreign policy debates in China. Through a ...
Global Dashboard (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
The idea that EU personnel should help keep the peace in Georgia - noted here yesterday but in the air since last week - is gaining traction. Today, the European Council said that the EU would boost OSCE observers there, but that just means more Euros under the OSCE’s flag. But the Council left open the [...]
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
The European Council of Ministers is to hold an emergency meeting in Brussels tomorrow to discuss the ongoing crisis in Georgia.
Education Futures (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Cedefop, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, supplied a comprehensive assessment of Europe’s skills requirements up to 2020 to the European Council. In the study, they identified six employment trends leading to the year 2020 horizon: Services sector still expanding: Europe continues to shift away from manufacturing and agricultural industries Around 20 million new [...]...
newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
Satirist Chris Morris has visited the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva in Switzerland , and has written an article about it for the Guardian, as well as a podcast which you can download from the CERN blog . CERN are the European Council for Nuclear Research. You can see some photos of Chris Morris in combat jacket and hard hat at the CERN Flickr account. "Massive bosons blew my unit" is a wonderful...
PoliGazette (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
‘Since its formation 10 years ago, the idea of a common European defense has hardly made any progress. However, some important lessons can be learned from the decade of wasted opportunities,’ writes Nick Witney of the European Council on Foreign Relations. ©2008 PoliGazette. All Rights Reserved..
Zaadz: Albert 's Blog (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Mark Leonard, Executive Director of European Council on Foreign Relations, considers in an article, originally written for the Spectator, the Wetern ambivalence and imsecurity about the Chinese behavior around Olympics 2008. Big Brother versus YouTube 17.07.08 - Mark Leonard This article was published in the Spectator on 16 July, 2008. ‘For years we couldn't wait for the Olympics to start. Now we can't...
worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Since its formation 10 years ago, the idea of a common European defense has hardly made any progress. However, some important lessons can be learned from the decade of wasted opportunities, writes of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Go to news source
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
( EUREKA ) The European Council of Ministers today agreed to provide 100 million euros from the EU Seventh Framework Program to top up the at least 300 million already provided from national budgets by the 31 countries participating in the joint EUREKA-EU Eurostars Program for R&D-performing small and medium enterprises.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Is a radical re-think needed? EUROPE'S defence policy needs a radical re-think, says Nick Witney, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. In a hard-hitting report on the EU's defence strategy, Mr Witney claims there has been a decade of wasted money and missed targets, and lays out some bold proposals for moving forward. We caught up with him in Paris recently for an illuminating...
Winding Road (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
The head of Ford's European council Dieter Hinkelmann warns that unless the factory at Cologne, Germany starts building a new fuel-efficient three-cylinder engine some of the workers at the factory may end up losing their jobs. Currently, the Cologne plant produces around 200,000 V-6 engines per year for Ford's North American SUVs along with a few V-8 and V-12 engines for Aston Martin. However, this...
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Chairman of Libertas, Declan Ganley, at a private group meeting with President of France and European Council Nicholas Sarkozy said that the Treaty of Lisbon is dead."During the meeting, President Sarkozy himself twice admitted that his own people would vote no to the Lisbon Treaty, as they have already rejected a very similar text in the guise of the failed EU Constitution. For President Sarkozy to...
