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Britain’s move towards forming a new European bloc: Predictions of a chaotic Europe
British Prime Minister David Cameron recently pledged that if he remains Prime Minister after the next election, a referendum will be held regarding Britain’s...
Times of Europe
Six decades after the first thought of creating a Union of European countries, the dominant debate on the supranational and intergovernmental EU structuring and...
Europeans Goodbye?
‘Demography is destiny.’ Ben Wattenberg and Richard M. Scammon In 1825 the world’s population reached, for the first time, the figure of 1 billion...
The modernization calling
The political system of Spain was the next stop for the most common currently phenomenon of the fragmented vote. The center-right and center-left bipartisan...
Backlash Deterrence: Effects of Russian Sanctions on Peripheral Europe
US sanctions throughout history have not always had the best success rate and the current sanctions against Russia may backfire on the United States,...
EU-China Cooperation – Assessment of Key Policy Areas
This paper has a general and also a sectoral angle to analyse EU-China relations. Apart from putting this relationship into a general historical and...
Nord Stream Nr. 2: The Project’s Implications in Europe
Russia, Germany and a consortium of Western European companies have re-activated the Gazprom-led Nord Stream Two gas pipeline project. Parallel to the existing Nord...
The file of the refugee crisis remains open
The massive influx of migrants – Arab and African refugees to Europe – is unanimously considered to have triggered this summer the most serious...
A Europe Created out of Necessity – Is Identity an Impossibility?
In principle identity can be established, reinforced, developed based on: force or grand political deeds like state building; common values, or shared history; tangible...
How the E.U Can Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has almost but disappeared from headlines. Only a bloody war in Gaza or a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv grabs the...