The EU: a guardian of the right to leisure for children with disabilities?
In this article, Anissa presents a state of play on the actions taken by the EU in order to help the access to leisure to disabled children.
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Category: Cartes blanches
The Anonymous People of Migration
The project Anonimii Migratiei explores migration from a novel angle, by documenting the stories of the elderly and the remaining children in the targeted localities.
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Brexit and its prophet
Professor Mario Telò analyzes David Frost’s conference at the ULB and highlights the ensuing concerns over the post-Brexit area.
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The Venice Commission turns 30: Celebrating its crucial role in the promotion of rule of law standards
What is the role of the European Commission for Democracy through Law – better known as the Venice Commission – in the rule of law controversies? And which is its impact? These are highly topical issues, especially if we consider the recent events in Hungary and Poland and their backsliding into authoritarian regimes.
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Rule of law as integral part of the next MFF: to what extent and why?
The impact of a potential rule of law conditionality in the management of EU funds is at the center of this piece by Maria Schinina, official representative of the Italian Chamber of deputies to the European Parliament and participant in the IEE's MEUS.
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Benedek Jávor says the Hungarian case shows the EU's shortcomings
Amelie Tagu, student in European Studies, dialogues with Benedek Jávor, former Member of the European Parliament, on the Rule of Law in Hungary and what it tells us about the situation within the European Union.
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Protecting the rule of law in the European Union: The Court of Justice to the rescue
A commentary on the judgment Commission v. Poland II judgment of 5 November 2019 (C-192/18), regarding the rule of law in the European Union, by Ludovic Badet, IEE alumnus in European Law.
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The rule of law debate on the EU agenda. A look inside the Council
As the General Affairs Council sets to meet on December 10, with a focus on Article 7 procedures, Prof. Ramona Coman looks at the rule of law debate in the EU agenda.
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Georges Dassis: "The future should not be worse, but better"
Georges Dassis, former President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) interviewed by two of our students, confides about European solidarities, Brexit and the unfinished social dimension of Europe.
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For a well-balanced outcome 30 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall
1989-2019, for a well-balanced outcome : from the people’s desire for freedom in 1989 to the political union of the EU? Mario Telò's, President Emeritus of the IEE-ULB, answers our 'Question Time'.
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How Does the EU Communicate in Times of Contestation?
Communicating to legitimize the EU has been an evolutive process for the European Commission. Communication cannot, however, replace policymaking. If the persisting top-down approach that defines priorities, validates them through dialogue and informs the marketing of the EU as a brand does not evolve towards a bottom-up approach where citizens speak up and are capital in defining policy-making priorities, the communication efforts will end-up falling short and will not function as a bridge to approach citizens to the EU institutions.
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The Turkish-Kurdish crisis: an essential test for the EU's CFSP?
The Turkish-Kurdish crisis: an essential test for the European Union's Common Foreign Security Policy? Mario Telò's, President Emeritus of the IEE-ULB, proposes an analysis of the crisis.
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Brexit LOL : an analysis of the cartoons in the British press
Among the many reactions to Brexit in public discourse and the media, cartoons are both a way of laughing at this political event and a revealing representation of the paradox inherent to Brexit. We can find in them an interpretation of the event itself, the actors considered as the most important as well as their roles, but also the importance of the different political dimensions in the Brexit negociations. The drawings that we have chosen to analyse are the cartoons published in the British media between 2016 and 2018 that explicitly comment on Brexit.
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The EP after the 2019 European elections: a vector for change?
Andrew Bradley sheds light on the outcome of the 2019 European elections and the role of the new European Parliament.
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The European Elections : the Risk of "Muddling Through"
Mario Telo analyses the results of the European elections, highlighting the different challenges for the future of the EU and the impact of the Europhobes on the ballot.
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Discussing the future of Europe differently
Luis Bouza García, member of the OpenEUdebate Jean Monnet network, explains the important task of discussing the future of Europe in a new, different way.
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Alstom-Siemens : "The question is what kind of champion will satisfy European interests and not only those of France and Germany"
Jurist Nicolas Joncheray refutes the critics of France's miniter of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, agains the European Commission's decision in an article published by French newspaper Le Monde.
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Cartes blanches
Jan 16, 2019
A Timely Call for a Social Union
A Social Union cannot just mean more EU level legislation, as it cannot purely be built through more policy coordination or through budgetary instruments either. All three arms of governance have to play a role and in due coordination. László Andor writes.
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Brexit, the European dead end?
After the official activation of article 50, on March 29th, 2017, the European Union and the United Kingdom had two years to negocitate a deal. Here we are in november and the draft agreement of 585 pages has just been released, with the issues around the Irish border not completely solved
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Not too close but not too far away: The EU’s relations with the new Turkey
As a result of the June elections, there are three constraining factors that might further distance Turkey from the EU. Political scientist and IEE-ULB affiliated researcher Seda Gürkan analyses them in this article.
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Towards equal access to education for students with disabilities
What must a University do to progress towards inclusion of students with disabilities? This blogpost comments a recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on the issue (Enver Şahin v Turkey) and developments in Belgium and in our University.
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The new course of Italian Politics: time to experiment
A new government led by the League and the Five Stars Movement represents a novelty and an element of unpredictability for Italy and Europe. Political scientist Luca Tomini underlines a problem the EU might soon be confronted with: a new challenge to liberal democracy, that subscribes to a global and European trend.
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The need for a transatlantic agenda for cyberspace
The speed in which cyberspace evolves as well as the versatility of cyber-attacks leaves many governments and economic actors defenceless when it comes to facing one of the most serious challenges of the beginning of the 21st century.
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Carte blanche of Christophe Leclercq : "A Media Sector fit for Digital Europe"
Christophe Leclercq is the founder of EurActiv.com, a policy media publishing in 12 languages across 12 countries. He also leads Foundation EurActiv and its ‘Media4EU’ project, in cooperation with ULB. Mr. Leclercq is also teaching a course at ULB /IEE in the academic year 2016/17, together with Prof. Ramona Coman in the framework of the Executive Master in EU Studies.
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Cartes blanches
Jun 07, 2017
Reflections on a European base of social rights
In March 2017, following a public consultation, the European Commission published its initiative for the adoption of a European Social Rights Base. In our opinion, this "communication - programme" has the following characteristics.
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Macron and Europe: three messages of hope
Mario Telò, President Emeritus of the Institute and Director of the GEM Doctoral School, considers that Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential elections is not only a relief for all Europeans because of the catastrophe avoided (Le Pen President), but a rational signal of hope that France will regain its role as a dynamic factor of integration, as it was in the days of Jacques Delors and François Mitterrand.
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Cartes blanches
Apr 27, 2017
EU-Turkey relations in the aftermath of Turkey's constitutional referendum
Seda Gürkan (CEVIPOL, IEE-ULB) analyses why the Turkish presidential system is likely to induce far-reaching changes in EU-Turkey relations, and questions whether the regime change in Turkey has the potential to put an end to Turkey's EU journey.
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The 60th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. Towards a new integration dynamic?
On 25 March, the EU celebrates the 60th of the founding treaties with a positive and controversial outcome.
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Cartes blanches
Mar 16, 2017
The "humanitarian visas" case. Drama in Aleppo: dodging in Luxembourg, hope in Brussels?
This case comes within the context of a political-media crisis following certain decisions of the Belgian Aliens Litigation Council on humanitarian visas and the injunction addressed to the Belgian State, under penalty of penalty, to issue such visas to other Syrians in a similar situation.
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Cartes blanches
Mar 02, 2017
From Rome to Rome: The Political Economy of the 60th Anniversary
In this "carte blanche," László Andor reflects on the economic, political and social challenges of the Eurozone as the 60th anniversary of the Rome Treaty approaches.
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Cartes blanches
Jan 27, 2017
Will TTIP be rebranded as "Trump Trade and Investment Partnership"?
When Donald Trump takes the oath of office, he will inherit President Obama's legacy on trade -with negotiations towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership ongoing. TTIP's future is uncertain. Tereza Novotna outlines five scenarios for what actions Trump may take.
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Trump and the European Union: from indifference to abandonment?
A few hours before his swearing in, Donald Trump remains an enigma on the international scene. The Chancelleries are waiting for him. Just like the Presidents of the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament, who, until now, have only exchanged by telegram with the 45th American President.
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Does the European Union's trade policy still have a future?
The European Union, twenty-seven of its member states and Canada have their sights set on Belgium, where opposition from several federated entities is blocking the signing of the AETE between Canada, on the one hand, and the European Union and its member states, on the other; Bulgaria and Romania, on the other hand, are forcing Canada to make concessions in the visa field.
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The Italian referendum and its European implications
Mario Telo presents the consequences of the NO victory in the Italian referendum on the constitutional reform of December 4, 2016, relating among other things to the provisions for the end of parity bicameralism, the reduction in the number of parliamentarians and the control of the operating costs of institutions.
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The state of the Union on a Brexit background
Two and a half months after the vote on 23 January, the date of notification of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) under Article 50 of the EU Treaty is not yet known.
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Britain heads forwards into the past
After months of speculating and suspense, the Brits made up their minds as 51.9% voted in favour of Brexit. Europe is hungover this morning as a period of uncertainty starts, write Nathalie Brack and Amandine Crespy.
Read MoreThe Aranyosi and Caldarararu cases or the contribution of the European Court of Justice to the balance between freedom and security
In the current context, marked by the multiplication of terrorist attacks and the threat that accompanies them, the need to find a fair balance between the "security" pole (fight against impunity) and the "freedom" pole (protection of fundamental rights) is particularly acute
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Carte blanche to François Foret: "Europe between Pope and Jihad"
On 6 February, Pope Francis, the first non-European Pontiff in history, was awarded the Charlemagne Prize for a personality who has worked for European unification
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Safeguarding EU’s values at the supranational level. Towards increased cooperation with the Council of Europe
Over the past few decades, EU institutional actors have had to deal with a series of situations which made headlines for their potential to undermine both the quality of democracy within the European Union (EU) and European values.
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Brexit/Bremain, towards a Europe with concentric circles?
The United Kingdom contributes not only to the European budget, but also to the economic (second economy) and political strength of the EU as a global power. Its exit would seriously weaken the EU's presence and image in the multipolar and dangerous world in which we live.
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