Transatlantic Topics | EU 

• Will the EU need to change its treaties to deal with the euro crisis? CTR Distinguished Fellow and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton tackles the issue here. 

• A Strong Europe in a Globalized World: From the Hungarian to the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  CTR hosted a conference on June 17 on this topic. Click here for more.
  

• The Eurozone Crisis is a Crisis of European Politics
  CTR's John Bruton explains here, in a speech for the Google Leaders Forum.
  
  
• The Polish Presidency or the end of the 'New Europe'
  CTR's David Cadier comments here for Le Monde on the Polish EU Presidency (in French).
  
  
• Far-Right Parties Gain Ground In European Politics
  CTR's Kurt Volker comments here for NPR.

• The Geopolitics behind Europe's Libya Split
  Former CTR Fellow Luis Simón Navarro explains in European Voice.

• British Geostrategy for a New European Age
  Luis Simón Navarro and James Rogers argue for a new UK approach in the RUSI Journal.

• Italy and the European Union
  CTR's Federiga Bindi released her new book in April 2011. Read "Bored by Brussels: Why does Italy punch so far below its weight in the European Union?" in the The Economist.

• A Critical Time for Ireland and for Europe
  CTR Distinguished Fellow and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton discusses the challenges here.

• Turkey’s EU Membership: A win-win case
  Egemen Bagis, Minister for European Union Affairs and Chief Negotiator of Turkey, spoke at CTR on March 18. Read his prepared remarks.

• The law on and practice of state secrets in Germany
  CTR's Thorsten Wetzling comments here in Alternatives Internationales (in French).

• Germany's Draft, Dodged for Good
  CTR Senior Fellow Elizabeth Pond discusses the end of conscription in Germany here.
  
  
• Fixing the Euro While Fixing the EU’s Democratic Deficits
  CTR Senior Fellow and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton proposes some innovations here.
  
  
• Operation EUFOR TCHAD/RCA and the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy
  CTR Non-Resident Fellow Bjoern Seibert provides a look inside the workings of an EU military operation, highlights successes and failures, and draws lessons learned in his new monograph here with the U.S. Army War College.
  
  
• Previewing the Lisbon Summit
  CTR Senior Fellow Don Jensen comments here in Voice of America, November 2010.
  
  
• A Conversation with Ambassador William C. Eacho III, U.S. Ambassador to Austria
  Click here for Ambassador Eacho's remarks at CTR on the transition from the private sector to diplomacy, his perspective on transatlantic relations and the world from Vienna.
  
  
• Europe gives up IMF seat to emerging powers, China
  Europe is adjusting to shifts in power, EurActiv reports here.
  
  
• Europe in the IMF
  Is Europe over-represented in international institutions? CTR Director Dan Hamilton comments for Swiss Broadcasting here (English) and here (French).  CEPS Director Daniel Gros takes a look here.

• Thanks to Sarkozy: Deportations of Roma are finally an issue
  Vedran Dzihic, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at CTR, comments here in Die Presse.

• EU Trilateralism: Germany, France, Britain, and the Failed Attempt to Turn the EU into a Serious Global Player
  CTR Senior Fellow Klaus Larres comments here.

• Two Decades of a United Germany
  CTR Senior Fellow Michael Haltzel offers a balance sheet here.

• Europe, the Systemic Consequences of the Slowly Abating Crisis and the Need to Reformulate the Case for Capitalism
  Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, spoke at CTR on Wednesday September 22.  Click here for his written remarks or here for the event audio.

• Reasons for European Optimism
  CTR's Kurt Volker shares his thoughts in an interview with the European Council on Foreign Affairs here.

• Fulfilling the Promise of Peace: Human Rights, Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and Bosnia
  Read the written testimony of CTR's Kurt Volker to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs here.

• Europe Gets It Right
  CTR's Kurt Volker comments here, with Juan Zarate in Foreign Policy, on the continent's surprising comeback.

• How does the world view the EU?
  CTR Director and others comment in Opinion Corner's e-magazine here.

• The Future of the European Model
  CTR's Kurt Volker and SAIS' Mitchell Orenstein share thoughts here and here in The American Interest.

• Europe Needs A New Model
  CTR Senior Fellow and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton discusses the impact of the Greek crisis here and Europe's need for a new development model here.

• The EU must prove itself as a Global Player
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton's interview with Austrian daily Der Standard (in German) here.

• China's Europe crisis
  Bruce Stokes traces the impact of Europe's financial crisis on China and the U.S. here in the National Journal.

• Difficult Birth: The Ongoing Saga of the EU's External Action Service
  The Guardian's Ian Traynor explains in ESharp! here.
  
  
• Euro Bailout -- Europe wins, Merkel loses
  Peter Seidel, member of CTR's editors network, comments here in the San Francisco Chronicle.
  
  
• The New European Parliament: Politics and Power in Today's European Union
  President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek spoke at CTR on April 29. Click here for the event audio. CTR Director Dan Hamilton suggests ways to improve transatlantic legislative ties in Global Europe here.
  
  
• The Lisbon Treaty and EU Trade Policy- How does the treaty change things?
  Anne Pollet-Fort and Arturs Alksnis explain it here.
  
  
• Spanish Foreign Policy: Something New? Or More of the Same?
  Charles Powell tells us here
  
  
• How Can the EU’s new External Action Service work?
  Julia Lieb and Martin Kremer from SWP explain here.
  
  
• "Iraq, Afghanistan, and Obama?"
  CTR's Kurt Volker appears on Atlantic TV's "American Dream" program here and gives his assessment of the Afghanistan Confernce in London here on the CBC's Power & Politics with Evan Solomon.
  
  
• Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors
  New book by CTR Non-Resident Fellow Fabrizio Tassinari.
  
  
• The World in 2025
  The European Commission has released The World in 2025: geopolitical transformations in terms of population, economic development, international trade and poverty; tensions over natural resources, migration and urbanization; and uneasy trade-offs between production and consumption, rural and urban living; and the impact of Asia's rise.

• Walls Still to Fall
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton lived in Berlin when the Berlin Wall opened in 1989. Read his commentary on that night and the walls still to fall in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Miami Herald. For a Polish perspective, read  Marcin Zaborowski here. CTR Senior Fellow Tom Omestad reflects on the Velvet Revolution in The New Republic.  Read his original 1989 piece in The New Republic. Read Senator John McCain's November 9 speech at CTR on "Why Freedom Still Matters" here.
  

• The Czech EU Presidency: Ready or Not
  Jiri Pehe looks at the prospects here in Central Europe Digest.

• It’s not just Greece
  The marginalizing of young people could be a recipe for unrest throughout Europe, notes SAIS Professor Erik Jones here.

• Top 10 Things to Know about the New Treaty of Lisbon
  27 EU leaders have approved a new treaty that replaces the effort to establish an EU constitutional treaty some years ago. It must be ratified by January 2009. How is this treaty different? What does it mean for Europe? Click here for the Top Ten answers.

• The State of the Union, Schuman Report 2008
  This publication by the Robert Schuman Foundation offers unique analyses and maps along with vital data on Europe, just as the ratification process of the Lisbon Treaty is underway and the French Presidency of the European Union is about to start. Essay authors include French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junckerhave, and CTR's Esther Brimmer.  Click here for more.
  
  
• How the Union for the Mediterranean will work 
  CTR's Fabrizio Tassinari comments in the EU Observer about possible configurations of a Mediterranean Union here.

• The Eastern Partnership : What is It? by CAP's Sebastian Schaeffer and Dominik Tolksdorf. The Polish Institute of International Affairs examines the EP in detail here.
  
  
• Iceland prepares for EU membership From EurActiv.
  
  
• Sailing the Black Sea 
  The EU is about to announce its policy towards the Black Sea region.  What can be expected? CTR Fellow Fabrizio Tassinari explains here and here. 
  

• The Baltic States: Still Punching Above their Weight
  Read CTR Director Dan Hamilton's article in the March issue of Current History here.
  
  
• "What Future For EU Enlargement? Can the EU Continue Using its Transformative Power Effectively?"
  On September 26, 2007, EU Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn spoke at CTR - click here to read his prepared remarks.

• Slovenia's EU Presidency
  Tiny Slovenia assumes the presidency of the European Union for six months. CTR Fellow Elizabeth Pond outlines its priorities here.

• Taking the Long View: the Foreign-Policy Consequences of the French Elections in Historical Context
  CTR Visiting Fellow Erwan Lagadec argues here that the French presidential election is a generational turning point in the sense that its historical backdrop, beyond the Chirac years, has been the end of the Gaullist vision of France and of French foreign policy.

• Golden Moment: The EU at 50
  Critics charge that Europe is fading. But as the EU celebrates its golden anniversary, Andrew Moravcic takes some stocktaking -- and discovers a bright future in Newsweek's cover story, March 26, 2007, here.

• Toward a More Independent Europe
  New publication by CTR Non-Resident Fellow Michael Brenner here in March 2007.

• French Elections and the Future of the EU
  Click here for commentary by French scholars Emmanuelle Laloum and Stine Rasmussen.

• Turkey and the EU: A Progress Report
  William Chislett takes a look here.
  
  
• Serbia's Odd Couple
  Can Serbia's odd leadership couple reconcile their nation with Europe? Click here for commentary by CTR Fellow Elizabeth Pond.
  
  
• Making Bosnia Work
  Bosnia is drawing closer to the EU, but CTR Fellow Ed Joseph and Bruce Hitchner argue that EU accession is not enough in a USIP policy brief here.
  
  
  
• Progress Report on EU Membership Candidates
  On Nov. 6, the EU released its annual report on all candidates, including Turkey, as well as a strategy for future enlargement. For copies of the documents click here.
  
  
• EU Glum on Turkish Membership
  The EU's Nov 6 progress report on Turkey's bid for membership confirms that Ankara is up for a bumpy and long ride, notes CTR Fellow Fabrizio Tassinari in the EU Observer here.
  
  
• EU tightens enlargement rules, partially suspends Turkey talks
  For analysis and summaries, click here.
  
  
• EU Enlargement: What Next?
  The European Commission has released a strategy report on enlargement and challenges for 2007. To read the report, click here.
  
  
• Tough EU Progress Report Released on Turkish Accession
  For analysis and the 2006 report, click here.