Volume 38 (2015), Edition 3

Although EU enlargement policy is of utmost strategic importance for the European Union, it is not being shown the necessary attentiveness by the European public, which has its eyes set on internal crises. This has created the impression amongst the...

The relationship between the European Union and Russia has reached a new low in the course of the ongoing Ukraine crisis. The question of how Europe should behave in this crisis vis-à-vis Russia is still under debate between politicians and...

The article raises the questions whether the European Union can - according to its own claim - profile itself as a liberalising force in the WTO, and if the Union can enforce its specific interests in the WTO agenda setting. Special focus is put on...

The deep crisis in the euro zone influenced the recent reform of European cohesion policy for the funding period 2014-2020. The policy has to obey the constraints of tight budgets. The Commission reacted to this challenge by implementing new...