The 10th anniversary of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the EU and Russia, which falls on 1 December 2007, is already prompting thoughts on whether and how to replace it. This raises basic issues about the form, purpose and content of bilateral treaties in the context of...

This study examines the feasibility, content and likely economic impact of a free trade agreement between the EU and Ukraine. A simple and shallow free trade agreement, adding only the elimination of tariffs on trade in goods to the conditions for WTO accession, is the most easily feasible...

This article presents a roundtable discussion on the appropriate level of regulation in Europe. Manfred Neumann presented a theoretical rationale that leans towards the individualistic approach of government competition. Michael Emerson discussed the flexibility offered by the Treaties. Colin...

The next few months are the last opportunity for Turkey to take steps that could influence the european Commissionu0092s recommendation in October on whether the Copenhagen political criteria have been met, and therefore whether to open accession negotiations, with the European Council due to...

The European Union now faces an existential dilemma in the apparent choice to be made between over-extending the enlargement process to the point of destroying its own governability, versus denying one of its founding values to be open to all European democracies and possibly generating negative...

The EC's Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) is conceived to support, under exceptional circumstances and on an ad hoc basis, macroeconomic stabilisation and balance of payments of accession of candidate states and countries covered by the European neighbourhood policy. The study examines the EU's...

CEPS established a template for EU strategy towards the Balkans already during the Kosovo war, and this was refined in the Ljubljana Declaration by the think tanks of the region (with CEPS) in July before the Sarajevo Summit. The subsequent evolution of policy in the region and of the EU and...