Tag: EU
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European Commission SWAFS
Security with and for Society Advisory Group European Commission, Brussels, 16 June Read more →
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What is new and what is old about the EC presidency
Against the backdrop of the recent boat-rocking European Parliament elections, which saw the extreme right groups—in particular France’s Front National—make prominent inroads, the process of electing on new president of the European Commission is revealing a new story not only about the politics of the post, but about the particular historical setting in which Europe… Read more →
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The societal impact of security research
The societal impact of security research PRIO Policy Brief 9/2012 Download here Read more →
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Dialectical constitutionalism?
Dialectical constitutionalism? in John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez (eds.), A Multitude of Constitutions? European Constitutional Pluralism in Question. Oslo: ARENA, 76-82. Download here Read more →
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What is societal security?
What is societal security? Workshop Security research and Europe’s societal challenges: what do citizens want?, Oslo, 8 June. Download Read more →
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Universal exceptionalism
Exceptionalism is the new word of order in European migration policy. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met on 26 April to propose a fundamental reform of the Schengen border-free area: a national exception to a hard-won European accomplishment: The Schengen Area. The Area, which permits visa-free circulation accross internal borders… Read more →
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The International Community recreates itself
The International Community’s role in the crisis in Libya changed dramatically when NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced on Saturday that NATO Allies ‘have decided to take on the whole military operation in Libya under the United Nations Security Council Resolution’ (see announcement here). The step, he continued, ‘proves NATO’s capability to take decisive… Read more →
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Junk Europe
In a matter of days Hungary becomes the new princess of Europe, taking over the rotating EU presidency from Belgium. As Reuters reports, Moody’s credit rating agency downgraded Hungarian sovereign debt to near junk status from Baa1 to Baa3. Fitch Rating, (the second of the top-three global credit raters, together with Moody’s and Standard &… Read more →
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Europe’s new security providers
Here is a riddle. Who or what authority is it that will assure or not assure the sovereignty of Greece and by consequence a number of other European member states in the months and years to come? Well, we can safely say that it will not be President Karolos Papoulias, the current Greek government, or… Read more →
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Finance and European identity
Members of the Eurozone, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarokzy agreed on 25 March to coordinate financial support to help Greece face its debt problems. The following day the European Council put its weight behind the agreement, solving, at least for the moment, the Greek debt crisis. The crisis has… Read more →