The Lisbon Treaty will give Europe more democracy, more capacity to decide and act and more international prominence.  It will give national parliaments control over the European Commission. The commission will not be able to act in areas not expressly set out in the treaties - for example,...

The recovery plan presented the day before yesterday by the European commission mainly lays emphasis on the budgetary contribution made by the States. In particular Germany has been asked to take greater part in this co-ordinated effort. Chancellor Angela Merkel has ignored this call on the German...

European Issue n°108 published on Robert Foundation website http://www.robert-schuman.org/question_europe.php?num=qe-108 Summary: The Russo-Georgian war extends beyond the simple regional context of the Caucasus, which has already been remodelled by this conflict. The use of force by one...

1998-2008: ten years have passed since the signature of the St-Malo agreement between Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac, which gave rise to European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). Within a decade the strategic situation has changed radically: it has seen a rise in violence in the Middle East, an...