Future of EU

In a region that is no stranger to instability, neither the EU’s existing Eastern Partnership programme nor its ambiguous accession process will cut it.

While the future of enlargement is unclear within the EU, in Ukraine the push to move closer to the EU and NATO has kept momentum.

According to Oxford academic Kalypso Nicolaïdis, the EU is much more resilient than it gets credit for. We sat down to discuss the state of the Union today and the key challenges to safeguard the future of Europe in a time when the world needs it most.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals are not just a tool for developing countries. They should drive EU responses to today’s many challenges.

In its quest for competitiveness, the EU is becoming an increasingly coercive system, controlling members through a myriad of rules and mechanisms.

The Green Observatory provides a round-up of perspectives on a current political issue from the Green European Journal’s partners around Europe. This first edition focuses its lens on Brexit: how is the referendum on UK membership being discussed in different countries? And what could be the potential consequences on the ground in the case of a vote to leave the EU?