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• Global Affairs

  Europe and Africa: Does the future lie in regional integration?

  

  3 May 2012 – Since the 2008 financial crisis and its consequences in Europe, the African continent has been overshadowed by other concerns of European governments. Despite a renewed interest in the Maghreb from the Old Continent aroused by the 2011 Arab revolutions, today Africa as a whole is not considered as a major issue. Yet, Europe and Africa, both in their own ways, are a genuine example of the great potential and the powerful impetus for action that regional integration presents. by Charles Nonne

• Global Affairs

  What the EU can learn from the US presidential race

  

  11 March 2012 – January 2014. Just two days before the first presidential primary, Georgios Papandreou, the former Greek Prime Minister, gives an interview in front of a beautiful scene, the ancient harbour town of Valletta, the Maltese capital. The Maltese (...) by Marian Schreier

• Global Affairs

  An Assessment of Durban COP 17

  

  28 January 2012 – Yet another Conference Of Parties (COP) finished in Durban in December 2011 with yet another decision to postpone action. Like in any European Council summit, after more than a fortnight of multilateral negotiations most national and regional (...) by Joan Marc Simon

• Global Affairs

  The Next Earth Summit: Rio Plus 20

  17 October 2011 – The United Nations, its Specialized Agencies and programmes, member governments and Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are preparing their policies and evaluations to be discussed at the next Earth Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June (...) by Rene Wadlow

• Global Affairs

  Disintegrating European Diplomacy and the Necessary Rise of NGO Mediators

  

  3 October 2011 – On Friday 23 September 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority formally requested that the UN Security Council grant Palestine full membership as a state. Currently the Palestine Liberation Movement (PLO) has an observer (...) by Rene Wadlow

• Global Affairs

  The Path Towards the United States of East Africa

  

  9 September 2011 – Regional integration in sub-Saharan Africa has not achieved much yet. Despite big promises in the past, African heads of state usually fail to deliver. Names given to most African regional blocs reflect the aim rather than the stage of (...) by Johannes Langer

• Global Affairs

  An EU seat in the security council as first step towards a democratic organisation of world security

  

  29 June 2011 – Rise of world regionalism In a more long term and sustainable vision for the SC (Security Council) we should note a growing tendency to regional integration around the world. Oddly, it is in times in which the European integration project finds (...) by Joan Marc Simon

• Global Affairs

  An EU seat in the security council as first step towards a democratic organisation of world security

  

  28 June 2011 – The reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC) is one of the ever-pending issues of world governance. Set up in 1946 , by the winners of the WWII, the UNSC represents a world order that no longer exists - that of France, UK, US, China and Russia (...) by Joan Marc Simon | 1 comment

• Global Affairs

  Global Parliament: It’s the Council’s turn to deal with it

  6 June 2011 – The European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs has recently voted on recommendations to the Council of the European Union on the EU’s policy at the next session of the UN General Assembly. One of the recommendations that are scheduled to (...) by Andreas Bummel

• Global Affairs

  The EU at the UN: a step, not an end in itself!

  

  26 May 2011 – That is, the EU has observer status at the United Nations. On May the 3rd, the majority of 192 states endorsed it. This means that the EU has no right to vote but may participate in meetings and speak out. In a federalist perspective, this, of (...) by Stéphane du Boispéan, Translated by Pauline Gessant

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