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I – EU Food Law: an introduction
By Daniele Pisanello, Food Lawyer, Lex Alimentaria Food Law Office In general terms EU Food Law is a distinguished case of product-law as regulations on pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, toys, machineries et cetera are. However EU Food Law has a number of...
About Europarties, and other Political Foundations at European Level
Reading Grahnlaw, I found links to: Call for proposals IX-2011/01 — ‘Grants to political parties at European level’; OJEU 24.6.2010 C 164/12 – The total sum, subject to approval by the budgetary authority, is EUR 17 400 000, in order to be el...
Scrap the behemoths?
The United Kingdom is currently building two new aircraft carriers and planning to upgrade its nuclear weapons system. Some analysts say this is a mistake. But are they right?
Accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo – Advisory Opinion of 22 July
On 22 July 2010 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave its advisory opinion on the initial question: ‘Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international...
Beyond Liberal Democracy – Updated!
On my last day in Budapest, I bought a book from the University Bookshop: Daniel A. Bell. Beyond Liberal Democracy. Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford, 2006. Most books are nowadays also available as e-books, but I wanted to read somethi...
European studies discovers strategy
Why have European studies and strategic studies ignored one another for so long? Why should scholars from both disciplines be more interested in one another’s work? And what can grand strategy’s utility be for research into European foreign, secu...
The Eurozone Crisis and the Delicate Plant Syndrome in European Studies
By Christoph Meyer I cannot help feeling that it is not only Angela Merkel, the Greek state, and Eurostat who have plenty of egg on their faces after the events of the last year. But also European Studies as a discipline with public responsibility ha...
The New European Council Presidency in Action
Preparing for the CEU exam, and trying to answer the question about the impetus for the new European Council Presidency, I first started to think about the Belgium Presidency that began on 1 July 2010 and is paving the way for the Hungarian Presiden...
Conference „New Values after the Lisbon Treaty“
I attended the conference „New Values after the Lisbon Treaty“ today, 7 July 2010, organized by the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. The conference began with registration and welcome buffet (Hungarian kitchen – food as part of identity)...
EU-US Agreement on SWIFT bank data transfer
By Claudia Hillebrand On Monday night, a contested transatlantic counter-terrorism agreement jumped another hurdle. In an extraordinary meeting in Strasbourg, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Co...
Advanced Course in European Union Legal Practice – Has been Regularly Updated
On July, the 4th, I depart for Budapest, with the aim to participate in the Advanced Course in European Union Legal Practice (Special Lisbon Treaty edition). The course has been worked out and is conducted by the Department of Legal Studies, and t...
The Old World’s importance to the new world order
Are the United States and European Union drifting apart? What will this mean for both powers in an increasingly non-European world? And how can a new alliance be formed between two equal partners?
Europe’s World – Summer ‘10 Issue
Europe’s World is the only independent Europe-wide policy journal, produced in association with some 130-plus leading European think tanks and academic institutions. Since its launch in 2005 it has become the premier ideas platform for new thinking...
From Lisbon to Tbilisi…
Wanted to write something about the Europe Day, but after going through pictures of mine, decided to post some of them I’ve snapped during the last couple of years. Most of the pictures are taken by me and few of them by Ann Tsurtsumia.
UK elections… the way out of conservatism
In couple of hours time, we’ll have the results of the UK election. Indeed the ongoing election differs from previous ones in very many extents, as it occurs after or meantime the economic crisis and the biggest budgetary deficit as the result...
Something new…
Quite recently, in the meantime of random EYP conversation, I was asked if I’ve heard about the singer named – “Soko,” obviously my answer was – no! Apparently, I’m quite conservative when it comes to music and alw...
Georgia joins Europe in aviation
Last 5th March Georgia and the European Union initialled a comprehensive air services agreement between Georgia and the EU. The agreement is very important both for the EU and for Georgia. It will bring our aviation relations to an entire new level.
Another tragedy in Katyn
Shocking news indeed! and many questions that need to be responded… 70 years ago soviets murdered Polish elite in Katyn, and today nearly on the same place, huge part of Polish political elite died as the result of plane crash… But most...
