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Kosovo’s Track to Europeanization: Moving beyond top-down mechanisms

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Europeanization has transformed from an aspiration to an obligation and this in term has created a need for sacrificing internal democracy in terms of EU integration. Subsequently, in most cases, this results in not only a lack of implementation but more importantly a lack of ability to implement legislation. The difference being that lack of implementation may come due to lack of political will, whilst lack of ability to implement comes from the weak absorption of transformative power that the EU intends to achieve. […]

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Whose carbon price is it anyway? Strengthening carbon markets in the European Union through Fit for 55

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Carbon pricing has been the European Union’s cornerstone in the fight against climate change since the start of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) setup in 2005. The ETS functions by imposing a cap on the total emissions allowed in the EU and requiring polluters to submit emission allowances (EUAs) for each tonne of carbon produced during the span of a year. […]

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US-EU Digital Relations in Practice: Part I

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The volume of digital trade between the United States and the European Union is the largest in the world, and a cornerstone of the global digital economy. Total EU-US trade in goods and services doubled from $594 billion to $1.2 trillion between 2003 and 2017. In the year 2018, American trade in digitally-enabled services with Europe topped $333 billion dollars, with exports from the US reaching $213 billion and imports $120 billion – a $93 billion trade surplus. […]

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Coffee Conversation Recording and Summary. What Security in the Black Sea Region? A first glimpse into the main actors, events and challenges

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On April 29th, PfEU held its second Coffee Conversation of the month, “The New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Returns as a Solution to European Solidarity?”. Our guest speaker was Florian Trauner, Professorial Fellow (UNU-CRIS), Jean Monnet Chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. He recently published a discussion paper together with Olivia Sundberg Diez on the effects of the New pact, which inspired this discussion. Our moderator was Chibuye Changwe, one of PfEU’s Migration Research Associates. […]

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A Turning Point: How the EU’s Response Could Change Geopolitics in Eastern Europe

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As is well reported on by now, Belarusian authorities ordered a Ryanair flight traveling from Athens to Vilnius to make an emergency landing in Minsk just a few days ago. The flight was accompanied by a MiG-29. Their aim was to arrest dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich, which they brazenly did, and trotted him out to do a coerced speech where he was clearly shaken and physically assaulted. What was even more bizarre was the fact that the Belarusian government blamed Hamas for putting a bomb on the grounded Ryanair flight. Of course, Hamas denied any responsibility. […]

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The battle for the jus soli

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Following the proposal by the Italian politician Enrico Letta, who recently became secretary of the Democratic Party, the debate on jus soli – namely the birthright citizenship, which allows anyone born in the territory of a State to nationality or citizenship – has been renewed in Italy. A new law for jus soli would be crucial for hundreds of thousands of children and teenagers that live in the country since birth but without having obtained citizenship yet. […]

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