Day: May 7, 2020

The 2017 enthusiasm for permanent structured cooperation appears to have waned - heads of state and government at the PESCO launch ceremony (credit: Council of the EU) The 2017 enthusiasm for permanent structured cooperation appears to have waned - heads of state and government at the PESCO launch ceremony (credit: Council of the EU)

Permanent structured cooperation. States are struggling to meet their commitments

Nicolas Gros Verheyde ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  9 min read

(B2 – exclusive) When one reads the PESCO implementation report (unpublished, but read by B2), one fact jumps out: the States are struggling…

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic was instrumental in opening negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia, as well as in organizing the summit (Credit: Croatian Presidency)

Europe-Balkans. In the absence of a summit, a virtual meeting. Enlargement relegated behind a more hazy European perspective

B2 Writing ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  6 min read

(B2) Almost twenty years after the Zagreb summit which marked the beginning of the Balkan countries' race towards membership of the European Union, a new declaration by...