Defence, diplomacy, crises, powers
(B2) The EU General Court delivered an important judgment in principle on Tuesday (January 10). A judgment pronounced in the field of competition law but which could just as easily
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(B2) Barring any last-minute surprises, the Italian Antonio Tajani, of the European People's Party (EPP), should be appointed as the new president of the European Parliament. The Liberals announced their support for the EPP in the first round
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(B2) Create a special commission or commission of inquiry (*) into the terrorist attacks which hit Paris, Brussels and Berlin, such is the intention of the Christian Democrats (EPP) group in the European Parliament. A proposal that was
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(B2 – exclusive) The Council of the EU could endorse, this Wednesday (December 21), a decision on the European Security and Defense College (CESD) which significantly broadens its scope. The College will no longer have
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(B2) Cooperation between the EU and NATO is moving "from the stage of declarations to that of concrete actions", Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, has just affirmed at the end of a first meeting ministers
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(B2) COREPER is the Council's main preparatory body. Bringing together the ambassadors of the Member States to the Union, or permanent representatives (the “PRs” in everyday language), it occupies a central place in the system of
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(B2) The budget of the European Defense Agency will increase slightly next year, rising to 31 million euros in 2017 against 30,5 million euros in 2016. That is an increase of 0,5 million euros (+ 1,6%). THE
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(B2) On Tuesday (25 October), the College of Commissioners approved its lines of work for 2017. The Juncker Commission maintains its policy of legislative sobriety with one principle: few texts but high added value. B2 read
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(B2) The Frenchman Olivier Onidi — who was Deputy Director General for Migration and Asylum — will, on December 1, take up his duties as Deputy Director General for Security at the DG with authority
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(B2) The idea of setting up a European corps of border guards is not new. It dates back to the early 2000s (I). But it took the major migrant and refugee crisis, to
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(B2 in Strasbourg) The hearing of the new British Commissioner, Julian King, by the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) lasted a good three hours on Monday evening (September 12), in one of the rooms of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Read(B2) The Organization for Joint Armaments Cooperation (OCCAR) is an organisation, established by an international treaty at the end of the 1990s (1), outside the European institutions. Its main objective is
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(B2) The action for annulment allows the Court of Justice to review the legality of an act taken by the European Union. The judge verifies that the act in question has indeed been taken in compliance with Community law. There
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(B2 in Luxembourg) An international court, not really like the others, a sort of "Supreme Court of the 'bloc' of the European judicial order... this is how Jean-Claude Bonichot, judge at the Court of Justice of the EU since
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B2 inaugurates this new school year with a series devoted to the Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU. During the summer, we thus met three magistrates, with very different functions, who illustrate the different facets
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(B2) The co-decision procedure, instituted by the Maastricht Treaty, has become the normal, ordinary mode of decision-making at European level. So much so that the Treaty of Lisbon has changed the terminology, speaking of
Read(B2) After the attacks in Madrid, on March 11, 2004, the European Council decided to create a Coordinator for the fight against terrorism, a sort of Mr Anti-terrorist. This post was first occupied by the
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(B2) Created by the Lisbon Treaty, the Standing Committee for Operational Cooperation on Internal Security (COSI) aims to prepare the meetings of the Ministers of Justice and of the Interior on the
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(B2) The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, took a few hours longer than planned (1) to announce the portfolio entrusted to the new British Commissioner, Julian King. But it has
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