The economic aspect of the EU’s relations with Eastern Partnership countries and the Maghreb, a brief comparison

Adam Balcer

The Eastern Partnership countries are integrated with the EU to a much smaller extent than the Maghreb. The European Union's position in the Eastern Partnership area is similar to the situation in the Machrek countries (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Israel and Lebanon). The implementation of the Eastern Partnership modernisation agenda, which provides for the Eastern European neighbours' convergence with the EU, will be impossible without increasing the EU's economic engagement in this region.

The article was originally published in: "Russia and the EU Eastern Partnership: a challenge or cooperation platform?" ISBN 978-5-93356-097-5 St.Petersburg, 2010
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EU - Russia: it is not the question of reset

Paweł Świeboda
 
Another EU – Russia summit is approaching in what is seen atmospherically as the best context for years. For a few months now, Russia has projected a different image in its foreign policy and began acting as a responsible international actor, at least in some areas. President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin are on a charm offensive around and beyond Europe, courting less the Venezuelan and Cuban leaders and rubbing shoulders more with the Poles, the Norwegians or the Turks.
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The Cypriot Gordian Knot

Policy Paper

Adam Balcer

The victory of Dervish Eroglu, often refereed to as “the hawk”, in the presidential elections of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus puts the island's reunification talks into question and could undermine Turkey's chases of EU accession. The threat of a permanent deadlock could ultimately force a revision of EU policy towards Northern Cyprus and thus contribute to an acceleration of Turkey-EU negotiations. In order for this to take place, the European Parliament should use its new foreign policy powers, acquired under the Lisbon Treaty
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Turning Gaps into Niches. For a new innovation paradigm in Central Europe.

Paweł Zerka (ed.)

Innovation has become one of the words of the moment in the European politics. However, the countries of Central Europe, which are still lagging behind Western Europe in their innovative performance, are not very active in the current debates. Given the trasformation of the global economic order as well as ongoing works on European initiatives (e.g. Research & Innovation Plan), Central Europe should start treating innovation seriously. Not only because without innovation we will not be able to maintain our  current rate of growth in the long run, but also because we have to adapt to a new European landscape, with the development of the European Research Area and introduction of the Community Patent in the coming years. What exactly should the countries of Central Europe do? In a new report by demosEUROPA-Centre for European Strategy and Ernst&Young "Better Government" programme we explain what the change in their 'innovation paradigm' should consist in.
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How to efficiently implement CCS in Poland? Financial framework

Edited by Agata Hinc

The report argues that we stand at the threshold of a transformation to a global economy, an economy that will meet the social, economic and political challenges which have been identified as the main threats to the global order in the 21st century. Its elements will make us re-think and re-establish the way we produce and distribute energy and new solutions will have to be found to ensure both sustainable development and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. As it is possible to imagine substantial CO2 emissions reduction without nuclear energy, it is also impossible to do so without Carbon Capture and Storage. Economic analysis shows that successful roll-out of this technology will require active support from governments and international organizations.
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Heading for the Strategic Partnership EU-Turkey in the Foreign Policy

Adam Balcer

Strategic partnership between the European Union and Turkey would significantly increase the effectiveness of the Common Foreign and Security Policy - says Adam Balcer, Senior Fellow and "EU enlargement and neighborhood" Project Leader, in the most recent report published by demosEUROPA-Center for European Strategy. Thanks to such a partnership, the process of Turkish accession into the EU would not lose its momentum. Why then the EU has not yet engaged in a strategic cooperation with Turkey?
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How to efficiently implement CCS in Poland?

Agata Hinc

In the coming decades the world will still depend on fossil fuels. This is why, in order to quickly reduce CO2 emissions, we will have to make use of clean coal technologies. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will have a key role to play here. In the opinion of the International Energy Agency, CCS can in the long run bring up to a 100% reduction of the CO2 produced during the coal burning process in power plants. The report puts forward several reccommendations for a safe and efficient implementation of CCS in Poland.
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