The war in the Caucasus is over, we must now build peace. Three months after the cease-fire, Azerbaijan is worjing both on a normalization of its relations with Armenia beyond a treaty, but also a reconstruction of Karabakh and the possibility of allowing the hundreds thousands of refugees in the country to return to their […]

          By Sébastien BOUSSOIS Doctor in political science, Middle East researcher Euro-Arab relations/ terrorism and radicalisation, teacher in international relations, scientific collaborator of CECID (Université Libre de Bruxelles), OMAN (UQAM Montréal) and SAVE BELGIUM (Society Against Violent Extremism)     It is above all a tragic human story. A story of about […]

Introduce EUROCITIES: members, areas of expertise? Eurocities wants to make cities places where everyone can enjoy a good quality of life, is able to move around safely, access quality and inclusive public services and benefit from a healthy environment. We do this by networking almost 200 larger European cities, which together represent some 130 million […]

  To indict the French fighters who left to defend the colors of the Armenian flag and hundreds of border police checks. Since the start of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia on September 27, 2020, for Azerbaijan to recover Nagorno-Karabakh, after thirty years of fruitless negotiations under the aegis of the Minsk Group and […]

The ECB Governing Council took the latest monetary policy decisions three weeks ago. On October twenty nine. The Governing Council decided to keep its accommodative monetary policies unchanged and indicated the following. In the current environment of risks clearly tilted to the downside, the Governing Council will carefully assess the incoming information, including the dynamics […]

What is offshore renewable energy? Offshore renewable energy can come from a diversity of abundant, natural and clean sources. The technologies to exploit them are at different stages of development. • Offshore bottom-fixed wind is already advanced, with 12 GW installed today in EU waters. • Floating offshore wind has an installed capacity of 40MW and some Member […]

To help meet the EU’s goal of climate neutrality by 2050, the European Commission today presents the EU Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy. The Strategy proposes to increase Europe’s offshore wind capacity from its current level of 12 GW to at least 60 GW by 2030 and to 300 GW by 2050. The Commission aims to complement this with 40 GW of […]

As Europe faces rising numbers of Covid-19 cases, what lessons have been learnt from the first wave? The Covid crisis is an unprecedented challenge for our societies. We know that we will need a vaccine, but we also know that it will take time. We have learnt from the first wave that coordination is key. […]

With a deal reached on the EU’s 2021-2027 budget, recovery funds should get flowing as soon as possible, said budgets committee chair Johan Van Overtveldt. Van Overtveldt (ECR, Belgium) described the agreement reached with the Council on the EU’s long-term budget as “rather successful” and “a positive thing”. However, he explained there are still hurdles to be overcome before the […]