Tag: integration

The next EU step for Poland should be joining the eurozone within three to five years. It would be dangerous for the EU if Poland does not take that step, says Aleksander Kwaśniewski.

In the present agenda of cooperation between the EU and Ukraine, it makes no sense to discuss visa liberalisation, argues Viktor Tkachuk.

A conservative ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel faced widespread condemnation on Monday for making critical remarks about Muslim immigrants and saying there was no room in Germany for more people from "alien cultures".

The polarisation of political debate following the expulsions of Roma from France has produced two separate resolutions in the European Parliament, which will be put to a vote today (9 September). One of them condemns Paris, although attributing blame would trigger no sanctions.

Presented as a way of enhancing the integration of young immigrants, the scheme was strongly criticised in Italy for being potentially discriminatory. Meanwhile, the EU's newly-adopted Immigration Pact came under fire for lacking clear guidelines on integration.

The Reform Treaty is a "relatively small step" in the EU’s institutional development, marking "neither a major development" nor a "substantial change of direction" in that process, writes Brendan Donnelly of the Federal Union.

It is only by facing reality and properly taking the European Muslim dimension into consideration that a clash of civilisations may be avoided, claim the authors of a study carried out for the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.

Speaking at a conference on the future of European integration, Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen called for more effective and democratic institutions.

The Commission has fleshed out what 'absorption capacity' actually means for future EU-applicant countries.

Southeast Asian trade ministers have agreed to an accelerated timetable to turn their region into a European-style single market by 2015.

This issue of "EU-25 Watch" addresses key issues and challenges to European integration.  The internet study was published by Barbara Lippert and Timo Goosmann of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP)  in Berlin within the framework of EU-CONSENT a "Network of Excellence". It  sheds light on key issues like the "Lisbon process" or the "role of the EU in the World".  The analysis is based on reports by institutes from all 25 EU members states as well as from the four acceeding/ candidate countries Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and Turkey.

With the Netherlands currently hit by a wave of anti-Muslim feeling, the Dutch Presidency has held a conference pushing for a European framework for the integration of immigrants. The Commission presented a "European handbook on integration" at the conference.

At a policy debate, JHA Commissioner Antonio Vitorino and experts explained what would be the added value of an EU framework for integrating migrants into host societies.

This report argues that Europe must tackle root causes of terrorism actively. It examines the path to ensure the security of the Union against terrorism while guaranteeing the rights and civil liberties of Europe's law-abiding Muslim population.

A new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) warns that EU candidate countries are rapidly adopting the EU's unsustainable transport patterns. A growing level of total transport traffic is largely being driven by an increase in road transport.

Commissioner Wallström looks at new ways of working in field of environment policy in speech to Centre for European Reform