Europe
Between Fragility and Hope
1st Edition
Published on 24. November 2020
198 pages
978-3-7489-0976-7 (ISBN)
Description
In den Jahren, bevor die Covid19-Krise die Welt vor ungekannte Herausforderungen stellte, zeigte sich die EU von zwei Seiten: Einerseits gab sie Anlass zu Hoffnung, hatte sie doch mehrere Krisen gemeistert und stellte sie sich in der Welt als Verteidigerin von Multilateralismus und Festung der Demokratie dar. Andererseits aber blieben Schwächen sichtbar: ihre mangelnde Kohärenz in der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik; ihr unzureichender Einfluss in ihrer Nachbarschaft sowie ihre inneren Widersprüche, was die Wahrung der Rechtsstaatlichkeit unter ihren Mitgliedstaaten anbetrifft. Die hier versammelten Essays bieten einen Rückblick auf zwei Jahre EU-Politik.
Mit Beiträgen von
Laurent Baechler, Anna Dimitrova, Mohamed Ane, Sebastian Franzkowiak, András Inotai, Gabriel N. Toggenburg, Arnaud Leconte, Kyriakos Revelas, Hartmut Marhold, Jean-Claude Vérez, Jean-Marie Rousseau, Susann Heinecke, Florent Marciacq, Tobias Flessenkemper, Magda Stumvoll, Marta-Claudia Cliza, Laura-Cristiana Spataru-Negura, Claude Nigoul, Pinar Selek, Yvan Gastaut.
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Content
- Cover
- Preface
- (1) The EU - Defender of Democratic Values?
- A stronger Europe in an illiberal world?
- The Liberal Order: A Western Construct
- Restorationists, populists, revisionists
- Europe as the saviour of the liberal order?
- Caring for China and the US
- The German Problem and Macron's vision
- References:
- EU values: a fragile and outdated foundation for EU-ropean unity?
- 1. Is it indeed the EU's "main goal" to defend its values as opposed to trade, economic growth and human development?
- 2. Do the EU values really aim at furthering European integration and unity?
- 3. Are the EU values a tool to impose values held by elites against the will of EU populations? Or are they about something else?
- 4. Instead of conclusions: so what is indeed wrong with the EU values?
- References
- How to make the democratic system resilient in the new global environment of the 21st century?
- 1. New developments challenging democracy
- 2. Two key challenges
- 3. Selected policy areas requiring strategic thinking and programmes
- 4. Some policy recommendations
- Resilience and governance of the European Union
- A new European governance beyond Maastricht
- Solidarity: to go beyond the limits of solidarity
- Responsibility: fight against moral hazard
- Establish European independence
- The European Union for greater risk sharing and a no-bailout rule
- Overcoming the virtual and inapplicable Maastricht rules
- Converging in productivity, unemployment and commercial balance
- The European Union for greater risk sharing
- References
- (2) The EU - A Provider of International Security and Cooperation?
- Permanent Structured Cooperation: not a panacea but an important step for consolidating EU security and defence cooperation
- Introduction
- The PESCO framework
- Beyond dilemmas
- The broader picture
- Conclusion
- References
- Europe-Asia Connectivity - A Dramatic Shift in Global Relations
- The general setting
- International Regional Organisations
- Banks
- Projects: The Chinese "Silk Roads" and the European "Connectivity Strategy"
- Comparative Aspects: Asymmetries
- Conclusions: Improvement on the European Side
- Les perspectives des relations Union européenne-Afrique
- Des disparités économiques
- Des partenariats évolutifs
- Des enjeux européens relatifs à la régulation du cannabis
- Des enjeux européens relatifs à la régulation du cannabis
- Panorama des législations internationales hors UE sur le cannabis
- Les législations en Europe sur le cannabis
- Des enjeux pour une politique harmonieuse en Europe
- Les implications en termes de politiques publiques
- Bibliographie
- NATO at Seventy: The Need to Redefine the Transatlantic Bargain
- The good old transatlantic bargain
- "America first", NATO last
- Containing Trump's NATO bashing
- The power asymmetry debate again
- Towards a new transatlantic bargain?
- References
- Quelles perspectives pour la Défense européenne ?
- Could a Greener Economy Lead to a Polluted Planet?
- From "the nature of things" to "the "quietness of mind and soul"
- Wishful thinking of a world infinitely "renewable"...
- Global Climatic Warming versus Cold-Feet Attitude of a Hibernating Europe
- (3) The EU - Which Role in its Neighbourhood?
- Russia and the EU - the helix of alienation
- Introduction: EU-Russia relations in crisis
- Perceptions matter
- Russian attempts to keep the post-Soviet space together
- Securing authoritarian rule
- Polarising Western societies
- Conclusion: Enduring alienation or temporary crisis?
- References
- China's Balkans Silk Road: Does it pave or block the way of the Western Balkans to the European Union?
- China's rising interest for the Western Balkans
- Chinese investments in the Western Balkans
- How much do the Western Balkans benefit from Chinese investments?
- Outlook
- References
- Where to now for Enlargement? Key Challenges to Western Balkans' accession into a Brexiting European Union
- Abstract
- No magic formula in politics
- The Western Balkans have become more inextricably linked with the EU than ever
- but they are still not catching up
- The European Union certainly remains committed. but to what exactly?
- Conclusion: squaring circles. or waiting for circles to be squared?
- References
- La question des frontières en Europe Frontières en Europe, frontières de l'Europe
- L'Europe, un continent géographiquement situé ?
- La fin des frontières entre Européens ?
- Renforcer les frontières externes
- Le mur comme seul horizon ?
- France and Central Asia - Time for a new vision?
- Political and security relations - between bilateral and multilateral formats
- Cultural and educational projects in a difficult surrounding
- High economic potentials, but.
- Promising opportunities in a region in transition
- References
- (4) Internal Challenges
- La crise de la zone euro est-elle derrière nous ?
- Germany's New Instability
- A look back: Political Parties in the "Bundestag" since 1949
- Coalition governments, the rule in (West-) German history
- 2017, a turning point: Indications of a "new German instability"
- The underlying social reality: 'splits and spreads' in society
- References
- Règlement Général de l'Union européenne sur la Protection des Données : tout le monde est-il prêt ?
- Le déclin démographique de l'Europe à l'horizon 2050 puis 2100
- Frontière franco-italienne : criminalisation des femmes en mobilité
- Migration féminine dans Alpes-Maritimes : multiplicité et clandestinité
- Les indésirables ou esclaves modernes, en Europe
- Bibliographie
