Wilfried Martens Centre For European Studies: 34 books
Opening the Door?
Immigration and Integration in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Migration into the EU and the integration of immigrants are matters that will be decisive for the future of Europe. Debates on these issues have been taking place at all levels within European society and government. These debates have also been held within the centre-right European People's Party...
Exposing the Demagogues
Right-wing and National Populist Parties in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Europe’s right-wing and national populist parties are on the upswing, even despite some recent electoral setbacks. They have entered parliaments across Europe and some parties are even participating in national governments. What is remarkable is that right-wing and national populist parties have...
Dealing with a Rising Power
Turkey's Transformation and its Implications for the EU
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Turkey’s growing assertiveness on the international stage, difficulties with EU accession, rapidly rising economy, and the long and controversial reign of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) are all necessitating a need for analysis. The present study of the Centre for European Studies presents...
Active Ageing
Solidarity and Responsibility in an Ageing Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Current demographic changes are a major factor in the increasing societal interest in the contributions older generations can make to the development and cohesion of society. This Centre for European Studies study argues that the traditional view of ageing is gradually being replaced by a new perspective,...
European Integration of Western Balkans
From Reconciliation to European Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
While most of Europe decided to unite in the 20th and 21st century, a country in the Balkans split into seven independent states. The efforts of these states to join the European Union and the reconciliation initiatives between the countries are detailed in this research paper. Despite the efforts...
The Next Multiannual Financial Framework
From National Interest to Building a Common Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is the budget of the European Union and the most important tool to finance common policy areas, actions and strategies. Upon a proposal from the European Commission, it has to be approved by the majority of the members of the European Parliament, before it...
European Political Parties as Campaign Organisations
as Campaign Organisations: Towards a Greater Politicization of the European Parliament Elections
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This paper looks at the origins and development of the European political parties, describes the campaign strategies in the recent European elections, analyses the results and implications of Europarties’ campaign involvement and outlines challenges and prospects for the future.
Members of the European Parliament Online
The Use of Social Media in Political Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The appearance of political marketing and campaigning on social media is a relatively new phenomenon, whose major advantages are seen in the rapid transportation of information through the Internet and the possibilities for large numbers of people to connect. This is especially significant for politics...
A Thorn in the Side of European Elites
The New Euroscepticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
The European project has recently reached a critical point, where a discussion on the fundamental objectives of the European Union has entered public debate. There are considerable concerns about a new Euroscepticism arising in response to recent developments, especially the Eurozone crisis, and a...
Old Ghosts in New Sheets
European Populist Parties and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
This research paper analyses the foreign policy positions of five populist parties of the Right and Left in Western Europe. It focuses on foreign policy, an often ignored dimension of their ideas. It aims to fill a hole in policy debates by showing that European populism poses a coherent threat to...
by Hans Geeroms, Pawel Karbownik
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This paper argues that a fully-fledged banking union is needed to stabilise the euro and to prevent a decade of high unemployment and low growth in the Vulnerable Euro Area Periphery Countries (VEAPs). What has been agreed by the European Council and the European Parliament in March 2014 is a step...
A Higher Education for the Twenty-first Century
European and US approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Europeans and Americans have a lot to learn from one another when it comes to higher education. The US offers a wider and more diversified range of choice in higher education, and more Americans than Europeans attend higher education institutions. Conversely, European universities are more intellectually...
by Rumiana Jeleva
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Like elsewhere in Europe, the crisis has affected economic developments in the Western Balkans, from Croatia in the north to Albania in the south. The countries in the region face difficulties such as high unemployment, decreased availability of bank credit and reduced trade. Furthermore, the inability...
Breaking Down the Walls
Improving EU-NATO Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Europe needs to use the strengths of both the EU and NATO to effectively respond to the ever more diverse threats that require collective efforts. This is the only way through which European security can be guaranteed in the face of struggles with limited resources and decreasing defence funding,...