The ongoing diplomatic incident in the Ceuta’s enclave is a genuine stress test for the migration policy of the European Union. The management of the EU-Morocco –or yet Spain-Morocco- border relies on an externalised principle which consists in the management by an external third state of migration and surveillance of the said border. Last week, Morocco allowed some 9,000 migrants …

Since 2014 a difficult relationship between the European Union and the Russian Federation turned sour over the fate of Ukraine. With the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula hosting the bulge of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the support given to separatist militias in the far Eastern parts of Ukraine in the Donbas region, Moscow had shown its resolve to …

Ukraine’s geopolitical location between the EU and the Russian Federation bordering on the Black Sea and the Caspian region and its richness in energy resources, especially in natural gas reserves as well as a large potential for hydro and biomass energy, make it an attractive partner for Europe. Current developments on the front of the Ukrainian government’s fight against corruption …

The social field constitutes the nemesis of the European Union since its creation. As the preserve of the member states, the EU is struggling to implement a real social policy. Being above all an economic union based on a single market and freedom of movement, a paradox soon appears. Indeed, this is very difficult to imagine the organisation of a …

The European Commission has recently put forward two proposals that would lead to ground-breaking legislation on the so-called “Big Tech”. On the one hand, the first proposal that European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager made was the Digital Services Act (DSA), which will target how these big companies operate, in other words, the European Union plans to use the DSA to …

 By Alvaro Perez Cardenes, The European Institute for International Law and International Relations. The Covid-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented crisis in our lifetimes. Governments have had to place strict lockdowns, where non-essential shops have been closed; curfews have been set and even like in the case of Spain, and the population have had to endure several months of confinement, where …

 By Alvaro Perez Cardenes, The European Institute for International Law and International Relations. Expanding the number of member states, which conform the European Union has been one of its main focuses since its inception, as it went from six members in 1951 when the Treaty of Paris was signed to 27 members that are currently in after the recent exit of …

The globalization is a process that began in the early eighteenth century, the Enlightenment one. It’s surely not the first opening of the national markets worldwide wave we knew. Indeed, we could begin to speak about globalization since the day when the European ships started to travel around the world: it’s an ancient process that knows some acceleration through time. …

How can the EU better handle irregular migration? Illegal immigration has been out of the EU´s toughest problems to handle recently, especially during the migration crisis of 2015, where more than 1 million migrants and asylum seekers from countries like Syria, Iraq or Pakistan arrived in the EU caused by events like the Syrian civil war. Irregular migration is caused …

Seven skiers, two climbers and a guide have died in five separate incidents after bad weather swept through the Alps region on Sunday.Five skiing victims, from France, Italy and Germany, were among a group of 14 who failed to reach a mountain cabin. Police confirmed two French skiers had died in separate incidents in the French Alps. An alarm had …