Geopolitics of the EU n.4 In a matter of days the Brexit saga will finally come to an end. It’s been more than four years since the British people voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, a fierce divorce which cost the job to two prime ministers and triggered elections every two years instead of the usual five. As of now the two parties are still struggling to find a deal which satisfies both of them, fishery seems to be the sticking point in the negotiation

On the 9th of December, the European Medicines Agency released a statement: it was hacked. This made it to the news since the agency is currently enjoying a higher level of public interest as Europe is impatiently awaiting the results of the certification of the COVID-19 vaccine. But as quickly as the reports on the stolen certification process have arisen, they disappeared, and with them the demands for an appropriate response. In recent years, this has become a recurring pa

These past days and weeks we heard a lot about the Union’s long term budget and the conditionality of its approval based upon the rule of law, that provoked the blockade of the bloc’s €1.8 trillion package since the vote of veto by Hungary and Poland (as we discussed here on our blog). But finally a compromise was reached during the last meeting of the European Council on 10-11 December. “Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, Angela Merkel - Brussels, Belgium - 11/12/2020 - b

The EU-Mercosur trade-deal has been on the table for the last 20 years. It is an agreement with trade as its centrepiece, but which should be built on moral values and sustainable development. The negotiations ended on June 18th, 2019 but the agreement still hasn’t come into effect because of environmental concerns. This deal involves 31 countries, 780 million people, a total GDP of 20.5 trillion € and Jean-Claude Juncker -former President of the European Commission- expects