Outer world

EU-UK: a special relationship, even after the divorce 

Monday 30 November 2020 | Gérard Vindt
| Alternatives Economiques

In 2019-20, the EU remained by far the largest economic partner of the United Kingdom by all definitions: exports, imports, goods and services. 

Brexit: Can supply disruptions be avoided? 

Wednesday 23 December 2020 | Aude Martin
| Alternatives Economiques

Who exports and who imports? A German economics think tank, the Ifo institute, has looked at the interdependencies between the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Brexit: The dream of British Conservatives is in trouble 

Friday 27 November 2020 | Aude Martin
| Alternatives Economiques

The handful of trade deals that the British government has so far concluded with non-EU countries will not fully compensate for the loss of the European market.

Brexit: EU faces a losing dilemma 

Monday 09 November 2020 | Aude Martin
| Alternatives Economiques

With two months to go before the end of the transition period, the Brexit negotiations between London and Brussels are stuck. Aurélien Antoine, professor of public law at the University of Saint-Etienne and director of the Brexit Observatory, deciphers what is at stake in the coming weeks.

Cyprus: At the centre of the arm-wrestling between Greece and Turkey 

Monday 31 August 2020 | Chloé Emmanouilidis
| Voxeurop

The discovery in the last few years of large gas reserves in the region has whetted appetites in Ankara, which has been forcefully demanding its piece of the pie, even at the risk of contesting the limits of respective economic zones as well as provoking the EU’s intervention and threatening the region’s stability.

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Kosovo, dreaming of a life abroad 

Friday 11 January 2019 | Majlinda Aliu
| OBC Transeuropa

Although Kosovo is still on the "black list" of Schengen, many of its citizens dream of a future abroad. Among the most qualified professional categories, such as doctors, we can already speak of brain drain.

When Europeans seek asylum  in depth

Wednesday 22 August 2018 | Lorenzo Ferrari
| OBC Transeuropa

Every year, almost 100,000 Europeans seek asylum in EU countries, and the number of applications continues to grow. Yet this is a phenomenon which remains at the margins of the debate on asylum – and that on EU enlargement.

More and more school trips to the Balkans 

Tuesday 14 April 2020 | Marco Abram
| OBC Transeuropa

Are the histories of the former Yugoslavia and Albania finally entering Europe’s space of memory? A constantly increasing number of Italian school trips to the region gives us reason to hope so.

The neverending saga of Albania, North Macedonia, and EU accession talks 

Wednesday 16 October 2019 | Ornaldo Gjergji
| OBC Transeuropa

After years of discussions, the EU has not opened negotiations to enlarge to Albania and North Macedonia yet, chiefly because of French opposition. Yet this week's European Council may finally mark a breakthrough for the accession process.

The numbers of the Eu enlargement

Thursday 17 May 2018 | Valentina Vivona
| OBC Transeuropa

The EU-Western Balkans summit, held on May 17 in Sofia, was conceived to restore momentum to the European perspective of the region.