Europe's World <Dominique.Ostyn@europesworld.org> 02/07/2010 10:43 Please respond to Dominique.Ostyn@europesworld.org To Pat Haran <pat.haran@oireachtas.ie> cc bcc Subject Europe's World - Newsletter 2 July 2010 - John Roberts on Why the Mediterranean Union already needs an overhaul If this message is illegible or incomplete, click here or type this link in the address bar of your browser : http://www.flexmail.be/r/37002b8ead65393931313839313d2337353333 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER - Friday 2 July 2010 Sponsored by Dear Pat Haran, EW ARTICLE OF THE WEEK EUROPE’S CASPIAN POLICY TO BE KEY TO ENERGY SECURITY John Roberts, Energy Security Specialist with Platts, the world’s leading independent source of energy information READ & COMMENT ON THIS ARTICLE The EU's ability to harness its economic muscle and its infant "external action" diplomatic service will be crucially important to securing long-term gas supplies from the Caspian region. John Roberts explores the issues on which Brussels must take a lead. RELATED ARTICLES Energy security: The steps Europe now needs to take by Jonathan S. Gillman, Energy Analyst at Washington Policy & Analysis, and William F. Martin, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy and Co-Founder of the Robinson-Martin Security Scholars Programme at the Prague Securities Studies Institute (PSSI) IN THE NEW SUMMER 2010 (#15) ISSUE Global governancE Pedro Solbes | Richard Youngs Crisis busting Jean-Paul Fitoussi | Avinash Persaud | Elie Cohen Nuclear threat Klaus Naumann UK's EU policy William Hague Saving the MDGs Philippe Douste-Blazy | Antonio Vigilante Mediterranean Union Samir Aïta | Roberto Aliboni China Jonathan Story | May-Britt Stumbaum Newcomers' woes Pavel Telicka | Pawel Swieboda EU-Russia Janusz Onyszkiewicz | Vagif Guseynov | Stephen Szabo > Go to the full Table of Contents of Summer 2010 issue THINK TANK EUROPE Over 150 think tanks and universities across Europe contribute authors and ideas to Europe's World. This section on our website showcases their own publications and reports and is also a bulletin board for their upcoming events Adding the Union to Russian-European Relations Carnegie Moscow Center (Russian Federation) Shale Fever: Replicating the US gas revolution in the EU? Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS - Belgium) Reviewing the Role of the Oireachtas in European Affairs Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA - Ireland) Achieving a transition away from CAP direct payments Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP - Belgium) A New Page on Serbian-Croatian Bilateral Relations and the Danube Border Dispute Hellenic Centre for European Studies (EKEM - Greece) Back to Earth: Nuclear Weapons in the 2010s Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos (Spain) Restarting Negotiations for the Reform of the Security Council Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI - Italy) Russia's Vision of Relations with the European Union Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) Financing the Common Agricultural Policy: Which member states pay for the waste of public money? European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE - Belgium) Portugal and Angola: Ties that bind? Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS) China and the South China Sea: Two Faces of Power in the Rising China’s Neighborhood Policy Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS - Denmark) The European External Action Service: towards a common diplomacy? Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) More EW IDEAS COMMUNITY What do YOU think are the key policy problems that Europe must resolve? What ideas need a Europe-wide airing? This new section on our website is open to your contributions Islam as a Western Tradition: Secularism And Liberal Thought In The Arab And Islamic World by Hichem Karoui, Columnist, The Gulf Today European Economic Government and Fiscal Sovereignty by Guido Montani, Professor of International Political Economy at the Universita di Pavia and Vice-President of the Union of European Federalists (UEF) Still Many Stumbling Blocks on Russia’s Path Towards WTO Membership by Richard Rousseau, Associate Professor, University of Georgia Galbraith and the crisis as opportunity by Daniel Ruiz de Garibay, PhD student at the University of Reading French Asterix resists austerity in word only by Paul Taylor, European Policy Columnist, Thomson Reuters EU-China Green Competition: The Way Forward for Climate Change? by Duncan Freeman, Research fellow at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies More - Join - Contribute Published with the support of Europe's World Journal Full table of contents #15 FOLLOW EUROPE'S WORLD WHAT THE CHIEFS SAY A reality check on market discipline Mark Cliffe, Chief Economist, ING What the Chiefs Say is a public affairs platform designed for senior executives from leading organisations to voice their expectations and concerns. 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