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A View from Central Europe: Germany and V4 moving further apart?
Our Research fellow Michal Vít was among the three experts that commented some newly essential questions in the first blog of a reshaped ‘A View from Central Europe’ series, published by the Central European Policy Institute (CEPI).

Big Deal about no Big Deal
New blog from our research fellow Zuzana Picková about changes to British membership in the EU negotiated by David Cameron to avoid Brexit.

EU has a role to play in the Syria Peace Talks II.
Matthieu Crévecoeur continues to analyse the current situation in the Middle East with connection to the suspended peace talks in Genève. He underlines the importance of solidarity and courage which should be demonstrated by the EU in order to make the peace talks successful.

EU has a role to play in the suspended UN Syria Peace Talks I.
After the suspension of UN Syria Peace Talks with the Syrian government and opposition in Geneva, read what Matthieu Crévecoeur thinks about such a development and its significance for both the role of the EU in the Peace Talks and the Union's need to understand better the regional dynamics.

Britain in Europe Renegotiation Scorecard
Director of EUROPEUM, Vladimír Bartovic, contributed as a national researcher for the Czech Republic to a special report on EU member states' attitudes towards Britain's EU reform agenda, which was compiled by the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Diverging Voices, Converging Policies: The Visegrad States’ Reactions to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy is one of the authors of the document commissioned by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung offices in Prague and Warsaw about the differing reactions of individual Visegrad countries on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

V4 Trust – the Czech Presidency of the Visegrad Group (2015-2016)
EUROPEUM's director Vladimír Bartovic is one of the co-authors of a mid-term paper evaluating the Czech V4 presidency.

Regulating party finances in Ukraine: lessons from the Czech Republic
Policy paper by Oleksii Sydorchuk focuses on the issue of political party finances in Ukraine. The paper uses the Czech Republic as a model country to demonstrate upsides and downsides of public financing.

Some valuable lessons from U.S. politics?
Although the Europeans might see the U.S. presidential elections as rather bizarre, it currently presents similar trends to those in Europe. The phenomenon of “antisystem” candidates can now be found on both sides of the Atlantic. Read what Martin Michelot thinks about this development.

EU enlargement to the Western Balkans: Out of sight, out of mind?
Does the EU and the Commission in particular possess appropriate tools to deal with the ‘complicated’ candidate countries in a complex international reality? Marko Stojić in his new policy paper tackles the question with a comparative analysis of six Western Balkan (potential) candidates for EU membership, based on the qualitative analysis of the EU’s most recent and updated enlargement documents.

2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report
EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy ranked as 9th top think tank in Central and Eastern Europe.

European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2016
Our Director Vladimír Bartovic was one of the Central European contributing researchers to the European Foreign Policy Scorecard, issued by the European Council on Foreign Relations.