EU

Our senior associate research fellow Tereza Novotná wrote an article about the EU policy towards North Korea.

Our Zuzana Stuchlíková commented on key points of hundred days plan of European Commission for the Czech News Agency (ČTK). The article was later also published by other media outlets.

EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy invites you to a discussion on "What EU do we want in 2025? Green policy and decarbonization", which will take place on Wednesday, 18 March 2020, from 18:00 to 19:30 at the European House (Jungmannova 24)

Greece should get 700 million EUR as a financial aid for securing the border. Christian Kvorning Lassen, research fellow from EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, was answering the question of RTVS: "Is European Union better with securing the borders now or five years ago?"

Kateřina Davidová, research fellow from EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, was talking about Europe on the way to zero-emission transport. Who will lag behind?

Our intern Natálie Češková explores, in her latest blog, the question of "Convergence of the EU and Turkey are at freezing point – causes and consequence?".

Aktuálně.cz cited work of our researcher Vít Havelka in its article about the attitude of Czech Prime Minister Babiš towards EU budget.

Countries of European Union couldn't come up with the new EU's budget even after two days of negotiations. Even after changes in the first draft, representatives of 27 countries didn't agree on the final form of EU's budget, for years 2021–2027. Director of our institute commented on this issue in the interview for the ČT24.

The first day of the extraordinary European Union summit on the shape of the next budget did not bring any agreement. The leaders of the member states came to Brussels with so different demands that it was not even expected. Negotiation continues and may even continue until this weekend. Our director Vladimír Bartovic commented on the summit in an interview.

We would like to cordially invite you to an event organized by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy and the Embassy of North Macedonia in Prague. The event will start with a keynote speach by H.E. Nikola Dimitrov: "EU's unfulfilled promise in the Western Balkans - time for strategic resolve during the Croatia's EU presidency", followed by a panel discussion: "Reviving the EU Enlargement agenda: 2020 as a new opportunity for the Western Balkans".

Representatives of the Member States of the European Union meet on Thursday, February 20 at the Brussels Summit. The main topic of the negotiations is the discussions on the shape of the future common budget of the Union for the years 2021 to 2027. According to the information to date, there is no consensus between countries on the amount of money the budget will contain or exactly what the money will be used for. Comments on the summit by our director Vladimír Bartovic.

Vít Havelka, research fellow from EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, was talking about the new Charles Michel's (President of the European Council) budget proposal for European Union for years 2021–2027.