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On Turkey’s EU membership: sweet dream or harsh reality?

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Fifty-two years have passed since the Ankara Agreement was signed in 1963, aiming at facilitating Turkey’s acession to the European Economic Community (EEC);Twenty-eight years have passed since 1987, when Turkey advanced its candidature for the membership of the then EEC, and ten years since the launching of the EU accession negotiations. However, according to the 2015 […]

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Breaking isolation: the Baltic States diversifying their energy supply

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The Baltic States have often been described as an “Energy island” because of their isolation from European energy networks. Until very recently, the three states were, together with Finland, 100 % dependent on gas imports from Russia as can be seen in the table below. Figure 1: Gas supplied by Russia as percentage of the

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Estonia – The little country leading the way in Cyber Security

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In 2007 Estonia became the first country to experience a large scale campaign of state-sponsored online attacks from Russia. Now, several years later, the country is the leading promoter of various cyber security initiatives at home and abroad. The cyber-attack on Estonia was more disruptive than harmful since the series of denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks caused

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Baltic State economies in the eurozone – an international crisis comparison

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman –who on various occasions predicted the collapse of the euro– wrote a brief blog entry towards the end of 2010, in which he compared the state of the Irish economy to that of the state of Nevada in the USA. Krugman noted that the populations, size of housing bubbles, and

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Sleepwalking to Brexit? Challenges facing the ‘In’ campaign in Britain’s forthcoming referendum on EU membership

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Last week’s launch of Britain’s cross-party pro-EU campaign group provided the first indications of its future strategy and approach.  In a bid to emphasise the myriad benefits of continued membership, ‘Britain Stronger in Europe’ had assembled a diverse array of public figures, ranging from West Ham Football Club Vice-Chairman, Karren Brady, (also of BBC TV’s

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