Multiple governments, most notably the EU, have called for changes and reforms to the current approach towards safeguarding foreign investments. However, the absence of a common agreement among experts and social activists on how the replacement should look like means the so desired reforms are lagging behind. Besides, having received no support from major geopolitical […]
The 27th of January Edward Lucas, senior editor at The Economist, visited the College of Europe to deliver a lecture on the current state of media and on journalism. After sharing his experience with the students and answering their questions, he agreed to sit with us for a short interview in which we talked about
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The College of Europe at Natolin is always festooned with flags. Yet there is a flag, very familiar to me in my previous life, which I seem never to see here. It is the flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It hung in pride of place in my old university common room. In
The Bug/Буг river constitutes part of the border between Poland and Ukraine. This tranquil, serenely beautiful river flows down towards the Vistula and separates two states which have a long history of interaction of all sorts. For centuries Poland and Ukraine have shared a common history of friendship and war, stood against each other and
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Soviet Roots The economic development model of the Soviet Union, with its shortcomings too numerous to count, was certainly one of the major causes of its fall.Yet there is one thing it succeeded in doing: the economies of the Soviet republics were built to be complementary and integrated.[1] One could not function in autarky. Parts
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The 24th of November, Herman Van Rompuy, former conservative Prime minister of Belgium and very first President of the European Council, visited the College of Europe in Natolin to deliver a lecture on the challenges facing the European Union. After sharing his experience with the students and answering their questions, he agreed to sit with
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