The European Union disburses more than 7 billion euro a year for research. However, funding programmes and application procedures are also very complex and demanding. In this two-part article, I will discuss several related issues.
Continue Reading...German Christian democrat Günther Oettinger might not be a bad choice to fill the role of a European Commissioner. What is unsettling about Oettinger’s nomination lies not in his person, but in the way the German political sphere has handled it.
Continue Reading...Nicht weniger als eine innovative Grundlage für die Medienregulierung erwartete die Europäische Kommission von ihrem “Media Pluralism Monitor”. Das Ziel der Übung besteht darin, einen EU-weit einheitlichen Maßstab für das Konzept des Medienpluralismus zu entwickeln.
Continue Reading...Campus spirit combined with freedom of science and public exposure of the resulting knowledge, together with a communication culture that actually further develops the very notion of innovation instead of going for mere research PR – that would be a great achievement at European level.
Continue Reading...It seems that the ambitious project of a centralised European Institute of Technology and Innovation has been politically watered down to a major networking effort.
Continue Reading...The final piece of this three-part analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), a special programme for countries outside but geographically or otherwise close to the European Union, looks at power issues and the challenges of practically implementing it.
Continue Reading...In the second instalment of this three-part series, I continue my analysis of the challenges of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), one of the more recent and still emerging policy initiatives of the European Union.
Continue Reading...The current European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) of the European Union can still be considered as an emergent policy area in the early stages of development. In the first of a three-part series, I would like to highlight what I perceive as the main incommensurabilities, or internal contradictions, of the ENP.
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