Kategória: Decision making

Some thoughts about the plans of the president of the European Council…

Charles Michel, the president of the European Council has addressed the participants of the prestigious Bled Strategic Forum. He is responsible for close cooperation with heads of states and governments of the EU member states, thus his ideas are worthy of attention as those presumably well-founded and formulated while understanding the positions of these leaders and their respective states.

I have prepared a short analysis of his speech to the C4EP Website (later to be included in its C4EPIECE Newsletter), trying to draw conclusions about the reality of those ideas and the possibility of implementing those during the time left of Michel’s term, ending in 2025.

Read it here!

Veto power – not the tool we love, but the tool we need?

The issue of the veto power has recently come to the forefront of attention and debate both on global and European level. This usually happens when current political events draw attention to something. Today this is related to the Russian aggression against Ukraine (reviving the debate earlier related to other issues): among the debates within the European Union, its operation and future, the question of the right of veto belonging to individual member states had already featured prominently in the decision-making process of the EU, but the need for unanimity with regard to sanctions against Russia gives it a special relevance.

I have prepared an analysis on the subject to the C4EP website, later to be included in its C4EPIECE Newsletter.

Read it here!