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18
Apr

Launch of China-EU People-to-People Dialogue

On 18 April CII Asian Programme director Pawel Bienkowski took part in the China-EU High Level People-to-People Dialogue Forum in Brussels. An event, attended by EU Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou and Chinese State Councillor Liu Yandong marked launching of a comprehensive scheme for educational and cultural exchange between the citizens of the EU and China.

31
Mar

EU-China Youth Policy Dialogue in Brussels

To see Anita Sęk's commentary on the latest EU-China Youth Policy Dialogue on Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Youth Policy and Education held in Brussels from 18 to 23 March, Tags:

19
Mar

EU-China Youth gathers in Brussels

Centre for International Initiatives' President, Anita Sęk, is taking part in the EU-China Youth Policy Dialogue on Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Youth Policy and Education in Brussels, from 18 to 23 March. Once again, the CII is actively involved in the leading project for EU-China youth discussion and exchange.

Recent publications

Fragile Leadership? Evaluating the coherence of the European Union in global governance of the Genetically Modified Organisms

ANITA SEK

Within the area of biotechnology-policy-regulation, the European Union (EU) has acquired a form of beyond-technocracy regime. Having become highly politicized in 1990s., the issue has been causing difficulties in constructing Union’s coherence. Aside general successful presence in global environmental governance, this essay assesses EU’s leadership in international regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms’ (GMO) as fragile. The author’s aim is to analyse this fragility through Carmen Gebhard’s coherence typology interlinked with other authors’ proposals.

EU-Ukraine DCFTA Negotiations. It is more than the Economics!

ANITA SĘK

The European Union (EU) – Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) negotiations’ reasoning and handling is the object of this paper. It will be analysed through the logic of Robert Putnam’s ‘game’, adapted by Alasdair Young and Sarah Collinson to EU’s environment as the ‘double-two-level’ or ‘three-level’ ‘multi-issue’ game.

Global actor ‘in statu nascendi’? Impact of European External Action Service on Diplomatic Actorness of the European Union

ANITA SĘK

Diplomacy of the European Union (EU) might be analysed on three different levels: 1. domestic Member States’ (MSs) diplomacy, 2. European institutions’ ‘metadiplomacy’ and 3. EU external relations. In this essay I will focus on the latter, presenting legal and political impacts of European External Action Service’s (EEAS) shortcomings on EU’s diplomatic actorness.