Read the first draft of the synthesis report “An EU ‘Fit for Purpose’ in the global age – An interdisciplinary, cross party investigation of policy options for the European Union post-2009, presented at the panel debate at LSE on Monday, March 9^th 2009, with the participation of the UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David Miliband, the Irish Minister for European Affairs, Dick Roche, the Dutch Minister for European Affairs, Frans Timmermans and the President of ELIAMEP, Loukas Tsoukalis.

It is frequently mentioned that Russia’s relations with the European Union (EU) are those “of strategic partners”. They share a common European civilization and common values. The practical significance of this phrase though is ambiguous, as there is no common meaning inside and outside the EU.

On 6 March 2009, ELIAMEP organized a lecture delivered by Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov, Permanent Representative of Russia to the European Union. Ambassador Chizhov elaborated on the significance of the strategic relationship between Russia and the EU, by analyzing current and future challenges that this relationship may face. [More..]

Participation of Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Stavros Costopoulos Fellow at ELIAMEP, in a meeting of the Venusberg Group, which in March 2009 commenced a new project aiming to produce a European Briefing Book on Security and Defence for the next European Parliament (2009-2014). The goal of this project conducted by the Bertelsmann Foundation is to nurture the debate about how the newly elected EP can contribute even stronger to the shaping and implementation of the EU’s foreign, security and defence policy. [More..]

In ELIAMEP Thesis 2/2009 Jens Bastian, Senior Economic Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, argues that the economic outlook for the region of southeast Europe darkens as the global crisis deepens. The crisis resistance of countries in the region has not been tested before on such a scale. [More..]

Read the paper presented by George Pagoulatos “What role for the EU in the regulation of financial capitalism?“.

During the course of 2008, the RAND Corporation and the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Venusberg Group, which includes Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Stavros Costopoulos Fellow at ELIAMEP, cooperated on a series of U.S.-European discussions examining future security challenges confronting the United States and Europe. [More..]

Scientific Coordinator:  Dr. Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy

National Experts

Professor Thomas Hoeren (Hoeren@uni-muenster.de), Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law (ITM), University of Muenster

Ms Christine Altemark (ine_altemark@gmx.de), Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law (ITM), University of Muenster

Dr Giuseppe Mazziotti (giuseppe.mazziotti@gmail.com), University of Copenhagen

Ms Simona Florio (simonaflorio@yahoo.it), Researcher, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Dr María José Iglesias (maria-jose.iglesias@fundp.ac.be), Research Centre in IT and Law (CRID), University of Namur

Ms Violaine Dehin (violaine.dehin@fundp.ac.be), Research Centre in IT and Law (CRID), University of Namur

Professor Katharine Sarikakis (k.sarikakis@leeds.ac.uk), Centre for International Communications Research, University of Leeds

Economic Analyst: Professor Eleftherios Zacharias, Athens University of Economics and Business (ezachar@aueb.gr).

Contact person at ELIAMEP

Dr Evangelia Psychogiopoulou (epsychogiopoulou@eliamep.gr), Research Fellow, ELIAMEP

The study ‘Collecting Societies and Cultural Diversity in the Music Sector’ has been commissioned by the European Parliament in order to take stock of recent market developments in the field of music rights management and examine how EU policy on music rights licensing affects (or might affect) cultural diversity in the music sector. The study is based on the premise that music rights management may have major repercussions on creative activity and the market availability of diversified musical content. The business model used for the collection and distribution of revenues to right holders can affect the volume of creative output and condition the presence of different types of music repertoire in the market.

With a view to investigating the cultural ramifications of recent EU action in the field of music rights management and relevant market developments, in-depth research has been carried out in five EU Member States, which were selected as ‘case-studies’: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. Research was coordinated by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and drew on the expertise of a team of academics and research fellows that specialise in intellectual property matters.

Duration: December 2008-June 2009

Funded by the European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies, Policy Department Structural and Cohesion Policies

Project Coordinator: Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy

In ELIAMEP Thesis 1/2009 Anna Triandafyllidou, Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, argues that mobility partnerships and circular migration as proposed by the Commission in its respective Communication are not likely to work. The author holds that many if not most neighbouring countries will be unable to comply and implement the conditions set by the EU. At the same time, it is questionable whether one should tie schemes of legal migration to the efficiency of the source country in combating irregular migration, as this is both economically irrational and politically questionable. [More..]

In this book, Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, examines the impact of improving EU-Turkey relations on Turkish political culture since Turkey became a candidate for EU membership in 1999. While a multi-party political system was introduced in Turkey in 1946, political liberalism was the missing part of Turkey’s democratic consolidation. Turkish political culture valued submissiveness toward state authority and did not favor citizen participation. This study evaluates the impact that Turkey’s EU-motivated political reform had on civil society, state-society relations, the role of religion in politics and national identity. This leads to an assessment of whether Turkish political culture has become more participant. [More..]