A paper by Prof John O’Hagan on economic sovereignty. This paper was written for the the IIEA/McCann FitzGerald seminar ‘Economic Sovereignty in an Age of Globalisation and EU Integration’.

The IIEA is pleased to present the first paper published by the IIEA Economic Governance Group – ‘Reforming European Economic Governance: The European Semester and other Recent Developments’ by Michael G Tutty.

In this blog Patrick Holden, University of Plymouth, examines the political implications of the BRICS leaders’ summit, which took place in March 2013. 

France and Estonia are the latest countries to ratify the Fiscal Stability Treaty and Slovakia is due to follow suit this week. A number of other countries have started or made progress, leaving only Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary and Sweden yet to begin the process. According to a report prepared for the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee meeting on 26 November 2012, the ratification procedure has been completed in fifteen Member States (of which twelve are Eurozone countries), although the final formal step of depositing the instruments of ratification with the Council of the European Union has only been carried out by twelve Member States (of which eight are Eurozone countries). It now appears likely that the required twelve Eurozone countries will deposit the instruments of ratification by the end of the year, allowing the Fiscal Stability Treaty to come into force on 1 January 2013 as planned. 

This blog considers the EU’s ‘Global Europe’ development aid in the recent debates over the Multi-Annual Financial Framework, i.e. the EU’s budget.

The European Commission has stopped the clock on aviation emissions in the EU-ETS.

In this blog Oisín Gilmore considers the significant reform proposals contained in Van Rompuy’s Interim Report to the October 2012 European Council. These topics include proposals for a Eurozone budget and proposals for individual contracts between the EU and Member States.

On 23 November 2012, the Institute for International and European Affairs (IIEA) will host a pre-presidency conference in Dublin Castle. This one-day conference will examine the policy priorities of the Irish presidency and consider some of the major debates likely to take place during that period. 

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The final EU-China Summit before the Chinese leadership transition this autumn takes place on 20th of September 2012.

The IIEA is very pleased to present two new papers in the Euro Crisis Working Paper Series by Alan Dukes and Pat McArdle. These papers present two unique perspectives on how to address the Euro Crisis.

The IIEA is proud to publish a "Challenges to the ESM Treaty and the Fiscal Compact Treaty before the German Constitutional Court", as part of its Eurocrisis series, by former Attorney General Paul Gallagher SC.

Patrick Holden comments on the implications of Russia’s recent accession to the World Trade Organisation.