Welcome to Exploring EU Foreign Policy
This online resource guide for researchers, practitioners and students is a comprehensive guide through the maze of information sources on EU foreign policy. It also serves as a website companion to the book The Foreign Policy of the European Union by Stephan Keukeleire and Jennifer MacNaughtan (Palgrave 2008).
The resources are structured thematically. Every section and sub-section in the left side bar or header offers the following:
- Official EU documents and links
- Links to other organizations, NGO’s and think tanks
- Academic references
This website companion also offers the following educational material:
- PowerPoint presentations for each chapter of the book
- Updated figures and tables on EU foreign policy
- Resources and further reading for class work, papers and dissertations
This website is a Jean Monnet Action and has received funding from the European Community. It has been developed under the Jean Monnet Chair on 'European Integration and European Foreign Policy' (2006-2009) and further elaborated under the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on 'the European Union, Foreign Policy and Global Governance' (2008-2011).
More on the authors and the project
Please note that the website is being updated given the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon.
Latest Online News
First EU-Morocco summit in Granada on 7 March 2010 (Mar 8th 2010)
The first ever European Union-Morocco summit will be held in Granada (Spain) on 7 March 2010 at the invitation of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister. The European Commission will be represented by its President, José Manuel Barroso, accompanied by the Commissioner for trade, Karel de Gucht, and the Commissioner for enlargement and European neighbourhood policy, Štefan Füle. (more)
First EU-Morocco summit in Granada on 7 March 2010 (Mar 8th 2010)
The first ever European Union-Morocco summit will be held in Granada (Spain) on 7 March 2010 at the invitation of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister. The European Commission will be represented by its President, José Manuel Barroso, accompanied by the Commissioner for trade, Karel de Gucht, and the Commissioner for enlargement and European neighbourhood policy, Štefan Füle. (more)
EU splashes out €2.3 billion on anti-gas crisis projects (Mar 5th 2010)
The European Commission on Thursday (4 March) approved financing for 43 gas and electricity interconnection projects worth €2.3 billion as part of a bigger "recovery package" agreed last year in response to both the economic and the Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis. (more)
EU diplomats should target India and China (Mar 4th 2010)
The UK and Sweden have said the EU should build bigger embassies in up-and-coming capitals such as New Delhi and warned EU institutions not to hog senior posts in the bloc's new diplomatic service. (more)
'Difficult birth' awaits EU diplomatic service (Mar 5th 2010)
The birth of the European External Action Service, one of the most anticipated innovations of the Lisbon Treaty, will be a difficult one, admitted a top European Commission official yesterday (4 March). He was speaking at a conference organised by 14 European think-tanks, who presented a "contribution to the Spanish, Belgian and Hungarian trio presidency". (Euractiv)
Interesting articles about global politics (Jan 29th 2010)
Must-reads of the week
A service by www.globeurope.com
A Deal with the Taliban? -- By Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books
Ashton names team to advise on EEAS (Jan 29th 2010)
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's
foreign policy chief, has set up a group of senior officials to advise
her on the European External Action Service (EEAS), offending MEPs who
wanted to be involved in the preparations. (by Toby Vogel in today's European Voice)
INVITATION FOR LUNCH SEMINAR AND EVENING LECTURE WITH RADHIKA COOMARASWAMY – MONDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2010 (Jan 28th 2010)
Meeting Catherine Ashton - Hilary Clinton (Jan 22nd 2010)
HR Catherine Ashton was in Washington yesterday to meet with Hilary Clinton. Read their remarks
here.
