Library blog

The June Think Tank Review is out, referencing papers published in May 2014. As could be expected, a large share of the think tank papers published last May were devoted to the European elections.

In a speech in 1988, Jacques Delors made the prediction that in ten years, 80% of the legislation related to economics, maybe also to taxes and social affairs will be of Community origin.

'The European Council and European Governance: The Commanding Heights of the EU' edited by François Foret and Yann-Sven Rittelmeyer. This book, part of the Routledge Studies on Government and the European Union series, provides an introduction to the institutional changes brought by the Lisbon Treaty, a perspective on the institutionalisation of the European Council, and insight into its emerging inter-institutional position.

On 12 and 13 June, a group of librarians from the Central Library of the Council of the European Union attended this year's Eurolib general assembly, held in The Hague.