Library blog

The Central Library attended a briefing with the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs of Luxembourg, Mr Jean Asselborn, at the European Policy Centre.

In the context of the most recent elections to the European Parliament (May 2014), the Institute of Contemporary History of the New University of Lisbon brought together in one single volume several contributions by scholars from different scientific disciplines on the European parliamentary elections in Portugal.

The Central Library is pleased to present an enhanced and updated bibliography on the European Council, the Council of the European Union and their General Secretariat.

Richard T. Griffiths has been writing about European integration for decades! 'Thank you M. Monnet - Essays on the History of European Integration' gathers his most important pieces, produced over the last thirty years. It is an excellent collection of articles, which are a pleasure to read.

Which books held in our collections have been under highest demand among our readers over the past year?

Welcome to issue 31 of the Think Tank Review compiled by the EU Council Library. It references papers published in December 2015.

This book seeks to analyse the relations between the two geographical areas. It is composed of seven chapters, all of which are rich in content, well-argued and written in a manner that is accessible to the general reader.

Our visitors will find new books on the shelves of the Central Library.

We read for you 'Diplomacy - Theory and Practice', written by Professor G. R. Berridge, which you can borrow at the Central Library. This book is one of the most highly regarded introductory books on diplomacy.

On 1 January 2016, thirty years will have elapsed since Portugal and Spain became fully-fledged members of what was then the European Community. The process had started a decade before, in 1974-75, when the two Iberian dictatorships broke up and set in train a new beginning with their applications for membership to the European Community.