Library blog
Welcome to the Council Library blog.
The blog is used to disseminate the bibliographical and research products of the Council Library. It is also used to engage with a wider audience and share new or topical information and research related to EU policies.
Any views expressed in the blog are the personal views of their authors. They do not necessarily represent the position of the Council of the European Union or the European Council.
Our blog contains:
- Event report
A post relating to an event or conference.
- New books
An overview of the latest books acquired by the Library.
- Reading suggestion
A reading worth sharing.
- Think Tank Review
A monthly selection of EU-related papers published by think tanks across the world.
Latest posts
- Opportunities and threats of the digital economy
- Blog post
- 24. lokakuuta 2016
The Library and Research Sector attended the conference on "Opportunities and threats of the digital economy", organised by the Egmont Institute in cooperation with the UN Association-Belgium (APNU).
- Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Forum: How to implement the EU Global Strategy
- Blog post
- 19. lokakuuta 2016
From crisis management to conflict prevention or how to implement the EU Global Strategy - different initiatives: resilience and an integrated approach to conflict and crisis, an implementation plan on security and defence, strengthening internal and external nexuses and public diplomacy.
- 'A different kind of democracy? - Debates about democracy and the European Union'
- EU Council bibliography
- 18. lokakuuta 2016
Is the European Union democratic? Can it be democratic? Should it be democratic? How should the European Union be democratic? The contributions included in this book show how many different answers can be given to these questions
- Politics and leadership - How are populist movements attracting millennials and why?
- Blog post
- 14. lokakuuta 2016
The event provided an opportunity to present the website Populism Tracker, which investigates populism trends in all the member states of the European Union and aims at creating a deeper political understanding of the growing distance between citizens and their institutions of governance.
- Wider Europe, neighbourhood and the world community
- Blog post
- 13. lokakuuta 2016
The seminar organized by ALDE Group aimed to provoke a debate on EU future and geopolitical role in the world.
- Europe, anyone? The 'communication deficit' of the European Union revisited
- EU Council bibliography
- 12. lokakuuta 2016
What is the best way to share information about the European Union's institutions and activities with a diverse, diffuse and often uninterested public? This question, regularly posed over the past few decades, has in recent years come to be asked with ever increasing desperation. Bernd Spanier's study, Europe, anyone? The 'communication deficit' of the European Union revisited, was published in 2012 and is based on a dissertation submitted in 2010, but many of the observations it makes are still highly relevant, perhaps even more so, in 2016.
- A human right set aside: freedom of religion or belief in Europe and the world
- Blog post
- 10. lokakuuta 2016
The aim of the conference was to discuss freedom of religion and belief around the world as well as the EU's role in establishing and improving it in countries where Christians are being discriminated against.
- European Space Agency - European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA-ESTEC) Open Day 2016
- Blog post
- 6. lokakuuta 2016
The European Space Agency (ESA) has sites in several European countries, but the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is the largest. ESTEC is ESA's technical heart, where most projects are born and are guided through the various phases of development.
- The impact of referenda on parliamentary democracy
- Blog post
- 5. lokakuuta 2016
The Library and Research Sector attended the workshop on the 'Impact of referenda on parliamentary democracy', in the framework of the PADEMIA project. The workshop was an opportunity to look into the interaction of plebiscitary and parliamentary democracy, with reference to the recent developments in the UK as well as the consequences of the Brexit vote for both the UK and the EU.
- New books added to the Library collection - October 2016
- New books
- 3. lokakuuta 2016
No better way to spend the cloudy and rainy autumn days than with a book and a cup of tea in hand! As usual, there is a lot to pick and choose from.