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
- Write a guest review!
- Book reviews
- 15 Meitheamh 2015
Our readers frequently come up with more or less detailed suggestions and opinions on books on European politics, the EU, its Member States and Institutions. So we thought we might as well turn these suggestions into full book reviews.
- 40 years of European Council as viewed by Jan Werts
- Book reviews
- 10 Meitheamh 2015
The Library tries to keep track of all literature referring to the Council and the European Council; but whenever we can, we also like to engage with the authors who write about the two institutions.
- @eucopresident in books - a guest post (2)
- EU Council bibliography
- 8 Meitheamh 2015
A few weeks ago we hosted a review of President Tusk's book Solidarność i duma. We continue our exploration of the president's bibliographic trail with Wizerunki medialne polityków: Lech Kaczyński, Donald Tusk, Bronisław Komorowski.
- Think Tank Review - Issue 24/2015
- Think tank review
- 22 Bealtaine 2015
Welcome to issue 24 of the Think Tank Review compiled by the EU Council Library. It gives a short abstract of papers published in April 2015. For our special focus this month, we have found various papers revisiting the confrontations and tragedies of the 20th century.
- Think Tank Review - Issue 23/2015
- Think tank review
- 27 Aibreán 2015
Welcome to issue 23 of the Think Tank Review compiled by the EU Council Library. It gives a short abstract of papers published in March 2015. The Special Focus of this Review covers immigration and asylum.
- @Eucopresident in books - a guest post (1)
- EU Council bibliography
- 20 Aibreán 2015
As announced some time ago, this linguistically-challenged library[1] asked researchers at the European University Institute to tell us their opinion on Polish books on Donald Tusk, the new president of the European Council and former PM of Poland, or on books he himself wrote.
- UK general election ahead - recent resources on the in/out question
- Book reviews
- 8 Aibreán 2015
To be in or not to be in, that is probably THE question for think tanks and media as the UK general election approaches.
- Think Tank Review - Issue 22/2015
- Think tank review
- 25 Márta 2015
Welcome to issue 22 of the Think Tank Review compiled by the EU Council Library. It gives a short abstract of papers published in February 2015.
- Resource alert: More Union in European Defence
- Book reviews
- 19 Márta 2015
A little more than a week ago, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called for the creation of an EU army in an interview to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. According to him a common EU army would send a clear message to the world in general, and to EU neighbours in particular.
- Europe by the book
- Blog post
- 6 Márta 2015
A quick post to signal the launch of the initiative '100 books on Europe to remember' hosted Tuesday by our colleagues of the EP Research Service. For the occasion, the EP reading room was filled with EU geeks and book lovers who had come to hear which books have shaped the thinking of academics and practitioners