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
- Navigating the Polish presidency of the Council with our Library guide
- EU Council bibliography
- 13. siječnja 2025.
To help readers navigate the dynamic and complex landscape of the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Council Library has compiled a guide providing relevant and authoritative resources.
- New books added to the Council Library's collection - December 2024
- New books
- 20. prosinca 2024.
Discover our selection of books recently added to the Council Library collection.
- 1974-2024: the 50th European Council’s anniversary
- EU Council bibliography
- 19. prosinca 2024.
The European Council, originally established as a summit forum for the leaders of the European Communities, has since evolved into one of the European Union’s most crucial institutions.
On 9 and 10 December 1974 the nine leaders of the European Communities met for a summit in Paris. This would come to be seen as the founding moment of the European Council. To mark its 50th anniversary, the Council’s archives invite you to explore this significant event through their documents.
- Library guide on the Council Bibliographies Collection
- EU Council bibliography
- 18. prosinca 2024.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the European Council, the General Secretariat of the Council looks back on its key achievements and the developments and key moments in its history.
In marking this occasion, the Council Library has a role to play as a treasure hunter. Over the years, the Council Library has built up a valuable repository, the Council Bibliographies Collection.
- Think Tank Review - December 2024
- Think tank review
- 17. prosinca 2024.
The impacts of EU enlargement; the EU’s path to 2030; developing European industrial policy; international climate protection against the Trump agenda; the EU’s digital and energy ambitions; the BRICS summit in Kazan; the EU's defence industrial policy and the Atlantic Alliance, and China’s influence within the United Nations are some of the issues covered in the December Think Tank Review.
- New books added to the Council Library's collection - November 2024
- New books
- 29. studenoga 2024.
Discover our selection of books recently added to the Council Library collection.
- Think Tank Review - November 2024
- Think tank review
- 19. studenoga 2024.
The new European Commission priorities; a competitive European industrial policy; Europe’s 2040 climate target; a realigned EU strategy for stability in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean; and the Chinese military diplomacy in South Asia are some of the topics discussed in the Think Tank Review.
- Think Tank reports on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine
- Think tank review
- 13. studenoga 2024.
Why the war with Russia can still be won and the West’s counter-strategy towards Moscow; four scenarios for the end of the war in Ukraine; a modern Marshall Plan for Ukraine and related lessons from history to deliver hope; tackling circumvention of EU sanctions; whether the digital ruble can shield Russia from western sanctions are some of the topics discussed in the present update
- New books added to the Council Library's collection - October 2024
- New books
- 29. listopada 2024.
Discover our selection of books recently added to the Council Library collection.
- ‘Westlessness: the great global rebalancing’ by Samir Puri
- EU Council bibliography
- 23. listopada 2024.
Are we facing an epochal change, in which centres of power and influence multiply outside of the West’s reach? Is the West really in a state of peril? Amid so many near-apocalyptic accounts of a shifting balance of power, Samir Puri’s analysis in Westlessness: the great global rebalancing provides a sober and even optimistic counterpoint.