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
- EU-Japan relations: trade, politics, and re-emerging together from the crisis
- Book reviews
- 2014 m. gegužės 7 d.
On the day of the 22nd EU-Japan summit, we have extracted from our database of think tank papers a selection of documents on Japan and its relation to the EU.
- Study ranks the crisis response efficiency of international organisations
- Blog post
- 2014 m. balandžio 28 d.
On 10 April 2014, we attended a book talk organised by the NATO Library in Brussels. Heidi Hardt, a professor at the University of Texas, presented her new book 'Time to react' which addresses crisis response efficiency of international organisations.
- Transparency International Report on Corruption and Integrity Risks in EU Institutions
- Book reviews
- 2014 m. balandžio 25 d.
Transparency International has just published a comprehensive review of corruption- and integrity risks in the EU institutions.
- 23 April 2014 - World book and copyright day
- Book reviews
- 2014 m. balandžio 23 d.
Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. These words, pronounced by Malala Yousafzai in her speech at United Nations, have been chosen by UNESCO as motto for the World book and copyright day 2014 on 23 April 2014.
- Think Tank Review - Issue 12/2014
- Think tank review
- 2014 m. balandžio 14 d.
The April Think Tank Review is out, referencing papers published in March.
- Institute for Economic Affairs' Brexit prize - our quick reading of the winning entry
- Book reviews
- 2014 m. balandžio 10 d.
The most recent contribution to the UK - EU debate, which attracted some attention by the press, is the paper by UK diplomat Iain Mansfield awarded with the 'Brexit prize' by the free-market think tank Institute for Economic Affairs.
- Separatism in Europe (4) - Political and Economic Implications
- Book reviews
- 2014 m. balandžio 8 d.
2014 will be a decisive year for separatist movements in Europe. A referendum on the independence of Scotland is scheduled for September.
- Caritas report examines the social cost of economic crisis
- Book reviews
- 2014 m. balandžio 3 d.
Caritas Europa has released the second report of a series of annual studies on the human impact of the economic crisis and austerity policies on the European Union's most vulnerable people, with a focus on the seven EU Member States most affected by the crisis: Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain.
- Separatism in Europe (3) - New states and EU Membership
- Book reviews
- 2014 m. balandžio 2 d.
2014 will be a decisive year for separatist movements in Europe. A referendum about the independence of Scotland is scheduled for September.
- Jacques Le Goff - in memoriam
- Book reviews
- 2014 m. balandžio 1 d.
French historian Jacques Le Goff, promoter and then president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, has passed away.