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
- Polityka Insight analysis: SD to win European Elections, EPP to lose votes to Eurosceptics
- Book reviews
- 30. januar 2014
In their usual short and to-the-point style, Polityka Insight (pay wall) published an interesting analysis of the European elections.
- From Brussels Think Tank Dialogue session 1: legitimacy, parliaments, the Council
- Blog post
- 28. januar 2014
Just a few notes from this session, with links to additional resources.
- IMF book: Jobs and Growth: Supporting the European Recovery
- EU Council bibliography
- 28. januar 2014
Quite a busy day for think tanks in Brussels today: EPC hosts a presentation by IMF Director Christine Lagarde, of the latest IMF book: Jobs and Growth: Supporting the European Recovery.
- Library attends Brussels Think Tank Dialogue 2014
- Blog post
- 28. januar 2014
We are always looking for interesting papers to report in our (roughly) monthly Think Tank Review. So we could not really miss this year's edition of the Brussels Think Tank Dialogue.
- EU subsidiarity check by National Parliaments
- Book reviews
- 21. januar 2014
Also of interest, on this topic, the work by Wessels and others on the much less structured control by national parliaments over the European Council.
- EU 6.0 - a new blog on European elections
- Book reviews
- 17. januar 2014
EU Issue Tracker launched a blog with information and analysis in view of the European elections.
- New article: The EU in the Eyes of the Chinese, Indian and Russian Press
- Book reviews
- 15. januar 2014
The latest Journal of European Integration carries an article (paywall) on 'The Role of the EU in an Emerging New World Order in the Eyes of the Chinese, Indian and Russian press'.
- Further views on 2014 elections
- Book reviews
- 10. januar 2014
Despite the growing attention to the performance of anti-system parties in the next European elections, Matthew Goodwin in the New Statesman argues that other elections should be watched closely in 2014.
- On Blyth's 'Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea'
- EU Council bibliography
- 8. januar 2014
Mark Blyth's argument in his Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea (OUP 2013 - our catalogue record here) was summarised as "austerity doesn’t work. Period”.
- European Parliament Eurobarometer - what Europeans know and think of the European Parliament
- Book reviews
- 20. december 2013
With six month go until the 2014 European elections, this European Parliament-commissioned Eurobarometer survey looks at the knowledge and perceptions the Europ[...]