In order to improve the promotion of Policy Coherence for Development in the European Union, we need to address both 'thematic' and 'horizontal' priorities. Thematic priorities such as trade and migration policies are generally in the limelight and discussed ardently - as was the case in the Council and the EP recently. Horizontal priorities - what is to be done to actually ensure delivery on PCD? - are perhaps less exciting but no less crucial to achieving progress on PCD...   read more >>

Those of you who are subscribed to the Broker magazine will have already come across it, but this brief post is to highlight an article in the most recent edition by Otto Holman, reader in international relations and European integration studies at the University of Amsterdam. In the article, Otto Holman reflects on the recent posts in this Blog on the future of Europe, and present his own analysis of the implications of the entering into force of Lisbon for the future of Europe as a gl...   read more >>