Jaanika Erne | 1:08, 6 March 2010

To create some more order, here are some links to parliaments and their relations in Europe:
Interparliamentary websites:
COSAC
ECPRD - The European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation
Council of Europe
IPU: Inter-Parliamentary Union
ASGP: Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments
EP Relations with National Parliaments
 
Exchanging information among parliaments:
IPEX – Interparliamentary EU Information Exchange http://www.ipex.eu/ipex/cms/home;jsessionid=86722EDF4D8F90ED0FF1CB8769797C0D
Database http://www.ipex.eu/ipex/cms/home/Documents;jsessionid=8E75374CDA35008C8558202032D0FCC3
Comments of the European Commission on opinions from national parliaments http://www.ipex.eu/ipex/cms/home/pid/4;jsessionid=86722EDF4D8F90ED0FF1CB8769797C0D

European Geostrategy | 13:44, 26 February 2010

President Herman Van Rompuy is often poked as a figure of fun. But does his first speech on foreign and security policy reflect a closet Machiavellian, plotting and strategising to flesh out the European interest?

Jaanika Erne | 1:13, 19 February 2010

When I attended the course “United Nations and International Law”, read by Lauri Mälksoo at the University of Tartu, we were shown a film about international conflict resolution, the UN, and the global politics. Unfortunately, I do not remember the name of the film, although I believe that it is quite a well-known one. Though cluster bombs were not [...]

Pietro De Matteis | 14:47, 3 February 2010

By Pietro De Matteis
Such a strong decision was in the air especially in Washington. The US was expecting a new EU after the Lisbon treaty: more coherent, stronger and more comprehensible. An Europe that after about 8 years since the Laeken Convention, that started the path towards EU’s institutional reform, could finally become an effective [...]

Jaanika Erne | 0:01, 1 February 2010

I found the following advertisement from the Legal Writing Professors Blog: „Israel’s first international conference on academic writing, Academic Writing and Beyond in Multicultural Societies, takes place from July 28 to 29, 2010, organized by The Israel Forum for Academic Writing (IFAW) and the Institute of Research, Curriculum and Program Development for Teacher Education (known by [...]

Jaanika Erne | 23:18, 28 January 2010

Russia has (and also formally on 4th February 2010, see ITAR-TASS, and EU Declaration on the Ratification of Protocol 14) ratified Protocol No.14 to the European Convention on Human Rights. On 15th January 2010, the State Duma of the Russian Federation voted in favour of the ratification of Protocol No.14. On 27th January 2010, the upper [...]

European Geostrategy | 20:24, 14 January 2010

How should the European Union develop its multilateral relationships with the rest of the world? How should it utilise new informal groupings like the G20? And what should the G20’s relationship be with the United Nations?

European Geostrategy | 20:43, 6 January 2010

The last decade was very eventful. The age was defined by Islamist terrorism, military intervention and economic globalisation, and often seemed to be running on fast forward. What will happen in the next ten years? Here are ten predictions!

European Geostrategy | 18:26, 28 December 2009

Russia is keen to buy a powerful amphibious warship from France to assert its geostrategic interests around its borders. If France accepts the offer, how will this impact on Russian-European relations, especially in light of Russia’s intentions in the Baltic and Black Sea regions?

European Geostrategy | 12:00, 15 December 2009

What does Afghanistan (and by implication, Pakistan) mean for Europeans? Is the threat posed by both merely transnational in nature, or does it also contain a geopolitical dimension? And how should Europeans respond? What conceptual changes are required to make the European Union more effective in this region?