The European Council on Foreign Relations

ECFR this week: 6th July

Date: 6th July 2012  |  Author: Nicholas Walton,

Categories: ECFR this week ,
Tags: , euco, eurocrisis, germany, germany , bulgaria

We have just published the latest in our series of short papers looking at the internal dynamics of the euro crisis within individual EU member states. Following in the footsteps of Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic (and this related paper from Spain) is ‘Bulgaria and the anxieties of incomplete membership’ by Daniel Smilov. The next ‘National Paper’ should be on the situation in the Netherlands.

Much of the rest of our work over the last week has also been concerned with the crisis, the latest EU summit and the Reinvention of Europe:

• François Godement gave his assessment of the European Council in this piece – ‘Walking backwards towards integration at the EU summit’
• Ulrike Guérot picked up on the summit from the German point of view in ‘We need a more honest EU debate in Germany!’
• For more on German attitudes to the euro crisis have a look at this summary of recent opinion polls from Olaf Boehnke in Berlin.
• José Ignacio Torreblanca wrote this piece – ‘Madrid view: totem and taboo’ – looking at the European Council from the Spanish point of view.
• Just before the summit we published the first of a new ‘View from the capitals’ series with ECFR staff across Europe looking at a particular issue (in this case the EU summit). Click here to read the pre-summit views from Berlin, Rome, Warsaw, Paris and Madrid.

On other (related) issues:

• The latest piece from Mark Leonard (the third of his blog posts for Reuters) looks at populism’s rise in Europe, and whether Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to rekindle his political career in Austria.
• In our Paris office Pirro Venglu interviewed Pierre Verluise for a (French language) podcast looking at the consequences of the euro crisis on French foreign and defence policy.
• In his latest ‘Sofia View’ blog post, Dimitar Bechev writes about a thawing of relations between Paris and Ankara.