Tag: European Union

  • Safeguarding the EDTIB: the Case for Supervising non-EU FDI in the Defence Sector

    Safeguarding the EDTIB: the Case for Supervising non-EU FDI in the Defence Sector

    It is time for the EU member states to start collectively supervising non-EU FDI in Europe’s defence industries and infrastructures. This should be a prudent element of the nascent EDTIB and a way to maintain European security by encouraging greater coordination between the national supervisory frameworks. Egmont Institute, 2012, No.…

  • How to Avoid the Three Pitfalls of European Strategy

    How to Avoid the Three Pitfalls of European Strategy

    European academics, think‐tankers and policy-makers make three consistent and critical errors when debating strategy: firstly, they do not clearly define what they mean by “strategy” – a problem that has long haunted the field of strategic studies; secondly, and as a result, they tend to speak of European strategic interests,…

  • How Europeanised has Maltese Foreign Policy Become?

    How Europeanised has Maltese Foreign Policy Become?

    This essay focuses on the degree to which Maltese foreign policy has become Europeanized because of its membership in the European Union. The author focuses on three trends resulting from the Europeanization process: first, the ways in which Malta’s national policies and political structures have become altered to meet the…