Europe
The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: the risks of navigating without a map
By Miquel Vila · 17/02/2021
On the brink of 2021, China and the European Union (EU) signed the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment’s (CAI). The Commission argues that the CAI contains substantial concessions from China that would help balance trade relations and create a level playing field between both economies. China has agreed to open new areas of its economy […]
The European Union is an international organization
By Jofre Rocabert · 29/01/2021
The European Union seems to be living in an almost permanent institutional crisis. But looking at it through a wider perspective, we are still living in the historical period that the French inaugurated when they refused to ratify the constitutional treaty in 2005. The departure of the United Kingdom and the disintegration of freedom of […]
Catalonia’s opportunity in the new Mediterranean equilibrium
By Rosa Cabús · 29/01/2021
During the Cold War, there was complete strategic alignment between the United States (US) and Western Europe, evidenced in particular by the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) so as to prevent a potential military attack from the Soviet Union (USSR) and its satellites, who themselves would later form the Warsaw Pact. Article […]