The winners of the 2012 European Union Prize for Literature, which recognises the best new or emerging authors in Europe, were announced  on 9 October 2012 at the Frankfurt Book Fair by Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth. The annual prize is one of the ways the EU supports authors, such […]

The Archive of European Integration at Pittsburg announced that it holds the EU collection which used to be at the Delegation Office in Washington, DC, a virtually complete collection of documents. They have now scanned nearly every Offficial Publication of the EC, as well as institutional publications, on the topic of development policy including monographs – or […]

On 22 August 2012, after 18 years of negotiations, Russia joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as its 156th member. The Working Party on the Accession of the Russian Federation was established on 16 June 1993. The Working Party completed its mandate on 10 November 2011, under the chairmanship of Ambassador Stefán Jóhannesson (Iceland). The […]

TURMOIL IN EUROPE http://newleftreview.org/II/73/perry-anderson-after-the-event What longer-term political dynamics underlie the current dramas of the Eurozone? Notoriously, they pose stiff analytic problems, requiring attention both to the ongoing development of a supranational polity with no real precedent and to the varied trajectories of the—still—intractably national states it overarches. One attempt in this field has been Perry […]