The energy performance of buildings: promises still unfulfilled
Energy-consuming buildings have to disappear from the European building stock. Improving their energy performance is thus pivotal and the EU has been active in this domain
Publications
The dangers and inanity of (euro-)nationalism. From communitarianism to cosmopolitanism
In the middle of a multifaceted crisis, secure identities often seem like easy and comforting responses. This paper takes a different stance: it contests the very common communitarian postulate according to which a […]
Commentaries
Will the foreign fighters issue ever end?
Rik Coolsaet questions the supposed socio-economic root causes of the phenomenon of foreign fighters. This commentary appeared in European Geostrategy on 19 April 2015.
Commentaries
Burkina Faso’s popular revolution fraying at the edges
In this commentary, Valérie Arnould reflects on the implications of the recent changes to the electoral law in Burkina Faso for the country’s transition process. She cautions that a desire […]
Commentaries
Rather no government of technocrats
The “De Morgen” Newspaper chose Sven Biscop as defence minister in a hypothetical government of technocrats for Belgium. But Belgian and EU policy needs to become more political, not more […]
Commentaries
Half a grand strategy is not enough
Sven Biscop points out that the EU is caught between member states that do not have a strategy and those that do but who do not have the means to […]