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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Is A Model EU Bit Possible-or Even Desirable? by Armand de Mestral

CETD lead researcher Armand de Mestral has written a paper for Columbia FDI Perspectives.  His paper entitled "Is A Model EU Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) Possible-or Even Desirable?"  is reprinted here and is also available here. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which entered into force on December 1, 2009,... More

Monday, March 15, 2010

Policy Brief: “A New Approach to Citizenship and Integration: Some Facts about Recent Policy Changes in Germany” by Elke Winter and Kristina John

Policy Brief (March 2010) by Elke Winter and Kristina... More

Monday, March 15, 2010

Policy Brief: “Civil society in the EU: a strong player or a fig-leaf for the democratic deficit?” by Ingeborg Tömmel

Policy Brief (March 2010) by Ingeborg Tömmel, Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and Policies, University of Osnabrück, Germany This paper asks why civil society has become such an important actor and what role it plays in the European polity. The policy paper will trace the evolution of civil society as an additional player in European... More

Monday, March 1, 2010

La flexibilité des parlements dans les systèmes de gouvernance à niveaux multiples : ce que le Canada peut apprendre de l’Union européenne / Resilience of parliaments in multilevel government: What Canada can learn from the European Union

Document d’information, mars 2010 / Policy Brief, March 2010 By Arthur Benz, Fern Universität Hagen French version English... More

Friday, January 1, 2010

Policy Brief: “One Hand Giveth, the Other Taketh Away: Emissions Trading Schemes & Barriers to Expansion in a Liberalized Aviation Market by Mark Glynn

Policy Brief (January 2010) by Mark Glynn, under the supervision of Professor Armand de Mestral, Jean Monnet Chair in the Law of International Economic Integration This paper examines the seemingly paradoxical relationship between the soon to be implemented liberal aviation marketplace between Canada and the European Union and the EU’s... More

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Policy Brief: “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Climate Change Politics in the U.S. and Canada” by Matthew Paterson

Policy Brief (December 2009) CETD member Matthew Paterson wrote a paper for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit. You can read the publication in English and in German. In comparison with most other countries who have already developed more ambitious climate policy measures, the US and Canada are extremely... More

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Commentary: “Canada and the EU towards an international standoff? The increasingly troublesome Czech visa saga” by Oliver Schmidtke

Commentary (September 2009) by Oliver Schmidtke, University of... More

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Policy Brief: “Activating the Citizen: Addressing dilemmas of participation in Europe and Canada” by Joan DeBardeleben and Jon Pammett

Policy Brief (September 2009) by Joan DeBardeleben and Jon H. Pammett, Carleton... More

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Policy Paper: “Opportunity in a Time of Crisis: Stimulus Packages and the Green New Deal” by Patricia Reid

Working Policy Paper (August 2009) by Patricia Reid This research was completed as part of an internship at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung, IÖW) in Berlin, Germany, under the supervision of Ulrich Petschow. The internship was made possible by the Canada-Europe Transatlantic... More

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Policy Brief: “The Launch of Negotiations for an Encompassing EU-Canada Economic Partnership” by Kurt Hübner

Policy Brief (July 2009) by Kurt Hübner, University of British Columbia The EU-Canada Summit held in Prague on May 6, 2009, marked the end of preparatory talks between Canada and the EU on a closer economic relationship. What hitherto had sailed under various flags was in Prague finally christened the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement... More

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Commentary: “Europeanizing Canada’s Citizenship Regime?” by Inder Marwah and Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos

Commentary (May 2009) by Inder Marwah, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto and Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough and the School of Public Policy and... More

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Policy brief: “Creating a more attractive European Union – is the EU Blue Card just cosmetic?” by Sinéad Costelloe

Policy Memo (May 2009) by Sinéad Costelloe - Under the supervision of Oliver Schmidtke, Jean Monnet Chair in European History and Politics, University of... More

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