Pre-Summit Briefings & European Council Notes 2020/6-7-8

Peter Ludlow

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Journal - e + print

  • Pre-Summit Briefing 2020/06 - 1-2 October: Catching up on the EU’s Internal Agenda and Defining Europe’s Place in the World
  • Pre-Summit Briefing 2020/07 - 15 and 16 October: Brexit, Climate Change, Africa, foreign policy, Covid-19
  • Pre-Summit Briefing 2020/08 - 19 November: Covid-19, Rule of Law Conditionality, US Elections, Terrorism and Brexit
  • European Council Notes 2020/06-08 - August to November: Covid-19, the Recovery Package, the Economy, Climate Change, Brexit, External Relations and Leadership

EuroComment’s Pre-Summit Briefings and European Council Notes are uniquely valuable. Launched twenty years ago and based on a wide range of published and unpublished sources, including interviews with key players, they provide a continuous, highly readable and independent narrative of the politics and policies of the European Council, the EU’s principal decision-making institution.

From February 2020 onwards, the Pre-Summit Briefings and the European Council Notes will be published by Leuven University Press under the name European Council Studies. The mission and ambition will remain unchanged. A subscription to European Council Studies covers both the Pre-Summit Briefings and the European Council Notes. European Council Studies remains an online series that follows the meeting pace of the EU Council, resulting in a minimum of 4 issues and a maximum of 10 issues annually. A print edition is also available.

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Pre-Summit Briefing 2020/06
1-2 October: Catching up on the EU’s Internal Agenda and Defining Europe’s Place in the World

Pre-Summit Briefing 2020/07
15 and 16 October: Brexit, Climate Change, Africa, Foreign Policy, Covid-19

Pre-Summit Briefing 2020/08
19 November: Covid-19, Rule of Law Conditionality, US Elections, Terrorism and Brexit

European Council Notes 2020/06-08
August to November: Covid-19, the Recovery Package, the Economy, Climate Change, Brexit, External Relations and Leadership

1. The themes: an overview 
1.1. Covid-19 again and again 
1.2. The Recovery Fund 
1.3. The EU economy: the single market, industrial policy and digital 
1.4. Climate Change 
1.5. Brexit 
1.6 External Relations 
1.7 Leadership 
1.7.1 Germany’s six-month Presidency 
1.7.2 The reorganisation of the European Council’s and Council’s handling of Covid-19 12
1.7.3 The resuscitation of the Leaders’ Agenda meetings 
1.7.4 The Michel regime 

2. The August European Council: Belarus, Turkey and Mali 
2.1 Belarus 
2.2 Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean 
2.3 Mali 

3. The European Council of 1 and 2 October 
3.1. Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean 
3.2. China, Belarus, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Alexei Navalny 
3.3. The domestic agenda 
3.3.1. Leaders’ Agenda Meetings: the revival of a Tusk-era initiative 
3.3.2. Covid-19 
3.3.3. Other business: strategic autonomy, rule of law conditionality and Brexit 
3.4. The significance of the meeting 

4. The European Council of 15 and 16 October 
4.1. David Sassoli: the MFF, the NGEU and the European Parliament 
4.2. EU-UK relations 
4.2.1. The EU bides its time 
4.2.2. The British government buys time 
4.3. Climate Change 
4.4. Covid-19 
4.5. External Relations 
4.5.1. Africa 55
4.5.2. The Southern Neighbourhood, Belarus, Turkey and Flight MH17 
4.5.3. Michel closes the meeting 

5. The Video Conferences of 29 October and 19 November 
5.1. The meeting on 29 October 
5.2. The meeting on 19 November 
5.3. The significance of the new-style Covid-19 video conferences 

6. Some Conclusions 

Format: Journal - e + print

Size: 254 × 178 mm

ISBN: 9789461653277

Publication: September 30, 2020

Series: European Council Studies 6

Languages: English