Authors:  Sabina Fischer, Ivan Timofeev

The EU-Russia Expert Network on Foreign Policy (EUREN) brings together 40 prominent foreign policy experts and think tanks from Russia and EU member states. The members of this core group come from different cities in Russia (Ekaterinburg, Moscow, St. Petersburg) and from 14 EU member states (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands).

Source: Politico (Category Influencers)

*Excludes appointments within the EU institutions

18 December 2020

• Zero tariffs and quotas on goods
• The end of free movement, meaning UK citizens will no longer have the right to work, live, study, or start a business in the EU without a visa
• Border checks will apply between the UK and EU member states
• There will be no hard border on the island of Ireland between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
• The UK will be able to further develop British fishing activities for at least 5-and-a-half years, during which time European fishing communities will be safeguarded

During the course of the year, entities here below have received new staff; some existing ones have been promoted while others have voluntarily left and others retired.
 

Fiat Chrysler and PSA merger (to be called Stellantis) is expected to occur by the end of the first quarter of 2021. FCA's controlling shareholder is Exor, the holding company of Italy's Agnelli family while PSA's investors are the Peugeot family, the French government and China's Dongfeng.

Authors: Iskander De Bruycker (Political Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands and Aaron McLoughlin (Senior Advisor, FleishmanHillard, Brussels, Belgium)

STEP 1: SITUATION ANALYSIS

President von der Leyen pledged that the Commission will drive a sustainable and transformational recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that will give the EU a global platform that will give the EU a global platform to lead economically, environmentally and geopolitically. According to the Commission’s President, Next Generation EU represents a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to make change happen by design and to enable the EU to become green, digital and more resilient.

There is an ongoing debate over the definition of a 'regional airport'. Some attempts to define a regional airport link the notion of 'regional' to the fact that the catchment area of an airport is located outside a capital city. There is no definition of a regional airport at EU level to date.

An airport should be considered regional if it

1. Primarily serves short and medium range routes and

2. Primarily serves point-to-point destinations

Austria (6)

In parenthesis the number of Electoral Votes