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Concerns over Canada's Arctic Council agenda

The Arctic Council is taking steps to move from a decision-shaping to a decision-making international organisation – but Canada might find Sweden's chairmanship a tough act to follow, write Kristofer Bergh, Linda Jakobson and Ekaterina Klimenko

» Environment analysis

National sovereignty needs to be 'reconsidered' - says EU

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Head of the European Commission in the UK admits that 'traditional notions of national sovereignty may need to be reconsidered' in order to align the country with globalisation

» Integration and enlargement news

Iceland may now wait until next crisis to join the EU

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Just as the country's attractiveness as a prospective EU member state has grown, its appetite for membership has faded - writes Lidia Puka

» Maritime Affairs feature

Economic crisis hits press freedom in Europe

The economic crisis in the EU saw the development of an 'increasingly hostile' environment for journalists in Greece and led to a wider sense that the media could not fulfil its vital role in holding authority to account, a report says

» Trade, finance and markets news

The creative industries: moving from analogue to digital

As the creative industries become a dominant force in the industrial landscape and businesses across the economy invest in creative competitiveness strategies, policy-makers must wake up – insists Hasan Bakhshi

» e-government feature

Growing Euroscepticism in Germany could derail European project

Without a concerted effort by Germans and all Europeans to consign the growing populist movement to a political no-man's land, the crisis in Europe may just have taken another turn for the worse - writes Joerg Forbrig

» Integration and enlargement analysis

Populism making euro crisis 'more combustible'

The euro crisis has not caused European populism but is certainly fuelling it – and it is unlikely that politics will return to the staid two or three party systems of the post-war years, writes Katinka Barysch

» Trade, finance and markets analysis

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