Pre-EU Summit Insights – What’s on the table on 23 & 24 October?
EPC’s leading European politics expert Janis A. Emmanouilidis gives Lénaïc Vaudin d’Imécourt an exclusive pre-summit analysis of the European Council meeting taking place on 23 and 24 October.
Topics on the agenda include:
– Expected deal on the 2030 climate and energy package
– Limiting the European Union’s energy dependence and increasing its energy security for both electricity and gas
– Europe’s response to the Ebola crisis
– Economic situation in the European Union
The next European Council will be held in Brussels on 18 and 19 December 2014.
The European Policy Centre (EPC) is a Brussels-based independent think tank focusing on European integration and provides high-quality analysis on the EU policy agenda. The EPC has a strong multi-constituency approach and has a wide range of private companies, business federations, trade unions, public institutions as well as NGOs as its members.
Janis A. Emmanouilidis works for the EPC since 2009 as a Senior Policy Analyst and was recently promoted as EPC’s Director of Studies. His publications cover the EU’s overall political and institutional development, the sovereign debt crisis, EU integration, the EU’s foreign policy as well as EU enlargement. Emmanouilidis is also active as an advisor of various governments, EU institutions, European parties and NGOs.