In this call to action, Renew Europe MEP Urmas Paet, who was Estonian foreign minister from 2005-2014, forensically examines the EU’s too-often ineffective performance in the face of a wide range of foreign policy challenges. Lack of consensus among the member states, slow decision-making, strategic confusion, poor engagement with potential partners and an absence of real conviction are constant themes.

The inescapable conclusion is that in foreign policy the EU, while a source of ceaseless...

The 2023 Ultimate EU Test Book Administrators edition has been updated to match the new format for EPSO competitions after May 2023, which has shorter timelines, some tests dropped, and new ones added.

The 2023 Administrators edition covers the new competition process all the way through to the establishment of the Reserve List − the list of laureates eligible for recruitment to permanent posts by the EU institutions. In it you will find:

• What the new-style EPSO Administrator competitio...

This expanded and updated edition 2.0 is for all EU staff, at all levels, permanent, temporary or contract − and indeed anyone with ambitions to work in the EU sphere. It is supported by a free-to-use self-assessment app. With this book you will be able to:

● Understand the EU ‘core competencies’ of analysis and problem solving, communicating, delivering quality and results, learning and development, prioritising and organising, resilience, working with others, and leadership and how ...

This book tells the story of the UK Members of the European Parliament from the first direct elections in 1979 to British withdrawal in 2020.

Their work was rarely acknowledged in their own country, making them for the most part a “forgotten tribe”. Nonetheless, in the words of former UK permanent representative Ivan Rogers: “The EU as a whole benefitted hugely from the expertise, the wisdom, the breadth, the temperament, the professionalism, the humour and even the constructive health...

About to graduate, or just graduated and wondering what next? Working in a dead end job – or just couch surfing? Feeling like you’ve joined the queue but will never get to the front of it? Or just wanting to get ahead a bit faster?

Author Jan De Sutter spends his life coaching and training people in these situations. Here he brings together a whole range of ideas, blending insights from his own hands-on experience and the wisdom of other experts, to help give you the edge to get your care...

This book is designed to help candidates succeed at the Assessment Centre, the final stage in EPSO competitions and the gateway to jobs in the EU institutions. This specially updated 2021 edition includes the online testing regime and situational competency based interview introduced because of the Covid pandemic. Written by experts in EPSO competitions, it explains exactly what the assessors are looking for and is packed with useful tips about how to prepare, what to do – and mistakes to a...

In Brussels lobbying is the oil that makes the wheels go round. No institution, no member state, no political group, no special interest can push a policy through unaided. Everyone needs allies, and everyone needs to lobby. But while Brussels has many lobbyists – only Washington is said to compare − only a few operate on the level of the superlobbyist.

Step by step, and with many revealing and candid anecdotes of his own successes and failures, Brussels public affairs specialist Milos Lab...

The Ultimate EU Test Book Assistants 2020 is specially designed for candidates preparing for European Personnel Selection office (EPSO) competitions at Assistant (AST and SC) level. It is relevant to all Assistant-level EPSO open competitions and CAST selections.

The 2020 edition is the biggest Assistants edition ever and full of strategies, advice and practice exercises. The focus is on the computer-based multiple choice question tests which prove an obstacle to so many. Included are methodo...