EU-25 Watch is a pan-European research report on the functioning of the EU as perceived by individual EU Member States. It was founded by TEPSA (Trans European Political Science Association) in 2004 and published (from 2005 to 2009) as a work package delivery within the EU-CONSENT (Constructing Europe Network) network of excellence. In 2007 the project was re-named to EU-27 Watch and continues even though the project EU-CONSENT is formally finished.

All eight EU-Watch reports are available on the following website: http://www.eu-consent.net/content.asp?contentid=522

Slovenian contribution to EU-27 Watch No. 9 published
The new issue of the EU-27 Watch including the Slovenian country report written by the Centre for International Relations is now available at: www.EU-27Watch.org. The EU-27 Watch No. 9 gives an overview on the current national debates on European policy in the 27 EU member states and the 4 candidate countries. The topics discussed in the EU-27 No. 9 are: the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, enlargement and the European Neighbourhood Policy, the financial crisis and economic policy, and climate and energy policy. A comparative introduction gives an overview of the debates in the 31 countries covered by the EU-27 Watch.

The CIR organized a workshop The EU and Eastern Europe within a Network of Excellence GARNET on 8th July 2006 in Ljubljana. Preceding the workshop, a PhD Summer school

METHODOLICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH ON EUROPEANISATION AND SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE

was held on 4th – 7th of July, 2006, at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The CIR has organised a number of international conferences and workshops in different fields of international relations. Such conferences and workshops include:

-         30th EIBA Annual Conference entitled Enlarged European Union: Challenges to International Business and Management (http://guests.fdv.uni-lj.si/eiba), 2004.

-         Workshop on Slovenian foreign direct investment. Organised together with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia. Ljubljana, 2000.

-         International conference: Globalisation, European integration, national identity: challenges for small countries. Organised with the Government Office for European Affairs, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the Public Relations and Media Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, Delegation of the European Commission in the Republic of Slovenia, the American Centre (Ljubljana). Ljubljana, 1999.

-         International conference: Opportunities and challenges of the Slovenian integration into the European Union. Organised in co-operation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the Public Relations and Media Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, the Karl-Renner-Institut (Austria), and the TAIEX Office at the European Commission. Ljubljana, 1998.

-         European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Session; Workshop on small states in the transforming European system. Bern, 1997.

-         Workshop on small open market economies (SMOPEC). Organised in co-operation with the Working group of the European International Business Academy on Outward Foreign Direct Investments and the European Union. Bled, 1996.

-         Expert meeting on the economic aspects of Slovenia’s integration into the European Union. Organised with the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA). Bled, 1996.

-         Workshop on small states in the new European architecture. Organised in co-operation with the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway. Bergen and Ankaran, 1993-1995.