Introduction

  • Beatriz Pérez de las Heras University of Deusto, Spain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2810
Keywords: telemedicine, online brokering service, personal health data, integration, culture, Ukraine, Israel, European Neighbourhood Policy, Arab-Israeli conflict

Abstract

The energy crisis and the geopolitical tensions generated by the war in Ukraine continue to determine the European agenda during this year 2023. For Spain, the second semester of this year is especially relevant since it holds the Presidency of the Council of the Union and, therefore, of the European Union (EU). The Spanish Presidency coincides with the last stretch of the current institutional cycle, before the European elections in May 2024, after which not only the political composition of the European Parliament will be renewed, but also that of the European Commission. This circumstance confers on Spain a special responsibility to boost negotiations and achieve the necessary consensus in the EU’s priority areas of work, such as the accelerated energy transition, digital transformation, the migration challenge, the social agenda and the stability at its eastern border. Likewise, the fifth Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU will coincide with a key moment in the implementation of the national recovery plans, since, by the end of 2023, the assigned European resources must be fully committed. With these perspectives and in a still uncertain and changing geopolitical context, this miscellaneous number 69/2023 of Deusto Journal of European Studies includes various contributions that address issues related to the digitization of medicine, the future integration of Ukraine into the EU and the relations of the EU with Israel. This second issue of 2023 also includes the usual chronicles of jurisprudence and current affairs in Europe signed by our faithful and valued collaborators, David Ordóñez Solís and Beatriz Iñarritu.

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Author Biography

Beatriz Pérez de las Heras, University of Deusto, Spain

Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair on European Integration at the University of Deusto (UD). PhD in Law (UD), she accomplished post-graduate studies at the Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy (France), where she obtained the DESS and DEA en Droit Communautaire. She was Director of the European Studies Institute at UD from 1996 to 2009, and Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on European Union Law and International Relations from 2013 to 2016. She also served as Vice-Dean for Research and International Relations at Deusto Faculty of Law from 2013 to 2015. She has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Oregon (2009), Georgetown (2012), Fordham (2013), Boston College (2014) and Florida International University (2016). She is currently Editor —in— Chief of Deusto Journal of European Studies and Main Researcher of the “Integración Europea y Derecho Patrimonial” research team. She is author of various books and articles on European legal issues. As of September 2019, she is the Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Project “European Union-Asia Pacific Dialogue: promoting European Integration and mutual Knowledge across Continents” (EUNAP).

Published
2023-09-27
How to Cite
Pérez de las Heras, Beatriz. 2023. “Introduction”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 69 (September), 19-25. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2810.
Issue
No. 69 (2023)
Section
Introduction

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