Sami Andoura

Senior Research Fellow. Energy Policy, Europe and World Governance, EU External Relations/Foreign policy.

Sami Andoura  joined  Notre Europe in April 2009, as Research Fellow.

Sami Andoura is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Studia Diplomatica - The Brussels Journal for International Relations. He is also Guest Lecturer at the University of Gent and Mons (BE), at the MGIMO (RUS) Annual International Student School in Paris as well as for the European Journalist Centre, and contributes to the several Visiting Diplomats programme at EGMONT, DG Relex, etc.) as well as in the Youth & Europe programme.    

From 2005 till 2009, Sami Andoura previously worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Relations (EGMONT, Brussels), the think tank associated with the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the European Affairs Programme, where he focused on : a new Energy Policy for Europe, the Treaty Reform and European Institutions, the external relations of the European Union - mainly EU-Russia relations, European Neighbourhood Policy, the Enlargement Policy and the Common Commercial Policy, the EU budget reform, as well as the preparation of the future Spain/Belgium/Hungary Trio Presidency of 2010-2011.  

Before that, Sami Andoura worked in 2005 in a fix-term contract in the Brussels office of the British Law firm  Lovells. From February to May 2004, he was trainee at the  Conseil de la Concurrence  in Paris (Competition authority), within the service specialized in International and European competition law and the relations with DG COMP. In 2003, he worked as an assistant of Professor  B. Brachet  at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University in Constitutional Law, Tax Law and political sciences.  

Sami Andoura completed his degree in Law at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (France) in 2003. In 2004 he specialised in a LLM (DESS) in European Business Law at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University and in a LLM (DEA) in International Economic Law at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University. In 2004/2005, he then was student at the College of Europe/Bruges Campus at the Law Department, and received the best thesis award of his department for his work on the European Diplomatic Service. In 2002, he also followed the specific diploma on Comparative Law at the Institute of Comparative Law at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University.

Sami Andoura was born on August 23th, 1980 in Liège (Belgium).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Energy policy

  • ‘Energy security: A missing link between EU energy and foreign policies’, in Handbook of European Security, Ed. by R. Whitman and S. Biscop, Routledge, 2011.
  • ‘Energy cooperation under the Weimar triangle: A springboard for a common European energy policy’, in Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - International policy analysis series, 2011.
  • ‘A modern European external energy policy: From pixelisation to high definition’, in Conference Anthology on the EU in international fora, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) Publication, Nomos, December 2010.
  • ‘Towards a European Energy Community: A Policy Proposal’, with J. Delors, L. Hancher & M. Van der Woude, Notre Europe’s Study 76, April 2010.
  • ‘The European energy policy in quest of a strategic culture’, in Power of Europe, Ed. by S. Biscop and J.J. Anderson, Ashgate 2010.
  • 'A New Energy Policy for Europe: the Need for a New Framework’, Think Global Act European 2010.
  • ‘Europe’s response to global energy challenges’, Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales (AFRI) 2010.
  • The Internal European Energy Market, Franklin Dehousse, Sami Andoura and Renaud Dehin, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n °2, 2007: Towards a real European Energy Policy?
  • Security of supply and the external dimension of a European energy policy?, Sami Andoura, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n °2, 2007: Towards a real European Energy Policy?
European Integration and EU Institutions

External relations of the EU

  • The legal personality of the European Union, Philippe de Schoutheete and Sami Andoura, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LX, n °1, 2007.
  • The legal personality of the EU, the debate which never was, Franklin Dehousse and Sami Andoura, in Ch. Franck - G. Duchenne (dir.), L'Action extérieure de l'Union européenne. Actes de la XIe Chaire Glaverbel d'études européennes (2005-2006), Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia-Bruylant, 2007.
  • The EU's capacity to absorb Turkey, Sami Andoura, November 2005.

EU-Russia relations

PUBLICATIONS AND TRIBUNES TO CONSULT
Contact

Sandoura@notre-europe.eu

Appearance
Towards a European Energy Community: A Policy Proposal
Study | 01/04/2010
Initiated by Jacques Delors, this report is the harvest of the work of the Task Force of high-level European experts to study the feasibility of a European Energy Community. The report was elaborated by Marc van der Woude and Leigh Hancher as co-chairs and Sami Andoura as rapporteur.
Recent appearances
Europe abroad : twenty years after Maastricht, is there anybody there ?
06/01/2012
Twenty years after the Treaty of Maastricht created the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), one remains constantly reminded of how out of touch its initial aims were with the means the treaty deployed. Today, the EU needs more than ever to be more effective, concentrating on a small number of external actions related to targeted priorities, and proportionate with available means. This tribune and its title are drawn from the intervention by Sami Andoura made at the conference organized by ISPI and the Representation of the European Commission in Italy – 14 November 2011.
The EU External Policies in its vicinity: Turkey, the Western Balkans and the other neighbours
20/12/2011
Notre Europe and the European Stability Initiative co-organised a conference in Paris entitled ‘The EU External Policies in its vicinity: Turkey, the Western Balkans and the other neighbours’ in order to assess the performance of the EU two years after the Lisbon Treaty entered into force and following the Arab Spring. Notre Europe proposes a synthesis of the principal elements of analysis drawn out of this conference.
Sami Andoura on Euronews
16/12/2011
Sami Andoura, senior Research Fellow at  Notre Europe, was interviewed on Euronews December 16 2011, on Immigration Issues in Europe. 
"The EU and the World: Shrink or Swim?"
19/10/2011
Article by Sami Andoura and Elvire Fabry,senior researchers Fellow at Notre Europe published by the think tank Carnegie.
Nuclear energy in Europe: what future?
26/05/2011
In light of the fact that the European Commission and the national nuclear safety authorities have reached an agreement on the content of stress tests for all nuclear power plants in Europe, and that the G8 meeting in Deauville will address the issue of nuclear safety, Notre Europe is publishing a Policy Brief on the future of nuclear energy in Europe. The Policy Brief aims to frame the ongoing debate, assessing the current European regulatory framework and analysing the current status of nuclear power in Europe. It also examines the debate on the future of nuclear energy with reference both to the European energy policy and to future decisions that will need to be taken regarding different energy sources in the EU.