The EU budget imposes a considerable number of conditionalities on the Member States in use of the EU budget, and more are being imposed in the next Multiannual Financial Framework. This study reviews ...

This paper assesses the implications of the European Commission Communications on the evaluation and future development of FRONTEX (European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the ...

European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes (ENEPRI) Research Report No. 54 / 36 pages This report presents an empirical typology of pension regimes in the European Union, the US, Canada, ...

Europe is facing a defining moment in its approach to science, research and innovation. As geopolitical tensions mount and ...

The relation between liberty and security has been highly contestable over the past 10 years in the EU integration process. With the expansion of the EU’s powers into domains falling within the scope ...

This is the fourth in a series of annual reports produced by the CEPS Macroeconomic Policy Group (MPG), composed of distinguished economists from throughout Europe who have undertaken to carry out ...

Georgia and Serbia, both candidate countries for EU membership, have seen large waves of civic mobilisation in recent months.

Not all countries are able (or willing) to take sides in the increasingly tense US-China rivalry and this might create new ...

The Barcelona process so far has been a valuable systemic/institutional advance in Euro-Med relations and a confidence-building measure on a large scale.

The world has changed in many ways since 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, along some critical axes, both from an economic and emissions points of view. Moreover, and this cannot be quantified ...

Following the amendments put forward by the European Parliament in February, a good compromise is in sight to move forward on the Commission’s proposal for a Services Directive, which is intended to ...