Publications

On 20 December 2010 the Ukrainian prosecutor charged former Prime Minister, Yulia Timoshenko, with abuse of office, and her trial began in Kiev in June 2011. Ms Timoshenko has asked the European Court...chevron_right

In this commentary, the author argues that public debates about the EU have come too late in the Netherlands, and have been conducted with insufficient depth. As a result, the Dutch public has remaine...chevron_right

In this commentary, the author compares Greece's debt problems to the Argentine experience of 2001-2.chevron_right

This article addresses the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), founded in 2001 to confront the endogenous security challenges from the “three evil forces” of terrorism, separatism and extremism w...chevron_right

This article discusses the EU assistance to Central Asia. The author evaluates the EU Presidency’s development meeting that took place in Sopot, Poland, in July 2011.chevron_right

For the last two decades, the MED 11 countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey) have recorded the highest growth rat...chevron_right

This commentary presents a snapshot of the current status of the household credit market, in order to provide insights and a basis for these questions. By looking at the development of various kinds o...chevron_right

Conceptually, 'Global Matrix' advances a research agenda for examining the stance of major world actors on the key policy dimensions to world politics in a systematic and structured inter-disciplinary...chevron_right

In this paper, the authors argue that reforming the EU's General Affairs Council (GAC) can bring it to the center of European Council proceedings and address a number of problems in the current EU ins...chevron_right

This paper analyzes the implications of a continued divergence of TARGET2 balances for monetary policy in the euro area. It also offers a discussion on three alternatives for the ECB to absorb excess ...chevron_right

This policy brief was produced under the auspices of the ANCIEN project (Assessing Needs of Care in European Nations), which focuses on the future of longterm care for the elderly in Europe. The repor...chevron_right

This policy brief looks at where Kyrgyzstan now stands, between interethnic conflict and the forthcoming presidential elections on 30 October 2011. Possible scenarios range from the establishment of t...chevron_right

In this brief, the authors recommend that the EU and the member countries of the European Space Agency (ESA) consider expanding the operational capabilities of the ESA to ensure that it has the capaci...chevron_right

The large-scale sale of public assets by the Greek government is the latest straw to which policy-makers are desperately trying to clutch, as the Greek debt saga threatens to drag down the European ...chevron_right

This brief analyzes the state of EU–Russian relations as seen from the vantage point of the summit held on June 9-10 2011 in Nizhny Novgorod. The authors describe the political context in which the su...chevron_right