Publications

Geopolitical risks to future gas supplies from source countries to the EU exist both in theory and in reality, but two major types of risks need to be seriously taken into account: source risks and tr...chevron_right

There is no easy and immediate connection between resource nationalism or political instability and global supply of oil and gas. This is emphatically not because political developments are irrelevant...chevron_right

This paper presents an overview of the different opinions that have been blocking the closure of the office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (OHR), an international body overseeing...chevron_right

In this policy brief, Roderick Kefferpütz takes a look at China’s long march towards dominance of the all-important rare earths market and, ahead of the European Commission’s publication of its Raw Ma...chevron_right

This paper summarizes the findings of work package 5.3 of the SECURE project, with regard to the role of carbon capture, transport and storage (CCTS) for the future European supply security of coal.chevron_right

In this paper, the authors present a mixed integer, multi-period, cost-minimizing model for a carbon capture, transport and storage (CCTS) network in Europe. The results indicate that CCTS can theoret...chevron_right

Roger Ailes, a former advisor to Ronald Reagan, recalls in his book an intriguing practice of the ancient Romans: when they finished building a bridge or an arch, they enforced accountability by placi...chevron_right

This working paper analyses the flow of Roma migrants, in particular asylum-seekers, from the Czech Republic and Hungary to Canada in 1996–2010. Although the fate of the Roma is at the centre of event...chevron_right

Forecasts about the Mediterranean in terms of economic, social and human development are premised on a critical assumption: the continuation, mutatis mutandis, of the status quo in political and gover...chevron_right

France and Germany have agreed in Deauville to propose, inter alia, that the EU treaties be amended to provide for the sanction of countries whose government budgets exceed EU deficit or debt limits b...chevron_right

After the Lehman experience, the official policy line in Europe is that liquidation must now be avoided at all costs. This applies in particular to sovereigns and their banks. How is this policy impl...chevron_right

The decision to undertake a full, wide-ranging review of EU spending and resources was taken by the Heads of State meeting in a European Council summit in December 2005, to serve as the basis for disc...chevron_right

The CAP 2020 reform philosophy has finally seen the light of day, albeit only in leaked form. A carefully drafted document contains the usual CAP rhetoric punctuated by some apparently strong deviatio...chevron_right

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the foundations of several decades of modern and innovative financial systems have suffered serious damage. This has triggered multiple state interventions an...chevron_right

In standard textbooks on macroeconomics, the competitiveness of a country is measured by its relative prices or relative production costs with respect to those in another country, adjusted by the nomi...chevron_right