Publications

This paperback is published in the context of IN:EX, a three-year project on converging and conflicting ethical values in the internal/external security continuum in Europe, funded by the Security Pro...chevron_right

The proliferation of large-scale databases containing personal information, and the multiple uses to which they can be put can be highly problematic from the perspective of fundamental rights and free...chevron_right

Job quality is a multidimensional concept that can be defined using four main dimensions and measured through indicators such as the so-called ‘Laeken’ indicators. The empirical analysis of job qualit...chevron_right

This CEPS Policy Brief hopes to provide a balanced and concise overview of the development of and concerns surrounding shale gas in the United States, and to explore the extent to which this success s...chevron_right

This study analyzes the economic and political consequences of introducing a tax on the carbon content of imported goods at EU borders and whether such a tax would be compatible with WTO rules.chevron_right

The financial crisis poses an existential challenge to the EU – and has required such huge sums – because it directly implicates the key underlying principle of European governance: the nature of the ...chevron_right

Ever since financial markets appeared to stabilise, the idea of making the financial sector pay for the costs incurred by taxpayers to keep it afloat has gained increasing support among policy-makers ...chevron_right

The case of Greece has ushered in the second phase of the financial crisis, namely that of sovereign default. Members of the euro area were supposed to be shielded from a financial market meltdown. Bu...chevron_right

In his seminal work on international financial crises, Larry Summers wrote that policy-makers facing a crisis tend to go through a process reminiscent of the five stages of grief. The process starts w...chevron_right

On January 15th 2010, Russia became the last of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe to ratify Protocol 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which...chevron_right

The European Council seems to be stuck between the first two stages. At first its position was that no crisis could arise because it (the European Council) was ready to intervene. Now it insists that ...chevron_right

After the eruption of the financial crisis, there was a general consensus that financial markets and rating agencies had singularly failed in giving the right incentives to investors and borrowers. ...chevron_right

The newly, democratically elected President Yanukovich of Ukraine has got off to a spectacularly fast but equally dubious start. First on his diplomacy: his first supposedly symbolic act of foreign po...chevron_right

In general the Austrian long-term care system is a combination of benefits in cash and in kind, with the core part of it a long-term care allowance program at federal and provincial level. Thus, diffe...chevron_right

Denmark’s overall objective for long-term care policy calls for services to be based on the older person’s wants and needs. As far as possible, this approach should ensure continuity in older people’s...chevron_right