Publications

The euro area is facing a challenge with Greece in danger of falling into sovereign default and some of its other members, the so-called 'GIPSY' nations, finding themselves in serious financial distre...chevron_right

This paper first briefly reviews recent developments in the EU asset management industry, followed by a discussion of the regulatory framework for asset management and the challenges ahead. We focus p...chevron_right

The ongoing crisis affecting Greece has reached a delicate point. Greece can obtain further funding from financial markets, but it finds that the interest rate it has to pay (6.5% for ten-year bonds) ...chevron_right

In the last few years, the EU has suffered from an internal market fatigue. Although inevitably an evergreen on the Union's hit list, the single market became more and more relegated to low-key EU rou...chevron_right

This report is based on discussions in a Task Force on Bank Crisis Resolution, which was formed jointly by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), an independent policy research institute in Br...chevron_right

The crisis that started in Greece has given birth to a new crisis of the eurozone as a whole. There is no doubt that the major responsibility rests with the Greek authorities who mismanaged their econ...chevron_right

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December taught many lessons to the participating stakeholders. The European Union learned that a choir of European leaders could not si...chevron_right

This Working Document examines the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) as an attempt by the European Union to transform its external borders and to create an area outside its boundaries that constitut...chevron_right

It has been widely argued that since the cold war, there has been a shift in the structure of international relations from a bipolar to a multipolar system. This transformation has in turn had an imme...chevron_right

This Working Document complements the CEPS Policy Brief, Understanding India’s climate agenda, and elaborates on three key issues related to the country’s energy challenges: access to energy, the fut...chevron_right

This paper describes the key economic variables and mechanisms that will determine the adjustment process in those euro area countries now under financial market pressure (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, S...chevron_right

Different theoretical strands can be found in academic literature for explaining the growing importance of private security. Yet most authors agree that changes in security trends typically emerge as ...chevron_right

With the new Lisbon Treaty coming into force on 1 December and the formation of a new European Commission headed by the – finally – reappointed Barroso, one must now ask whether the character of the E...chevron_right

Financial markets have coined a new term to sum up troubled eurozone states: the 'Pigs'. Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain have found their bonds moving together, with Greece and its troubles a bell...chevron_right

The EU's Central Asia strategy was introduced in 2007 in order to upgrade the EU's cooperation with the five states of the region. The political context at that time was dominated by concerns in the E...chevron_right