Publications

In this report, Steven Blockmans and Sophia Russack provide concrete recommendations on how the EU should reform its internal affairs and thereby ensure that it is worthy of the continued support of its members. The proposals specifically focus on security and justice issues, socio-economic measures, and monetary policy.chevron_right

This commentary focuses on the limited anti-corruption reforms that have occurred in post-Euromaidan Ukraine. The lack of needed and systemic change is attributable to a weak state and the seizing of anti-corruption institutions, such as...chevron_right

After focusing on the recent and divided literature on the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), this volume identifies the factors that explain its (lack of) effectiveness and coherence. As part of its review, the study also identifies important gaps where further ENP research is needed.chevron_right

This paper analyzes Moldovan President Dodon’s hostility towards the Association Agreement with the EU – an agreement which has been in force since July 2016 and which grants his country access to the European market. Basically, the pro-Russia Dodon wants to...chevron_right

The 2015-2016 refugee crisis revealed multiple gaps in the EU’s policies and approaches towards migration, asylum seekers and its maritime and land-based borders, especially in the Mediterranean region. In response to these problems, this volume examines…chevron_right

This brief speculates on the possible content of a Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) between the UK and the EU, which would be based on the White Paper the British government released on 2 February 2017. On the basis of this paper, which advocates...chevron_right

This comprehensive examination of energy prices in the EU concentrates on five energy-intensive industries, including refineries, steel, aluminum and more. For each of these sectors, the study reviews energy price developments, with a particular emphasis on energy price structures and levels.chevron_right

This paper analyzes the EU’s migration policies towards Asia, with a particular emphasis on China, India, the Philippines and Thailand. It concludes that new, less restrictive migration agreements, including short-term Schengen visas, would provide added economic benefits for Europe.chevron_right

What goals did Prime Minister Theresa May lay out in her January 2017 speech on the UK’s pending departure from the EU? Seemingly, her primary aim is to maximize the UK’s access to the European Single Market through a Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement...chevron_right

This statistics-laden report lays waste to the common perception that trying to integrate migrants is a huge, sometimes even insurmountable challenge to societies in the EU. The data on both first and second generation migrants collected by Eurostat and analyzed in the report clearly show that…chevron_right

Since a European fiscal union could assume various guises, this paper first pinpoints the five components it should have. It then looks at the fiscal union modules that already exist in Europe’s economic and monetary union (EMU), and then critically analyses the main arguments for and against…chevron_right

This commentary analyzes "Scotland's Place in Europe," the December 2016 White Paper which sets out the Scottish Government's desire to join the European single market and the customs union as part of the Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU. Although the proposals...chevron_right

This text contemplates what impact the incoming Trump administration’s climate policies might have on the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.chevron_right

Given the fraught security climate in and around Europe, the looming Brexit, and the unpredictability injected into US foreign policy by the election of Donald Trump, the European Council recently endorsed a “winter package” to strengthen the EU’s...chevron_right

Given the large numbers of refugees who entered Europe in 2015, this paper looks back at the experiences of five Western European countries – Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden – that integrated Bosnian refugees into their labor markets in the early 1990s. The overall results of the study show that 1) the integration process was a success; 2) under favorable integration policies and labor market conditions, immigrant employment rates...chevron_right