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This report addresses the amendment of the Council Decision that established the European External Action Service. In particular, it sheds light on possible adjustments in how the Decision ‘à droit co...chevron_right

This policy brief discusses the November 13, 2013 announcement by the European Commission that Germany is running an excessive current account surplus as part of a European alert mechanism to protect ...chevron_right

This paper assesses the large-scale surveillance practices of a selection of EU member states, including the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The authors find that four of these states...chevron_right

This commentary discusses the EU's foreign policy towards Egypt and the direction this policy should take following the removal of President Mohamed Morsi. The author argues that the EU should try to ...chevron_right

This paper examines the relationship between fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law in the EU and the challenges of strengthening EU competences in these areas. It concludes by proposing th...chevron_right

This report assesses the labor market for people over 50 in Belgium and looks at the initiatives in place to support "active aging" in the country. It contributes to a series of country reports that a...chevron_right

This paper examines the national and private initiatives which allow the elderly to continue participating in the Finnish labor market. The authors find that although Finland lags behind in some areas...chevron_right

This paper examines the role of national parliaments in improving democratic legitimacy in the EU. The first section looks into the difficulty of defining and addressing the question of the democratic...chevron_right

This paper analyzes the attractiveness of the EU’s Blue Card Directive, the flagship of the EU’s labor immigration policy for ‘highly qualified’ immigrant workers from outside the EU. The author argue...chevron_right

This commentary argues that austerity in the eurozone has left a legacy of unsustainable debt that will test the political resilience of the debtor countries and that the improvement in the area's GDP...chevron_right

This commentary argues that a lasting peace agreement cannot be reached in the Middle East if world powers stick to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement in which France and the UK divided up the region with...chevron_right

This brief examines how effective the EU-Eastern Partnership Parliamentary Assembly (EuroNest PA) is at accelerating political and economic integration between the EU and its Eastern partners. The aut...chevron_right

This paper is the first in a series for a CEPS-EPIN project entitled "The British Question and the Search for a Fresh European Narrative." It is pegged on an exercise by the British Government to revi...chevron_right

This paper provides an overview of academic literature and EU research on the criminalization of migration in Europe. In particular, it analyses discursive criminalization, the use of criminal law for...chevron_right

This paper assesses China’s impact on the economic growth of resource-rich countries since it joined the WTO in December 2001. The authors find that the Chinese appetite for commodities accounts for o...chevron_right