Georgia and Serbia, both candidate countries for EU membership, have seen large waves of civic mobilisation in recent months.

Not all countries are able (or willing) to take sides in the increasingly tense US-China rivalry and this might create new ...

Serbia has experienced a huge wave of anti-government protests. As students and citizens continue to pump up the situation by ...

The Barcelona process so far has been a valuable systemic/institutional advance in Euro-Med relations and a confidence-building measure on a large scale.

The outcome of a research project carried out by CEPS and the Economics and Foreign Policy Forum (EFPF) of Istanbul, this book examines in detail the challenges and opportunities that would arise with ...

The world has changed in many ways since 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, along some critical axes, both from an economic and emissions points of view. Moreover, and this cannot be quantified ...

Following the amendments put forward by the European Parliament in February, a good compromise is in sight to move forward on the Commission’s proposal for a Services Directive, which is intended to ...

The EU seeks to build a comprehensive immigration policy in which legally residing non-EU nationals, referred to as third-country nationals (TCNs), should be treated fairly and in a non-discriminatory ...

Artificial Intelligence is showing enormous promise for improving our daily life. Countless applications in many sectors of the economy are already being developed and more can be expected over the ...

The financial crisis had a significant impact on the levels of trust that citizens place in the system and its institutions. Recent data from Eurobarometer show a significant fall in confidence on the ...

European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes (ENEPRI) Working Paper No. 29, 23 pages Among the working-age population, one of the most damaging individual experiences is unemployment. Many ...

Regulation has for a long time been considered mainly as an obstacle to innovation, especially with respect to rules that create so-called “red tape”, or administrative burdens. But academics have ...