The optics of this week’s planned Alaska meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are ...

In person event Since November 2024, Serbia has experienced an impressive wave of anti-government protests. Driven by students and citizens doubling down on their demands while leaving their EU flags ...

In person event Caught between an aggressive Russia and a disengaging US, Europe is ramping up its defence spending. By working through the EU institutions, Member States aim to harmonise standards fo ...

In Person symposium The EU’s effectiveness in the Indo-Pacific relies on accurate contemporary knowledge of the states in the region. To address this need for knowledge, the National Centre for Resear ...

The EU is developing a border management strategy aiming at an “integrated and global response” to the challenges posed by the phenomenon of irregular immigration through the common external borders. ...

CHALLENGE Research Paper No. 11 / 23 pages This paper assesses the implications of the European Commission Communications on the evaluation and future development of FRONTEX (European Agency for the ...

European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes (ENEPRI) Research Report No. 54 / 36 pages This report presents an empirical typology of pension regimes in the European Union, the US, Canada, ...

CHALLENGE Research Paper No. 12 / 27 pages The relation between liberty and security has been highly contestable over the past 10 years in the EU integration process. With the expansion of the EU’s ...

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 ...

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 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 ...