European Commission, (2017), “White Paper on the future of Europe: Avenues for unity for the EU at 27”, 1 Μαρτίου As we prepare to mark the 60th anniversary of the EU, we look back on a peace spanning seven decades and on an enlarged Union of 500 million citizens living in freedom in one of the world’s most prosperous economies. At the same time, the EU has to look forward …Read More

CEPS Task Force, (2017), “Regroup and Reform: Ideas for a more responsive and effective European Union”, CEPS Series: Task Force Report, Φεβρουάριος The report offers concrete recommendations for how the Union can show added value to European citizens in the areas of security and justice, socio-economics and monetary policy – recommendations that will help reform the workings of the Union and ensure that it is worthy of the continuing confidence of its …Read More

Buti, Marco, Pichelmann, Karl, (2017), “European integration and populism: Addressing Dahrendorf’s quandary”, VoxEu, 22 Φεβρουαρίου With its current competences lacking the ability to address distribution effects, the EU is seen as an agent of globalisation rather than a response to it.  At the same time, it is charged with undermining national autonomy, identity, and control. This column sets out five guiding principles for policy articulation at the EU level for …Read More

Demertzis, Maria, Sapir, Andre, Wolff, Guntram B., (2017), “Europe in a new world order”, Bruegel, 17 Φεβρουαρίου In this paper the authors explore what the EU’s strategic reaction should be to US diminishing giant policies, and the EU’s role in a world of declining hegemony and shifting balances. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις Kamkhaji, Jonathan C., Radaelli, Claudio M., (2016), “Crisis, learning and policy change in the European Union”, Journal of European Public Policy, 20 Απριλίου …Read More

Dabrowski, Marek, (2017), “How to balance sovereignty and integration in a voluntary EU”, Bruegel, 12 Ιανουαρίου The principle of voluntary membership is a central value of the EU project, but it is also a source of many of its problems. How can the member states address those problems in order to repair the EU’s integration architecture? The European Union and its institutions are often criticised for their supposed ineffectiveness, slowness …Read More

Schmieding, Holger, (2017), “Ο μεγαλύτερος πολιτικός κίνδυνος του 2017 για την Ευρωζώνη είναι η Ιταλία”, Καθημερινή, 11 Ιανουαρίου Μεταξύ των μελών της Ευρωζώνης, η Ιταλία προκαλεί τον μεγαλύτερο πολιτικό κίνδυνο για το 2017, γεγονός που μπορεί να αποσταθεροποιήσει την ήδη εύθραυστη οικονομία της. Από την εμφάνιση αλλά και την πτώση του πρώην πρωθυπουργού Μπερλουσκόνι, η Ιταλία δεν έχει πλέον κάποια δυνατή αλλά και αξιόπιστη κεντροδεξιά δύναμη που μπορεί να εμφανιστεί …Read More