What can we learn from productivity dynamics over the crisis episode in the EU?
While all EU economies witnessed a sharp decline in output during the financial crisis, the peripheral EU countries were particularly hard hit.
The challenge of social cohesion: Addressing long-term consequences of the 2015 refugee crisis for Europe
This Policy Brief argues that multidimensional policies are needed to tackle the looming societal challenges. Most importantly, the public discourse has to be altered and investment in refugees should be increased.
The refugee crisis and the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa
This Policy Brief wants to put things into persepective and suggests a new European approach to dealing with refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Brexit Six Months On: waiting for Godot
Half a year after the referendum on UK membership, little tangible has emerged aside from a flow of platitudes, leaked memos and the odd speech.
Central Europe and the Refugee Question:
The uncoordinated approaches in Central Europe in dealing with the increased arrivals of refugees during summer and autumn of 2015 have put the region into the spotlight of public attention.
Deciphering the Paris Agreement on Climate Policy: What might be the implications for the EU?
In retrospect the most relevant outcome of the Paris Climate Conference might be that there is an agreement at all.
The European Dimension in Education: a new strategy to an ancient theme
The European Union must reinvent itself in one of the weakest institutional, political and social moments of its recent history.
EU Enlargement in troubled times? Adapting to new realities and drawing lessons from democratisation failures
Enlargement was once considered the most successful external policy of the European Union. But the sparse progress recorded in the Western Balkans in the past few years and their overall democratic backsliding…
An economic assessment of asylum seeker inflows
Europe is facing an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers. This has put considerable strains on several Member States, both transit and destination countries, that have seen their capacity to receive them tested…