CEPS Policy Briefs
The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) is an independent policy research institute dedicated to producing sound policy research leading to constructive solutions to the challenges facing Europe today. The CEPS Policy Briefs provide brief analyses of current European public policy questions.
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- Armaments Duplication in Europe: A Quantitative Assessment
- Deploying the Energy Incentive: Reinforcing EU Integration in South-East Europe
- Open Season for Data Fishing on the Web
- E3+3 Coercive Diplomacy Towards Iran
- A Viable Alternative to Basel III Prudential Capital Rules
- A Copernican Turn for Banking Union
- Banking Union with a Sovereign Virus
- The New Financial Regulatory Paradigm
- Monetary Policy and Banking Supervision
- Commission v Gazprom: The Antitrust Clash of the Decade?
- Unleashing Competition in EU Business Services
- Banking Union: A Federal Model for the European Union with Prompt Corrective Action
- The EU’s Promotion of External Democracy
- A European Deposit Insurance and Resolution Fund
- A Sovereign Wealth Fund to Lift Germany’s Curse of Excess Savings
- Can Italy and Spain Survive Rates of 6-7%?
- Unholy Compromise in the Eurozone and How to Right It
- Pre-empting Technical Barriers in the Single Market
- Central Banks in Times of Crisis: The FED vs the ECB
- Implementing Basel III in Europe: Diagnosis and Avenues for Improvement
- An Agenda for the European Council
- Moving the EU from a Laggard to a Leader in Democracy Assistance
- 'Grexit': Who Would Pay for It?
- Europe's Recurrent Employment Problems
- How to Negotiate under Co-decision in the EU
- The Euro Crisis: Implications for the Internal Market and Harmonisation of Corporate Taxes
- In Search of Symmetry in the Eurozone
- The Spanish Hangover
- Macroeconomic Imbalances in the Euro Area
- Stepping up Growth Policies
- Liquidity in Times of Crisis: Even the ESM Needs It
- Renewables and the EU Internal Electricity Market
- Sector-Specific Activities as the Driving Force Towards a Low-Carbon Economy
- Time for a Common European Effort on Raw Materials
- Misguided Policies Risk Breaking up the Eurozone and the EU
- Agreement Needed on Liquidity Provision to Restore Confidence in the Eurozone
- Speculative Attacks Within or Outside a Monetary Union
- EU Federalism in Crisis
- A Call to Members of the European Parliament
- US Climate Change Policy Efforts
- How Should Support for Climate-Friendly Technologies be Designed?
- Spanish Constitutional Reform
- Partial Sovereign Bond Insurance by the Eurozone
- The Eurozone Debt Crisis: From its Origins to a Way Forward
- Only a More Active ECB Can Solve the Euro Crisis
- Britain, Ireland and Schengen
- Target2 Unlimited
- The General Affairs Council
- Space Observation Systems
- The EU-Russia Summit in Nizhny Novgorod
- External Versus Domestic Debt in the Euro Crisis
- A New Framework for Euro-Med Cooperation on Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Support
- Lobbying the European Parliament: A Necessary Evil
- The EU's Response to the Financial Crisis
- Can the Eurozone Countries Still Live Together Happily Ever After?
- Restoring Financial Stability in the Euro Area
- Spillovers from the Arab Revolts
- On the Tasks of the European Stability Mechanism
- The Case for 'More Single Market'
- Debt Reduction Without Default?
- How to Assess a Rotating Presidency of the Council Under New Lisbon Rules
- Single eComms Market? No Such Thing…
- A Less Punishing, More Forgiving Approach to the Debt Crisis in the Eurozone
- The EU Should Not Shy Away from Setting CO2-related Targets for Transport
- A Renewed Political Deal for Sustainable Growth Within the Eurozone and the EU
- The Transformational Impact of EMU and the Global Financial Crisis
- Europe's Coal Supply Security
- Security of Europe's Gas Supply
- Geopolitical Threats to Oil and the Functioning of the International Oil Market
- Europe's Gas Supply Security
- The Bosnian Hiatus
- Unearthing China's Rare Earths Strategy
- The European Council Summit and the Political Economics of the EMU Crisis
- From Lisbon to Deauville
- How to Change the EU Treaties
- What Kind of Governance for the Eurozone?
- Fiscal Policy Coordination and Competitiveness Surveillance
- Looking Afresh at the External Representation of the EU in the International Arena, Post-Lisbon
- Europe 2020 and the Financial System
- Shale Fever: Replicating the US Gas Revolution in the EU?
- How to Deal With Sovereign Default in Europe
- From National to European Regulation
- Lessons from the Asian Monetary Fund for the European Monetary Fund
- Single Voice, Single Chair?
- Understanding India's Climate Agenda
- On Thin Ice? (Mis)interpreting Russian Policy in the High North
- Crisis in the Eurozone and How to Deal With It
- The Taxation of Multinational Enterprises in the European Union
- Towards a Euro(pean) Monetary Fund
- The Impact of the Crisis on the Real Economy
- Two New Leaders in Search of a Job Description
- Re-setting the Eastern Partnership in Moldova
- Is REACH Going Well?
- The Treaty of Lisbon and the Czech Constitutional Court
- Towards the Next Phase of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
- The Road Ahead After de Larosière
- Why Europe Will Suffer More
- Time for Action: Immediate Priorities for the Next European Commission
- Russian Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis
- A New Two-Pillar Strategy for the ECB
- The Financing of the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF)
- Global Imbalances and the Accumulation of Risk
- Reaching the 2°C Target
- National and EU-Level Estimates of Energy Supply Externalities
- Moldova's 'Wannabe Democracy' is Worth Rescuing
- Estimating Historical Energy Security Costs
- Learning from the Crisis: A Market Approach to Securing European Natural Gas Supplies
- Sustainable and Adequate Pensions
- The Case for a Gas Transit Consortium in Ukraine
- On the Way to Copenhagen via Poznań
- The Banking Crisis
- Climate Governance Post-2012: Options for EU Policy-Making
- Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty: Quo Vadis?
- Recalibrating EU Policy Towards the Western Balkans
- The Demonstration Phase for Carbon Capture and Storage
- Ten Recommendations on Freedom, Security and Justice for the European Parliament Elections
- The French Presidency’s European Pact on Immigration and Asylum
- Closing the Community Deficit in the EU
- Should Central Banks Target Stock Prices
- Al Qaeda in the West as a Youth Movement
- Post-Mortem on Europe's First War of the 21st Century
- Essential Steps for the European Union After the "No" Votes in France, the Netherlands & Ireland
- Is Social Europe Fit for Globalisation?
- The Future of European Electricity
- What Next? How to Save the Treaty of Lisbon
- Is the League of Democracies a Bad Idea?
- Adaptation to Climate Change
- Time to Think of a Strategic Bargain with Russia
- A New Budget for the European Union?
- Checks and Balances: Dividing the Directorate General for Justice, Freedom and Security in Two, an Interior and a Justice Branch
- Iceland on the Brink?
- What Future for the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?
- Making Sense of Sarkozy's Union for the Mediterranean
- The Commission's New Border Package
- What Lessons Can Be Learned From the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
- The EU's Limited Response to Belarus' Pseudo "New Foreign Policy"
- What Do We Know About the Economics of Adaptation?
- Adaptation and Mainstreamnig of EU Climate Change Policy
- The New EU Strategy Towards Central Asia
- The Treaty of Lisbon – How Much "Constitution" is Left?
- EU Policy on Labour Migration
- The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
- Kosovo and the Principles of Just Secession
- Kosovo Merits "Special Status as Part of the EU"
- The EU Reform Treaty & the Competition Protocol
- The Reform Treaty & Justice and Home Affairs
- An EU Framework on Sanctions Against Employers of Irregular Immigrants
- Security Challenges in Central Asia: Implications for the EU's Engagement Strategy
- The EU and Uzbekistan: Where to Go from Here?
- Decentralisation of Serbia: The Minority Dimension
- What Went Wrong? The Impact of Western Policies Towards Hamas and Hizbollah
- Democratization and Human Rights in Central Asia: Problems, Development Prospects and the Role of the International Community
- The External Dimension of EU Citizenship
- What Will it Take to Resolve the Dispute in Western Sahara?
- Tajikistan and the EU
- Terrorism, Borders and Migration
- Will the European Council end the institutional deadlock in the EU?
- Turkmenistan in Transition
- Building Stronger Ties, Meeting New Challenges: The European Union’s Strategic Role in Central Asia
- Inquiry into the EU-US Passenger Name Record Agreement
- Merging Security from the Two-Level Game: Inserting the Treaty of Prüm into EU Law?
- European Neighbourhood Policy Two Years On
- Russian-Algerian cooperation and the "gas OPEC"
- Making the EU Citizens' Agenda Work
- Don’t Blame Globalisation for the Squeezing of the Middle Class
- The Presevo Valley of Southern Serbia alongside Kosovo
- Decision-Making in the Enlarged Council of Ministers
- Looking for the Cure-All? Targets and the EU’s New Energy Strategy
- Confronting Crisis in the European Union
- The Coming of the Russian Gas Deficit
- Russia’s Soft Power Ambitions
- France’s Draft Law on the Armenian Genocide
- Just what is this ‘absorption capacity’ of the European Union?
- What Should the European Union Do Next in the Middle East?
- The Fall of Doha and the Rise of Regionalism?
- The Political Life of Data: The ECJ Decision on the PNR Agreement between the EU and the US
- 'Outsourcing' de facto Statehood: Russia and the Secessionist Entities in Georgia and Moldova
- Closing a Deal on Doha: Closer Than We Might Think?
- The EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement: The Implications for Trade in Agriculture
- European Financial System Governance
- A Synergy for Black Sea Regional Cooperation: Guidelines for an EU Initiative
- Trail to Failure: History of the Constitutional Rejection and Implications for the Future
- A New Agreement Between the EU and Russia: Why, What and When?
- Bulgaria and Romania's Accession to the EU: Postponement, Safeguards and the Rule of Law
- The Commission's White Paper on Communication
- Political Integration in Europe and America: Towards a Madisonian Model for Europe
- What Could be Saved from the European Constitution if Ratification Fails? The Problems with a ‘Plan B’
- Fixing the Services Directive
- Confidence Through Compliance in Emissions Trading Markets
- What Should the Community of Democratic Choice Do?
- What can European Leaders Learn from Koizumi?
- It's a long way to Copenhagen: Turkey's Membership of and Convergence with the European Union
- From Neighbourhood to Integration Policy: Are there concrete alternatives to enlargement?
- The US Administration's 'Advanced Energy Initiative': New programmes and more funding or old programmes and less funding?
- What Values for Europe? The Ten Commandments
- Economic Values and Dynamism in the EU Economy
- Employment and Competitiveness: The Key Role of Education
- Deadlock Avoided, but Sense of Mission Lost? The Enlarged EU and its Uncertain Constitution
- The Game's not over yet for the Capital Requirements Directive
- Security Implications of Russian Energy Policies
- The Food Aid Debate in Trade and Development
- Who Finances the Queen's CAP payments? The CAP as a dooH niboR Scheme
- Industry Location and Climate Change Policy-Making in the United States
- Technology in a Post-2012 Transatlantic Perspective
- An Interim Plan for South-East Europe: Customs Union with the EU and a Regional Schengen for the Free Movement of People
- Capital Adequacy vs. Liquidity Requirements in Banking Supervision in the EU
- Is the IMF Business Model Still Valid?
- The New Capital Requirements Directive: What are the Missing Pieces to the Puzzle?
- Parties of Power as Roadblock to Democracy: The Cases of Ukraine and Egypt
- The EU's Fight Against International Terrorism: Security Problems, Insecure Solutions
- The Black Sea as Epicentre of the Aftershocks of the EU's Earthquake
- Egypt's Moment of Reform: A Reality or an Illusion?
- Climate Change in the US Government Budget
- Plan B
- The Real Budget Battle
- Should Ratification Proceed? An Assessment of Different Options After the Failed Referenda
- EU-Russia – Four Common Spaces and the Proliferation of the Fuzzy
- The Europeanisation of the Transnistrian Conflict
- Economic Aspects of Turkey’s Quest for EU Membership
- A Spreading Danger: Time for a New Policy Towards Chechnya
- Protection of Personal Data and Citizens' Rights of Privacy in the Fight Against the Financing of Terrorism
- Improving the Climate: Will the New Constitution Strengthen EU Performance in International Climate Negotiations?
- A Better Budget for the European Union: More Value for Money, More Money for Value
- The Impact of Turkey's Membership on EU Voting
- Ukraine and EU After the Orange Revolution
- Vade Mecum for the Next Enlargements of the European Union
- Europeanisation and Conflict Resolution: Testing an Analytical Framework
- The Dog that Lost Its Bark: The Commission and the Stability Pact
- Is Ukraine Turning Away from Europe?
- R&D in the EU: Can the Open Method of Coordination Succeed in Closing the Gap?
- After the EU Elections, Before the Constitution Referenda, Can the EU Communicate Better?
- The European Productivity Slowdown: Causes and Implications
- Council Voting in the Constitutional Treaty: Devil in the Details
- The EU-Russia-US Triangle
- Winners and Losers under Various Dual-Majority Voting Rules for the EU’s Council of Ministers
- Has Turkey Fulfilled the Copenhagen Political Criteria?
- Enlargement: A Process Rather Than a Point in Time
- Headscarves, Skull Caps, and Crosses: Is the Proposed French Ban Safe From European Legal Challenge?
- Three Theses for the New Commission President
- Judicial Cooperation and the European Arrest Warrant – A Good Testing Ground for Mutual Recognition in an Enlarged EU?
- Can Europe Deliver Growth? The Sapir Report and Beyond
- The Draft Constitutional Treaty's Voting Reform Dilemma
- The Civil False Claims Act: Using Lincoln's Law to Protect the European Community Budget
- Maintaining Security within Borders: Towards a Permanent State of Emergency in the EU?
- Institutionalising the Wider Europe
- Reform of Corporate Governance in the EU
- Reform of the EU Institutions: Implications for the EU's Performance in Climate Negotiations
- The Shaping of a Policy Framework for the Wider Europe
- Decision-Making and the Constitutional Treaty: Will the IGC Discard Giscard?
- Where is the Transatlantic Divide in Public Opinion on Climate Change Issues?
- The Deployment of Multinational Military Formations: Taking Political Institutions into Account
- Caucasus Revisited
- Optimizing the Mechanism for 'Enhanced Cooperation' Within the EU: Reccomendations for the Constitutional Treaty
- Reforming the Composition of the ECB Governing Council in View of Enlargement: An Opportunity Missed!
- Constitutionalising the Open Method of Coordination - What Should the Convention Propose?
- A Public Stability Pact for Public Debt?
- Enhancing the Effectiveness of the EU's Foreign and Defence Policies
- The Kyoto Protocol and the WTO: Institutional Evolution and Adaptation
- The Wider Europe as the European Union's Friendly Monroe Doctrine
- Changing Conceptions of Security and their Implications for EU Justice and Home Affairs Cooperation
- Conflict Resolution for Moldova and Transdniestria through Federalisation?
- The World Trading System: In Dire Need of Reform
- Georgia's Pankisi Gorge: Russian, US and European Connections
- Budgetary Implications of Enlargement: Agriculture
- Supervising the European Financial System
- Europe as a Global Economic Actor
- The European Union: Teleology and some Challenges of the Eastern Enlargement
- The Application of Justice and Home Affairs and the Position of Minorities: The Case of Hungary
- The Schengen Challenge and its Balkan Dimensions
- Russia's Engagement with Justice and Home Affairs: A Question of Mutual Trust
- Russia and the EU: The Kaliningrad Dilemma
- Border Countries in an Enlarging Union: Some Reflections Based on the Italian Experience
- Basel II: The Remaining Issues
- Infringement of the European Convention on Human Rights by Belgium
- The Convention on the Future of the EU
- The Assignment of Tasks in an Evolving European Union
- Ensuring a Generous European Asylum Policy for Those in Need of International Protection
- Issues for Europe - Post 11 September
- Our Future Southeastern Turkish Frontiers
- Friendly Schengen Borderland Policy on the New Borders of an Enlarged EU and its Neighbours
- Accommodating Turkey in ESDP
- On the Forming and Reforming of Stability Pacts from the Balkans to the Caucasus
- Five Years to the Euro for the CEE-3?
- Health not Wealth
- Reinventing the Climate Negotiations: An Analysis of COP6
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