The requirements for sustainable action strategies are undergoing fundamental Change as a result of the rapidly increasing complexity of the global economy. Many of the conceptual underpinnings of economic policy-making must be...

A new member state is usually confronted with an anxious question when it takes over the EU Presidency for the first time. “Are they up to the job?” At the end of the Polish Presidency one can heave a sigh of relief and say that...

A year after the start of the Tunisian rebellion, Europe’s southern neighbourhood is in turmoil and in a state of upheaval. It is a paradoxical fact that the revolt by secular groups will bring Islamist parties to power for the...

Ranging from caesarian section to end-of-life care, this report includes 16 different topics and procedures and illuminates the bandwidth and magnitude of regional variations in the German health care system.

The outbreak of the Greek crisis has prompted the European Union to set about designing a comprehensive kind of economic governance architecture in which greater coordination of economic and fiscal policy will underpin and support...

Everyone is talking about leadership but what are the common approaches, camps, and theories? What is current, what are the new classics, and what is obsolete? The crisis and the latest Web 2.0 developments have not rendered the...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) should expand its global role in combating climate change. This new role should primarily focus on acting as a matchmaker among regions, governments,...

The Arab Spring must not be allowed to run out of steam. The sheer stay-ing power of the old regimes and important social issues are threatening to slow down or even to stifle the revolutions, rebellions and nascent reforms. It is...