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The ECB has announced a 750-billion-euro purchase programme to fight the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. But like all ECB Programmes in recent years, the new Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) will likely be challenged in court. This policy brief...

Alle Ländern Europas existieren Kommunen. Der Begriff wird jedoch ganz unterschiedlich interpretiert. In dieser Ausgabe werden die kommunalen Ebenen von 21 europäischen Ländern beschrieben. Im Ergebnis tritt eine große Varianz der Strukturen auf. So gibt es bis zu drei...

The report examines how in the face of vast pressures on their asylum processing and reception operations, EU Member States adopted a range of instruments to address long-standing structural weaknesses to their asylum systems and sheds light on a number of innovative...

Unser Stifter Reinhard Mohn, dessen Todestag sich im Oktober 2019 zum zehnten Mal jährte, betonte zum Jahrtausendwechsel: „Internationale Kooperation und Friedenssicherung heißt das politische Gebot der Stunde.“ Bis heute hat diese Aussage nicht an Aktualität verloren. So...

The incapacitation of the Appellate Body in December 2019 was a huge blow to the judicial arm of the WTO. When improving and reforming rule enforcement at the WTO, it is however vital not only to look at the top if the dispute resolution pyramid but equally at the bottom. In...

Currently, industrial policy is experiencing a renaissance in many countries. In Germany and the EU, a debate about costs and benefits of a strategic industrial policy as a response to sustainable innovation and competitiveness is increasingly getting attention. This study...

The Banking Union is one of the most important and ambitious projects launched by the European Union in the last ten years. With supervisory and resolution mechanisms for Eurozone banks now up and running, the current narrative is that most of the work to create the Banking...

Seit dem Jahr 2013 liefert die Studie "D21-Digital-Index" ein umfassendes jährliches Lagebild zur Digitalen Gesellschaft in Deutschland. Sie zeigt auf empirischer Grundlage auf, wie die Gesellschaft die Veränderungen durch die Digitalisierung adaptiert. Die Studie dient...

Geopolitics has returned to vogue, and the EU does not enjoy a monopoly on influence in the Western Balkans. China is the latest player on the scene, and although its economic footprint is still relatively small, Beijing’s growing presence is a new reality that Brussels...

In times of Trump and Brexit, protectionist tendencies seem to be a global trend. The advantages that economic interconnectedness implies are increasingly receding into the background. The calculations of Copenhagen Economics on behalf of Bertelsmann Stiftung show, however,...