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Even in the years before the so-called Euromaidan protests, a number of factors – dissatisfaction with the political situation, rampant corruption and generally low living standards – were resulting in migration outflows from Ukraine among significant segments of the...

Turkey is, on the one hand, the country of origin for Kurdish refugees who have left the country as a result of fighting between the Turkish army and the PKK. On the other hand, Turkey is primarily a transit country for migrants and refugees from the neighboring nations of...

Civil war has been raging in Syria since 2011. As a result, hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been displaced, Islamist terror is spreading and the country’s system of government is collapsing. Our Middle East expert, Christian-Peter Hanelt, examines the current...

The Baltic states, being off-centre from the European Union, too small to have a big influence on the majority voting in the EU-Council and too far away to go there as a tourist for the weekend, are generally very unknown EU partners. Their voice gets through only in such...

Der EU-Gipfel in dieser Woche muss auch eine Entscheidung darüber treffen, aus welchen Töpfen die €3 Mrd. für den „Türkei-Flüchtlings-Fonds“ gespeist werden sollen. Die EU-Kommission will höchstens eine Milliarde bereitstellen und fordert die Mitgliedstaaten auf, den Rest...

A fitting decision, and yet, it remains a surprising one; by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet in December 2015, the Nobel Committee honored the four main driving forces in Tunisian civil society: the employers’ association UTICA , the...

The Polish people have voted in favour of the political change: former prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczyński’s party Law and Justice (PiS) with its front-runner Beata Szydlo turned out strongest in the parliamentary elections on Sunday with almost 38 per cent of votes.

Spain’s economy was hit particularly hard by the financial crisis. After severe austerity measures have been implemented in recent years to contain a strong public debt increase, first signs of economic recovery are emerging. However, as SIM Europe results show, very few...

The idea of a European Finance Minister has made a comeback in the political discussion. In this policy paper, Henrik Enderlein and Jörg Haas sketch out in some detail the possible tasks and accountability structure of European Finance Minister. Such a minister would act as...

The level of social justice has declined in most member states of the European Union in recent years. How do the EU member states address the most pressing social problems? Are their reform policies sufficient to restore social inclusion? The first edition of the SIM Europe...