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Ukrainians are oriented pro-European and tend to see closer ties with Russia negatively. They want to avoid the Russia-Ukraine conflict becoming a global one.

The recently published “Five Presidents’ Report” proposes a reform of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) along four dimensions: economic, financial, fiscal and political. This policy paper summarises our assessment of the proposals. In view of the political circumstances,...

The assassination of tourists in Sousse is a call: Tunisia needs European help in implementing democracy and market economy as well as speedy and robust support in building up its security sector.

The European Commission’s recent single market initiatives have a second important benefit beyond growth that is often overlooked: Deepening the Single Market for goods and services can also reduce imbalances in the euro area and limit its vulnerability to crises. A further...

At the European Summit on 25 - 26 June Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, will be presenting a report on the future of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In this Flashlight we provide answers to key questions about the forthcoming report.

In January 2014, for the first time in its history, the German Federal Constitutional Court submitted several questions to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg and asked for a preliminary ruling. The questions had arisen within the framework of the OMT case, and...

No hung parliament, no coalition needed: with 36.9 percent of the votes, David Cameron and the Conservative Party have secured 331 seats in Westminster and can thus govern the country with a 12-seat majority. What does this mean for the future of the United Kingdom and its...

The Pew Research Center, in association with the Bertelsmann Foundation, surveyed publics in the United States and Germany to examine American and German attitudes toward the role historical memory plays in the relationship, views about each other as reliable allies, their...

There was no such thing as a closed season for Alexis Tsipras. After all, his new government acceded office with a political agenda demanding nothing less than an end to austerity and the submission to a reform programme seen as unduly imposed on Greece by its creditors, the...

Both the EU and Russia_s ambitions for the eastern region have evolved into two competing region-building projects underpinned by differing strategies, norms, instruments, and actors. The EU must make an effort to acknowledge and engage with the different actors, in order to...