Publikationen

Europa profitiert, wenn seine südlichen Nachbarn wie Tunesien sich selbstständig gegen Krisen wappnen können. Weil ein bedeutender Teil der Getreideeinfuhren aus der Ukraine kommt, wird die Nahrungsmittelbeschaffung für Tunesien wegen des Krieges teurer und unsicherer. Umso...

After four months Russia's war in and against Ukraine is threatening the ability of some countries in the world to feed themselves. Over the past two decades, Ukraine had become a global supplier of primary agriculture and food commodities, such as cereals and sunflower-seed...

In the current study we ask whether and how the successful CEE countries’ example of regional economic integration and economic development as part of broader EU integration can be replicated in the Western Balkans.

Our main findings are that the best way to foster...

The country reports presented here as part of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's project Strategies for the EU Neighbourhood analyze judicial reform in Ukraine since the 2013/14 Revolution of Dignity and in the Republic of Moldova since the political coalition Alliance for European...

The corona crisis and its economic fallout are promoting a “reshoring” of supply chains by Europe’s businesses. Could the EU’s more immediate neighbours, from Ukraine to Morocco, become alternative production sites for at least some of the goods now supplied by China and...

Die Region um das Schwarze und Kaspische Meer in der unmittelbaren EU-Nachbarschaft wird zunehmend zur Konfliktzone. Über die völkerrechtswidrige Annexion der Krim hinaus baut Russland seine Vormachtstellung aus – militärisch, politisch und wirtschaftlich. Es bilden sich...

This study evaluates the success of the EU’s strategy of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans over the last two decades from an economic perspective. First, we define the prerequisites for successful regional cooperation in an institutional, political and economic...

Armenien, Aserbaidschan und Georgien gehören (mit Belarus, der Republik Moldau und der Ukraine) zur „Östlichen Partnerschaft“, die mit der multilateralen Initiative „Union für das Mittelmeer" die Europäische Nachbarschaftspolitik bestimmt. Die Europäische Union und vor allem...

The spread of the latest Coronavirus strain is not simply a health crisis. It has long taken on a geopolitical dimension. China and Russia are engaged in a ‘global battle of narratives’ over who is the most generous international power. In the geopolitical competition for...

External interventions to mitigate crises or end conflicts have rarely succeeded. The EU and its member states, in particular, have repeatedly run up against their limits in the civil wars in Afghanistan, the Congo, Libya, Syria, the Sahel region and Yemen. However, the EU –...