Publikationen

The Bertelsmann Stiftung High-Level Reflection Group brings together decisionmakers and experts to provide answers to the EU’s internal and external challenges

based on the perspective of European public goods.

Is Europe ready to take its fate in its own hands? Both politicians and citizens ask for more security as common good – time to finance a truly European security policy.

The conveners of the Vision Europe Summit 2017 published this conference declaration based on the discussions which took place during the summit. Along seven guiding principles, it emphasized the need to implement proactive policies at the national and European level in...

This publication deals with the all-encompassing question of “winners and losers of globalization”. The goal, in tackling such a controversial issue, is to go beyond taking stock of the impact of globalization on economic, political and social systems around the world and to...

At the occasion of the second Vision Europe Summit in November 2016 leaders from the eight convening think tanks and foundations signed the conference declaration "Building common ground: Towards strategic migration and refugee policies in Europe".

Migration to European countries has increased against a backdrop of persistent integration challenges. Social cohesion – in many ways the essence of successful integration – has been eroded by anxiety about rapidly changing communities and the perceived effects this change...

Refugee flows to Europe are unlikely to subside soon, as many conflicts persist and the average duration of protracted refugee situations worldwide is on the rise. The paper puts forward policy recommendations for a paradigm-shift from reactive to pro-active refugee...

In its first part, the paper sketches the picture of the breadth of creeping conflicts currently taking place within the EU on migration issues. On this basis, the second part of the paper argues that there is still space to regain consensus and bring back the EU as a source...

Tiziana Caponio (University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto) and Teresa M. Cappiali (Collegio Carlo Alberto) analyze the current migration/integration ‘crisis’ from a bottom-up perspective by considering three different sets of responses: public opinion perceptions of...

Integration is no longer a peripheral policy area, if it ever was. But more than any time in the past, it is at the forefront of the minds of Europe’s policymakers. Many of the structural adaptations needed to turn this crisis into an opportunity will benefit everyone. But...