Publications

Twelve Stars presents 24 though-provoking essays by leading European philosophers on the policy choices that the European Union now faces. Proposals include a European basic income scheme; financial regulation that puts people before banks; putting an end to factory farming;...

Twelve Stars presents 24 though-provoking essays by leading European philosophers on the policy choices that the European Union now faces. Proposals include a European basic income scheme; financial regulation that puts people before banks; putting an end to factory farming;...

Twelve Stars presents 24 though-provoking essays by leading European philosophers on the policy choices that the European Union now faces. Proposals include a European basic income scheme; financial regulation that puts people before banks; putting an end to factory farming;...

The EU should act as the guardian of sustainable integration. Sustainable integration in this sense comprises but is broader than the sustainability agenda of the UN, and includes all policies, laws, and actions.

In the EU, we should not tolerate member freedom without proper reasons to do so. For example, laws banning certain forms of religious dresses such as headscarves or burqas based on certain ideas of “public order” are impermissible.

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) accounts for roughly 38 percent of EU spending, the largest single expenditure in the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). According to the new Commission proposal for the MFF 2021–2027, this will change only slightly. Direct payments...

Since the annexation of Crimea and the start of the war in Donbas, internal migrations in Ukraine might have affected from two to three million people. Effectiveness of the assistance provided by international donors to the Ukrainian state and its civil society is of...

For most people, obtaining economic and social opportunities depends on access to labour-markets. Effective and flexible labour-markets allow economies to cope more easily with ageing and the disruptions of innovation and globalisation. Positive outcomes include the ability...

Russia and Turkey constantly accompanied the Young Leaders for Europe seminars. Former participants of the YLE programme developed scenarios for both countries’ development into the year 2030 at an alumni meeting.

After more than three years of debunking Kremlin “fake news”, Ukraine does not have a perfect track record in countering manipulation. Yet, the country has made enough progress to be treated by other Eastern Partnership countries as a possible example on how to approach the...