Publications

Almost a quarter of the young people in the EU are unemployed. And once again it is the crisis-ridden states that have been hit hardest. But in other countries such as France, Sweden, and Luxembourg, younger members of the workforce, far more than their older counterparts,...

The global financial crisis is forcing Europe to become an ever closer union. Governments are still balking at the idea and many EU citizens continue to be rather sceptical. Yet the situation calls for a new Approach to how we think about and do things. We believe that we...

The European sovereign debt crisis is slowly turning into a euro crisis. Germany has a special responsibility for the resolution of this issue. As an exporting nation it is heavily dependent on stable economic conditions in Europe, and for this reason the long-term...

A new member state is usually confronted with an anxious question when it takes over the EU Presidency for the first time. “Are they up to the job?” At the end of the Polish Presidency one can heave a sigh of relief and say that they are certainly up to the job. And, more to...

A year after the start of the Tunisian rebellion, Europe’s southern neighbourhood is in turmoil and in a state of upheaval. It is a paradoxical fact that the revolt by secular groups will bring Islamist parties to power for the first time. The transition from dictatorship to...

The outbreak of the Greek crisis has prompted the European Union to set about designing a comprehensive kind of economic governance architecture in which greater coordination of economic and fiscal policy will underpin and support the common monetary policy of the eurozone.

The Arab Spring must not be allowed to run out of steam. The sheer stay-ing power of the old regimes and important social issues are threatening to slow down or even to stifle the revolutions, rebellions and nascent reforms. It is time that Europe flexed its political...

There is going to be a brand new euro, at least from 2013 onwards, and people are talking about the Grand Design of a new European Economic Governance.

Change in Tunisia and Egypt was sudden and came as a surprise. The European Union should now provide pro-active support with the help of a transformation partnership. For this purpose it should as soon as possible subject the instruments and strategies that it has used...

In May 2010 the British Conservative Party returned to power. Propped up by the Liberal Democrats as junior coalition Partner, the new government has since then embarked on a radical programme of budgetray cuts, ringing in an age of fiscal austerity.