Publications

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was set up in a time when (a) the memory about post-war food shortage was fresh, (b) Europe was a large net importer of agricultural products, (c) agricultural production was still highly labour-intensive, (d) food was a major item in a...

Conflict and war, but most of all overwhelming despair are driving massive numbers of mostly young people from the Middle East and North Africa, Central Africa, the Balkan, Ukraine and Central Asia to leave their homes for Europe in search of safety. What do they need most...

The study provides an impact evaluation of the DCFTA implementation in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. We analyse benefits and costs that have already materialised or are yet expected to manifest themselves in the longer run in the public and private sectors. While there is...

In recent days alone, 12,000 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean and taken to Sicily. Most of them departed from the Libyan coast seeking refuge and a better life in Europe. That means more than 140,000 people have arrived in southern Italy so far this year....

Jordan has experience with refugees, but the recent arrivals from Syria are a severe challenge for the resource-poor country. Government and civil society are preventing a true crisis. What are needed now are sustainable projects. Europe is contributing considerable aid, but...

Every third person in Lebanon is a refugee. Many are living in poverty and need legal recognition of their status, as well as access to education and health care. The government is paralyzed, civil society active. Europe is providing considerable financial aid, but achieving...

More than three million Moroccans live in the European Union. 158,000 people of Moroccan origin live in Germany, 70,000 of whom were born there. A good 10,000 were registered in Germany in 2015; approximately 3% have been recognised as refugees.

The Syrian civil war started with the mass demonstrations which broke out in the wake of the Arabellion in Syria in March 2011. Yet Assad’s regime did not respond to the protesters’ major demands, which included, in particular, more political and economic participation. On...

After a colonial era, a monarchy and over 40 years of the Qaddafi dictatorship, Libyans are largely unfamiliar with centralized, good government.

Even in the years before the so-called Euromaidan protests, a number of factors – dissatisfaction with the political situation, rampant corruption and generally low living standards – were resulting in migration outflows from Ukraine among significant segments of the...