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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;...

In this paper we provide quantitative insights into the economic impact of Brexit on European countries and regions. More specifically, we evaluate the impact of a soft and a hard Brexit on productivity, markups, product variety, welfare and the distribution of population...

Overall, 2018 was an eventful year, one in which the issue of social cohesion played a particularly significant role for us. In June 2018, the Reinhard Mohn Prize, dedicated to the topic “Living Diversity – Shaping Society,” was awarded to former German President Joachim...

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.

Fair taxation of digital businesses will be a key issue in the forthcoming European election campaign. The debate will most likely revolve around the introduction of a new “digital tax” on companies’ turnover, as proposed by the European Commission, for example. In the short...

It is 25 years since the European Union (EU) agreed to complete the European Single Market (SM) in goods, services, people, and capital. While many barriers to the free movement of capital across borders have been removed, some important practical hurdles are still in place....

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.

Who is the Bertelsmann Stiftung? What are our goals? How do we carry out our work? This brochure is meant to provide clear, concise answers to those questions and others. After all, transparency is one of our core principles. We want to use our projects, studies and events...

The political drama called Brexit leaves observers in London fascinated, appalled or exhausted. Whereas in the UK, the tension seems to intensify with every twist and turn the British take on their way out of the European Union, Europeans on the continent seem to be...