Participation in CEPS Lunchtime Meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be served before the meeting, from 12.30 onwards.

Participation in CEPS meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration.

 Authors: Dorothea Schäfer, Alasdair Roberts, Peter Bofinger, Stefan Ried

Participation in CEPS Lunchtime Meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be served before the meeting, from 12h15 onwards.

Participation in this meeting is free of charge. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be served before the meeting, from 12.30 onwards.

This event will discuss the IMF’s views on the significant challenges Europe faces as it climbs out of its deepest recession since the Second World War and seeks to establish a sustainable growth path.

Date: 18 March 2010

This seminar presents the work of CEPS and Green Alliance on the role that the EU budget can play to assist Europe to achieve its energy and climate change objectives. Both reports are oriented towards practical solutions and are the result of the input of academics, policymakers, NGO and industry representatives. The CEPS report is the outcome of a Task Force Chaired by former MEP Anders Wijkman. The Green Alliance presents chapters produced by representatives of major European NGOs and industry representatives.

Launch of a CEPS Task Force Report

The importance of intellectual assets in generating innovation, and thus in promoting economic growth and competitiveness in the EU, is widely recognised. As evidence to this is the significance attached to R&D and innovation in the Lisbon Process. Yet, given its tacit nature, our knowledge of the contribution of intangible capital (a significant component of intellectual assets) to economic performance is far from comprehensive.

The project’s aim is to develop a new approach and new methods for assessing the performance and adequacy of the pension systems with full respect of the sustainability constraint. The project should provide a strengthened conceptual and scientific basis for assessing the capacity of European pension systems to deliver adequate old age income maintenance in a context of low fertility and steadily increasing life expectancy.

“Constructing Europe” Network was a network of excellence for joined research and teaching will look at the construction of a new Europe especially from 2005-2008. It addressed questions of the mutual reinforcing effects of deepening and widening by developing and working with three sets of expectations for analysing the past and developing an innovative framework for the future integration beyond Western Europe.

Felix Roth works as a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and is a post-doctoral lecturer at the faculty of economics at the University of Göttingen. From 1997 to 2003 he studied sociology, economics and European law at the University of Munich and the University of Nancy, France and received in 2003 a diploma in sociology from the University of Munich.