CEPS’ researchers have once again joined 13 other European think tanks to address recommendations to the current Trio holding the 18-month EU Presidency (Spain, Belgium and Hungary). The team of experts has scrutinised the programme on every major issue (structural reform, economic governance, energy, climate change, migration, internal security, world governance, foreign policy, defence policy, EU institutions, the EU political space and budget) and examined the changing global context in order to make concrete recommendations.

On Thursday 18 March (11.30-13.30) José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, will be the keynote speaker at a joint CEPS-CER event to launch the 10th annual Lisbon Scorecard of the Centre for European Reform. Simon Tilford, Chief Economist at CER, Karel Lannoo, CEO of CEPS, and Ann Mettler, Executive Director of the Lisbon Council will then assess the prospects for the recently unveiled 2020 Strategy.

A new report by a CEPS-Assonime Task Force on Bank Crisis Resolution rejects the conventional wisdom that large, cross-border financial institutions must be broken up Its authors argue that alternative solutions exist that can achieve a more stable and resilient financial system without renouncing the benefits of multi-purpose financial institutions and innovative finance.