CEPS Expert commentaries

The recent history of the EU’s relations in its ‘southern neighbourhood’ can hardly be called its finest hour. It has…

Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ has delivered the highest tariff hike in nearly a century. If they’re implemented, the average US…

Suppose vast quantities of Europeans’ digital data were being sent every few days to a foreign power that has threatened…

In the wake of the Draghi report and the EU Competitiveness Compass, ‘competitiveness’ is again dominating debates about the present…

We’re undergoing a global transformation marked by competition for resources, value chain shifts, geopolitical tensions, humanitarian crises, climate change and…

The democratic rule of law is badly deteriorating in many parts of the world and those responsible are hiding in…

Five years on, Covid-19 taught us the hard way, that health crises can turn our lives upside down overnight –…

Gender is largely absent from the EU’s antimicrobial resistance (AMR) policies and strategies. Yet AMR is a major global health…

Georgia is no stranger to political turmoil but the country now finds itself at a perilous tipping point. Georgians are…

Skills have become a central pillar in policy discussions on the future of work. Since the 2000 Lisbon Strategy, the…

The European Commission’s ‘Simplification Omnibus’ proposal, unveiled on 26 February, was presented as a necessary step to reduce the regulatory…

Germany went to the polls last Sunday and the conservative CDU came first, followed by the far-right AfD. Upcoming coalition…