CEPS In Brief

“Geography is changing – even though we cannot change geography”, were the words of Norway’s then Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr…

At its last meeting for this year, the European Council managed to unblock the New Generation EU (NGEU) project and…

Peace in Libya is within reach, but not without a concerted effort by Europe. The UN-backed Libyan Government of National…

Venezuela is a failed state, causing the second-largest humanitarian and migrant crisis in the world. The country’s recent history of…

The presidency of Joe Biden heralds an opportunity for Europe, and more particularly the EU, to revive its relationship with…

The impacts of lockdowns in response to the Covid-19 outbreak have been asymmetric across different economic sectors, depending on the…

Lockdowns are not the only way to control a pandemic. Keeping open the restaurant and retail sector increases the risk…

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused widespread concern about debt unsustainability in both developed and emerging economies. To address this challenge,…

Concluding the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment would mean cementing a trade relationship on a level playing field between two of the…

The Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery response to the Covid-19 crisis, one of the most ambitious EU integration projects so…

Both the European Commission and European Parliament now support raising the EU’s emissions reduction target for 2030, although they do…

A low-carbon EU economy with a fully decarbonised power sector at its core will require huge volumes of low-carbon electricity,…