CEPS Expert commentaries

Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right leader who has just been elected as Italy's prime minister, has a history of pro-Russia sentiment.…

The European Political Community (EPC) – the new platform that unites all 27 EU Member States and 17 non-EU European…

Central banks are busy tightening monetary policy as quickly as they can. Even the usually careful European Central Bank (ECB)…

A group of young government officials from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States recently reminded this author that polls in…

In the attempt to tackle increasingly disruptive energy prices, the European Union has been pushed into unchartered territory and has…

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has repeatedly made the point that the design of the EU’s electricity market urgently…

Looking back over the past few months and setting the EU’s priorities for the coming legislative year can only bring…

The EU is facing an energy crisis. Russia’s de facto embargo on gas exports has sent spot prices on Europe’s…

The Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), a multilateral investment treaty on energy, is an ongoing process to better…

EU energy ministers’ recent ‘political agreement’ on natural gas was touted as an example of European unity and solidarity. It…

The assessment of France’s six-month Presidency of the Council has been mostly positive. It brokered a record 130 agreements and…

A tense debate is taking place on what to do about spiralling gas and oil prices. A special meeting of…