Thinking ahead for Europe

CEPS Expert commentaries

Our expert commentaries offer timely and succinct analysis of current events and opinion on the key developments in Europe

24 Oct 2025

Buildings are responsible for about 40 % of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions and about a third of its waste…

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22 Oct 2025

The Paris Agreement builds on the assumption that countries can move at different speeds along different paths yet ultimately arrive…

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21 Oct 2025

Achieving a coherent policy mix – meaning a set of different policies that are synergetic and don’t conflict with each…

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14 Oct 2025

In June 2025, seven EU Member States (namely France, Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Estonia, Germany and Portugal) launched Finance Europe,…

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13 Oct 2025

The EU has entered its simplification moment. After a decade of head-spinning rulemaking, the European Commission is now applying simplification…

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