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Dr. Tinatin Akhvlediani is a Research Fellow in the EU Foreign Policy Unit at CEPS, specialising…
Steven Blockmans is an Associate Senior Research Fellow, and previously Director of Research and Senior…
Karel Lannoo has been Chief Executive of CEPS since 2000, Europe’s leading independent European think…
Jacques Pelkmans is an Associate Senior Fellow at CEPS. Jacques studied economics at Tilburg University,…
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The goal of the research project is to develop and test a monitoring tool to assess occurrence, impact and pass-through…
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This Study serves as the Final Report for the DG TAXUD Project “Study contributing to an Impact Assessment on Council…
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This project involved an analysis of the carbon leakage risk indicators that will apply from 2021 onwards for EU ETS…
Bank failures have multiple causes though they are typically precipitated by a rapidly unfolding funding crisis. The European Union’s new…
This paper defined critical banking functions and considers whether there is a need for further legal/regulatory clarification if liquidation is…
The purpose of this Study was to contribute to the Impact Assessment of a possible revision of Council Directive 1992/83/EEC…
This study carries out an ex-ante impact assessment of substantial amendments put forward by the IMCO and JURI Committees of…
The first part of the paper considered the effects of pre-empting a resolution procedure for a troubled financial institution by…
In compliance with Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 250/2014 establishing the Hercule III Programme, the Evaluation Roadmap prepared by…
The Study consists of two components. The first one concerns an assessment of the status of implementation, covering both the…
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The study provides a stocktaking exercise of the state of play in the Digital Single Market and offers a critical…
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The study consists of a Fitness Check on the Construction Sector in the policy areas of Internal Market and Energy…
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The ambitious reform of the Single Market for services triggered by the adoption of the Services Directive is far from…
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