Economic Policy
CEPS Staff involved
Next is the list of our inhouse experts working in this unit.
Dr. Cinzia Alcidi is Director of Research, Head of the Economic Policy and Jobs &…
Farzaneh Shamsfakhr is an In-house Consultant at CEPS. She was a Research and Teaching Assistant…
Professor Rym Ayadi is Professor at CASS Business School, Member of the Centre for Banking…
Francesco Corti is an Associate Research Fellow at CEPS, Adjunct Professor at the University of…
Mattia Di Salvo is a Researcher in the Economic Policy Unit with expertise in migration…
Veselina coordinates projects and events for the Economic Policy and Jobs & Skills Unit. She…
Daniel Gros is a Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for…
Tamás Kiss-Gálfalvi is a Researcher at CEPS. Tamás focuses on policy evaluations and better regulation.…
Jorge Núñez Ferrer is a Senior Research Fellow at CEPS. He specialises in public finance,…
Doina Postica is a Research Assistant at CEPS in the Economic Policy and Jobs & Skills Unit. Experienced…
Tomás Ruiz De La Ossa is a Research Assistant at the Economic Policy Unit at…
Related Events
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Related In Brief
Here are the latest items related by this topic.
Nobody needs convincing that semiconductors and electronic chips are essential for modern industry and for the green and digital…
Earlier in 2021 most economists, including those within international organisations, predicted that recovery from the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic…
German national elections are always of special interest in European politics. Germany’s next chancellor, whoever that may be, will represent…
Housing is a major expense for most families. But the index the ECB uses currently, the HICP (Harmonised Index of…
We are close to the end of the approval process of the national recovery and resilience plans (NRRPs) submitted by…
Finalising the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has become a hotly contested issue that has put all sides…
The honest answer is, very little. The economy of the euro area might well chalk up another quarter of negative…
Originally Published: Project Syndicate, 5 March 2021 With governments in advanced economies continuing to keep the fiscal taps open, it…
The EU’s procurement strategy is clearly failing. A major supplier, AstraZeneca, has just announced major delays in its delivery schedule…
The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK is an exercise in damage limitation. The UK’s decision…
At its last meeting for this year, the European Council managed to unblock the New Generation EU (NGEU) project and…
Lockdowns are not the only way to control a pandemic. Keeping open the restaurant and retail sector increases the risk…
Related Publications
Here are the latest publications related to this topic.
The Next Revision of the Financial Regulation and the EU Budget Galaxy
How to safeguard and strengthen budgetary principles and parliamentary oversight
Optimal tariff versus optimal sanction
The case of European gas imports from Russia
Comparing and assessing recovery and resilience plans – Second edition
Italy, Germany, Spain, France, Portugal, Slovakia, Austria and Belgium
When the taps are turned off
How to get Europe through the next winter without Russian gas
Analysis of Developments in EU Capital Flows in the Global Context (2021)
Rise and fall after the COVID-19 outbreak
The Recovery and Resilience Facility
A springboard for a renaissance of public investments in Europe?
Comparing and assessing recovery and resilience plans
Italy, Germany, Spain, France, Portugal and Slovakia
Public investment or fiscal consolidation after Covid-19?
The extreme case of Italy and Germany’s recovery and resilience plans
Steering and Monitoring the Recovery and Resilience Plans
Reading between the lines
Related Projects
Here are the latest projects by this unit.
The European Parliament concluded a multiple framework service contract with CEPS for the provision of external expertise to support the…
This project presents the analysis of the main trends and developments in global and EU capital movements observed until 2019…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been deep and wide. In spite of unprecedented efforts to understand the COVID-19…
Prediction and management of migration are a major challenge for the European Union and also for many different stakeholder groups…
The overarching purpose of this study is to investigate developments in upward convergence, between EU Member States and regions, for…
The scope of this evaluation is to assess to what extent: 1) The objectives of the economic adjustment programmes and…
RRRG is a research project backed by a high level group of experts (EU institutions, national governments and academics). It…
The Gender Pension Gap (henceforth GPG) is measured as one minus the ratio of the average pensions of women and…
The current European Expert Network on Economics of Education (EENEE) can soon look back at 13 years of excellent advice…
The potential gains from further removal of barriers in the EU Single Market to the free movement of services is…
All advanced economies are experiencing population ageing - characterized by a low fertility rate and a steady increase in life…
Following the Financial Regulation (EU) No 2018/1046 the European Commission has set up a database with information of the recipients…
FACTAGE aimed to generate and disseminate findings in response to the following questions: How do levels in (healthy) life expectancy…
The Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) places an obligation on Member States to promote the availability to final customers of high-quality…
The study shall: - Identify the lacking elements in the architecture for the completion of Economic and Monetary Union that…
The 2007/08 financial crisis demonstrated the significant lack of adequate tools at the Union and national levels for dealing effectively…
The Directorate general for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) has commissioned Centre for European Policy…
In 2018, Greece exited from eight years of adjustment programmes. Three programmes totalling €288 billion of financial assistance were made…
The study examines the current methodologies used for tracking climate-related and biodiversity-related expenditure in the EU budget. It identifies strengths…
DG FISMA has commissioned a consortium led by the CEPS to conduct a Feasibility study on the creation of a…
The European Parliament concluded a multiple framework service contract with CEPS for the provision of external expertise to support the…
The Mercator Dialogue on Migration and Asylum (MEDAM) is three-year research and consultation project that aims to identify and close…
The project was coordinated by GEOPA-COPA ( Employers’ Group of Professional Agricultural Organisations in the European Union) with the support…
The purpose of the study is to assess how national options and discretions under the DGSD are implemented in practice,…
This study consists of a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the application of the super simplified reporting regime for micro…
The purpose of this grant (ENGAGE project II) is to continue facilitating the participation of representatives from NGOs, Civil Society…
There is an emerging change in the role of education and skills in working lives and career trajectories. Increasingly, the…
The Study starts from the 2015 ESPAS Global Trends Report, which identified five global economic and social trends to 2030,…
The IPEPS project aims at complementing degree-level programmes led by Universities by enriching the background knowledge that students acquire in…
The EU seeks to build a comprehensive immigration policy in which legally residing non-EU nationals, referred to as third-country nationals…
The project provided new tools for fiscal policy design by incorporating the new EU fiscal rules regarding, e.g. government debt…
This report presents the assessment of the impacts of a potential EU measure on cash payment restrictions (either a prohibition…
The Study aims to provide the necessary clarity by carrying out an in-depth assessment of the EUTFs and the FRT,…
The EU budget imposes a considerable number of conditionalities on the Member States in use of the EU budget, and…
This was a briefing commissioned by European Parliament, DG Internal Policies of the Union through a Negotiated Procedure No IP/D/CONT/IC/2017-038.…
Through scientific research, stakeholder engagement and dissemination, MoPAct advanced the knowledge base required in promoting the formulation and implementation of…
The aim of the study was to assess the legal and operational feasibility of introducing a European unemployment benefits scheme…
Skills, labour mobility and Information technology (IT) all rank high on the European policy agenda and feature among the key…
CEPS was commissioned to write a study on labour mobility for the Dutch Presidency. Specifically the study assessed the situation…
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an effort by the United States and the European Union to reposition…
The Master Economics of Globalisation and European Integration (EGEI) is a two-year (120 ECTS) program fully taught in English, aiming…
In March 2017, the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union, effectively starting the process…
Related Task Forces
Here are the latest task forces organised by this unit.
On 10 March 2020, just as the Covid-19 pandemic was really starting to hit Europe, the European Commission launched…
Faced with the prospect of a long-lasting and traumatic Covid-19 pandemic, we at CEPS decided to step up our efforts…
The overall level of education and more precisely the skills, abilities and creativity of European citizens constitute a key determinant…
Not at any time in the history of the European Community have labour markets diverged to the extent they do…
The economic crisis has exposed the weaknesses of the European economies and emphasised the needs to boost competitiveness of the…
Creating a global economy that emits a fraction of its current greenhouse gas emissions will not only require wholesale changes…
Adaptation and mitigation for climate change are a global responsibility and the EU has to develop a common strategy to…
Last September, following developing countries rejections of proposals at Cancún Mexico, the Doha Development Round of WTO negotiations looked to…
CEPS Task Force Report: The EU Budget: The UK Rebate and the CAP – Phasing them both out? Author: Jorge…
CEPS Task Force Report: The DOHA Round of WTO Negotiations: Practical Proposals towards Enhancing the Global Trading System and Fostering…
CEPS Task Force Report: The Future of the WTO and the New Trade Round Author: Paul Brenton The world trading…