CEPS Publication Type
Research Paper
2019 ECMI Statistical Package
The single market is still the EU’s strategic imperative
5G and National Security
A 2021 roundup… or ‘une année charnière’
A 2030 emissions target of net -55% means tough decisions on the bioeconomy can no longer wait
A bold proposal to build the ‘EuroStack’ – because doing nothing isn’t an option anymore
A common euro-bond market in sight
A complex European financial architecture – 10 years on
A credible new accession methodology or just a face-saving exercise?
A fraught negotiation looms between the EU and the UK
A Jumbo Financial Instrument for EU External Action?
A ‘nearly’ gender-balanced Commission isn’t good enough. It’s actually an ominous omen for advancing gender equality in the EU
A new EuroMed Pact could reinvigorate EU-MENA relations
A new role for the EU in Venezuela
A new vision for EU R&I policy shouldn’t just address brain drain but other pressing global challenges as well
A Parliament is Born
A political realignment that puts EU green policy at risk – the sustainability vote is changing the game
A proposal for a public infrastructure leasing entity for Europe
A quantum of possibilities
A surprising new alliance: Europe and Japan
A Union Humanitarian Visa Framework
A visit by Borrell highlights why Georgia is still the EU’s perennial problem child
A war without end – must the EU remain a bystander in the Middle East?
After a year of arms deliveries to Ukraine, the EU needs to step up and speed up
After Afghanistan
After four years of war in Ukraine and with the transatlantic relationship still on ice, Munich highlighted that the EU still has a lot of work to do
After one year of war, the EU must create a single market for defence
AI is political – let’s use it to really transform society
AI reveals what’s broken about organisations today – but the power to act on it remains in too few hands
Algorithmic management isn’t the problem – what it optimises is.
All chill, no grill – and other key takeaways from the 2024 Commission confirmation hearings
An AI Liability Regulation would complete the EU’s AI strategy
An industrious initiative, yet the Net-Zero Industry Act won’t end concerns about cleantech cash
An unpredictable German election… but a (mostly) predictable outcome for EU politics
Another tough year ahead for the von der Leyen Commission
Another unexpected banking crisis, yet another opportunity to fix the system
Are China’s Trade Practices Really Unfair?
Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity
AUKUS and the Strategic Compass
Being prepared is all that’s needed to address the European Commission’s transparency woes
Beyond disclosure – or why the EU’s green strategy is coming apart
Beyond Public Debt
Blockchain is the real thing
Blood, toil, tears and sweat: the European Political Community’s summit in the UK
Bouteflexit
Brussels is edging towards pragmatism over nuclear energy – but industry also has homework to do
Building an EU-UK special relationship
Built for burnout – how job design fails women
Can Europe offer a Green Deal to the world?
Can Europe’s finance sector resist COVID-19?
Can ‘normalisation’ help bring peace to the Middle East?
Can the EU’s Arctic policy find true north?
Capital Markets Union
Carbon credits could help turn coal’s phase-out into a global climate partnership opportunity
Caught between China and the US, the EU must play to its regulatory strengths
Ceci n’est pas un PEPP
CEPS Ideas Lab 2019
CEPS Ideas Lab 2019 gathers more than a thousand participants
CEPS named Best European Think Tank in Global Affairs
CEPS organizes a workshop on “Digital 4 Jobs” as part of the Digital Assembly 2019 in Bucharest
CEPS researchers on the new Commission
CEPS Summer School 2019
CEPS to speak on Cyber-Finance at Lisbon’s Web Summit
CEPS Winter School: ‘Four dimensions of the future of work’
China’s CPTPP membership bid
Clarifying the costs for the EU’s AI Act
Communicating vessels
Considering Ukraine, why Georgia deserves EU membership
Contributions to the SRF
COP26 in Glasgow
COP27 agreed compensation for loss and damage… but the fear is we’ll just end up seeing even more loss and damage
Could the EU and India jointly shape the world?
Could the EU and South Korea be any closer? Time to raise the bar in bilateral ties
Creating an EU ‘Corona Panel’
Credit Rating Dynamics
Data sharing in credit markets
Dealing with the second wave
Defying gravity… or not? Here are seven weaknesses to look out for in the US economy
Despite all the geopolitical uncertainty, it’s geo-economics that’s driving the transatlantic relationship
Despite Erdogan’s win, the EU should not give up on a reset with Turkey
Did we just witness Georgia go from dream to nightmare?
Did we say “new own resources” for the recovery fund?
Disk backup to the cloud is a gaping vulnerability in the EU’s security
Don’t Fear the Eurosceptics
ECB needs to finance coronavirus budget deficits
Economic Convergence or Divergence in the EU?
Economic Integration and Income Convergence in the EU
Electricity markets will need an overhaul, but not now
Enlarging the European Defence Union to the Western Balkans
Enough is enough – why the EU needs sufficiency to thrive
Equitable partnerships are key to ensuring global health security – and here’s why
ESG resilience during the Covid crisis
EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment
EU dithering leaves Western Balkans prey to other suitors
EU gas markets may avoid a 2022-style crisis – but the consequences will bite anyway
EU-India: a renewed strategic partnership or business as usual?
EU-India relations set for a new era
EU integration policies are broken – the case of Afghanistani immigrants (especially women) proves this
EU-NATO relations – somewhere between dancing with two left feet and seamless tango
EU policymakers – you’ve done a (mostly) good job on the AI Act. Now finish it already
EU-Russia relations after the Biden-Putin summit
EU-Russia relations and Europe’s global profile
EU solidarity in exceptional times
EU-UK financial market access in 2021
Europe absent in Alaska – a win for Putin
Europe and the digital arms race
Europe can produce its own tech giants — here’s how
Europe is adrift in the Middle East and must do better
Europe is taking a pragmatic approach to Syria. Its origins lie in Kabul
Europe needs a revolutionary digital platform to spearhead its Innovation Renaissance
Europe’s 5G Wake-Up Call
Europe’s big tech contradiction
Europe’s digital future is brighter than we think – we just need to fight for it
Europe’s digital independence day
Europe’s Good Crisis
Europe’s hidden AI champions are vital in its quest to becoming a global tech leader
Europe’s New Deal Moment
Europe’s retail payments are a success story – we need to keep it that way
Europe’s silent majority
Event studies and the random walk hypothesis
Executive Training on The Power of the EU Purse
Exit Boris – and what now for the UK and its relations with the EU
Finance Europe is a well-intentioned label but it misses the structural point
Financing Europe’s Green Deal: beware of the waterbed effect
Fiscal Follies in the COVID Recovery
Fit for 55 – is the European Green Deal really leaving no-one behind?
Flexible ‘EU-centricness’ is the key ingredient to ensure the European Political Community’s success
Following July’s CrowdStrike outage, this is how we can avoid the next ‘Blue Friday’
For structurally increasing EU competitiveness, civil law is one of the EU’s hidden treasures
For the euro to go global, the EU must match its ambition with real action
For the EU’s prosperity, we must empower the single market now
Foresight is a messy methodology but a marvellous mindset
Fostering capital market integration
Four books on progress towards good governance in Eastern Europe
Four steps towards a European Defence Union
Franco-German cooperation will be crucial for the future of European security
Freeze, seize and tax – that’s how to make Russia (and its enablers) pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction
From a Capital Markets Union towards a robust Savings and Investment Union
From germs to guns and steel – how the world could waste the Covid-19 crisis
From UK customs fraud to Danish money laundering
Georgia has another new prime minister
Georgia’s dubious application for EU membership
Georgia’s European dream is being carried by the highest spirit of democracy
Georgia’s ongoing struggle goes beyond the bill. It’s about finally breaking free from Russian influence
Germany’s inaugural green bond… not so green after all
Get over the DeepSeek Panic – it might actually be a good thing
Global AI governance is currently like the Tokyo Shibuya crossing – scrambled
Global Currencies During a Crisis
Going beyond the ‘EuroStack’ could help the EU build a truly global (open) Science Stack
Grabbing Greenland – and how it would impact NATO and the EU
Helicoptering money into Europe
Helping the EU Win the Trust Game
Historical parenthesis?
How can the EU navigate the Indo-Pacific?
How Europe Should Manage the Coronavirus-Induced Crisis
How new is the EU’s new agenda for the Mediterranean?
How robust is the EU recovery?
How the EU can best woo ASEAN over the connectivity agenda
How to continue CMU
How to future-proof NATO’s defence innovation and EDT strategy
How to make HERA’s stakeholder engagement count
Hung(a)ry for gender equality deliberation in a conservative EU
In a green subsidy race, the EU should not imitate the US
In the French legislative elections, the far right will probably fall short
In Moldova’s election, the line held and a mandate was won – but the hard work is only just beginning
In the fight between the European Parliament and Commission, Hungary is the ominous third party in an ongoing ‘triangle of madness’
In the Middle East, the EU doesn’t need Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ to be more effective
In the plutocratic age of ‘broligarchy’, democracy is in deep trouble – but there’s still hope
In the shadow of war
In this State of the Union, President von der Leyen must say it loud and clear – business as usual is over
In turbulent times, the EU must make up its mind on offshore wind in low and medium wind speed regions
INDUSTRIAL SUBSIDIES, STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES AND MARKET DISTORTIONS
Is EU Joint Gas Purchasing really a bad idea?
Is Polexit on the cards?
Is the proposed IP waiver to help combat Covid-19 all it seems?
Israeli annexation
It would be a strategic mistake for the EU to ditch the Energy Charter Treaty
Italy’s foreign policy will stay the course, but the economy remains its Achilles heel
It’s finally time to leverage pension funds to foster EU productivity and benefit pensioners
It’s Groundhog Day in the Middle East – can the EU help to get peace back on track?
It’s time for the EU to make a (bilateral) move on Indonesia
It’s time to get ready for Europe’s space moment
It’s time to launch an Ecological Impact Fund
It’s time to rethink the EU’s Russia strategy
Keeping up with Innovation
Knocking on Polexit’s door?
Labour has moved first to reset the EU-UK relationship – Brussels needs to sit up and listen
Launching an ‘AI moonshot’ to develop a European large language model is the game changer that Europe needs
Legitimate data access will determine whether European science has a bright or bleak future
Less is more
Liquidity and tail-risk interdependencies in the euro area sovereign bond market
Low risk, high reward – a Trans-Pacific Partnership for the EU
Macron’s “Non” to EU enlargement
Making public services interoperable across the EU
Making the political weather to combat climate change
Marking the first Europe Day of the Brave New World
Measuring price stability in Covid times
Mifid II critics are not seeing the big picture
MiFID II is working
Mind the Gender Pensions Gap
Minding the gender gap – a critical omission in the EU’s AMR response
Modi-Ji, Modi-Xi, or Modi-EU?
Money allocation is not the key to recovery and resilience, reforms are
More finance, less friction – how the EU’s rulebook turned into a levy on investment (and what to do about it)
NATO turns 75 – how it can overcome complacency and reinforce transatlantic security cooperation for another 75
NEW! 2018-2019 Annual Report
Next Generation EU
Next Generation EU
Next Generation EU bonds might face a credit-rating challenge
No honeymoon for von der Leyen
Nord Stream 2 – a red herring at the bottom of the sea
Offshore wind from the Black Sea can deliver the Green Deal for South East Europe
Omitting rape from the EU’s Directive on combating violence against women is a huge mistake
On the fringes: EU-UK financial services under the TCA
Operation Irini in Libya
Overall, the French EU Council Presidency was a success… but not everyone agrees
Pardon my ethics – why we need to rethink ethical oversight in the EU
Participatory democracy in the EU should be strengthened with a Standing Citizens’ Assembly
Permission to be ambitious – what the G20’s EU win means for global geopolitics
Plugging Europe’s great tax leak
Presidential elections in Poland
Putting heads together for the EU’s top jobs
Quantum technologies and cybersecurity in the EU – there’s still a long way to go
Rapidly including the Western Balkans into the EU ETS is the only effective way to phase-out coal and exclude Russia
Reaching a Wider Audience
Reducing the costs of ‘non-Europe’ in taxation requires more – and better targeted – coordination across the EU
Reform of the electricity market will not solve the EU’s energy crisis
Reforming the global corporate tax system
Responsible lending in times of crisis
Rule of law and the Next Generation EU recovery
Russia invades Ukraine
Russia’s threat to invade Ukraine and Europe’s soft power
Six months of MFF negotiations – and there’s still no shared vision for a ‘policy-driven’ EU budget
Skills aren’t your plug-and-play solution for inclusive competitiveness
Smart strategies to increase prosperity and limit brain drain in Central Europe
SME market financing
Social bonds in response to the Covid-19 crisis
Solidarity for Adamowicz, Poland, and Europe
Stalemate in Libya
Stargate and the fight for AI supremacy – this is Europe’s wake-up call
Stock take of the SRB’s activities over the past years
Stop ‘techwashing’ layoffs – and start co-designing the future of work
Supporting and restructuring the aviation ecosystem
SURE
Sustainability in practice
Sustainable finance in the Covid-19 era
Taxing the digital economy
The battle for Europe’s soul
The Biden presidency is a last call for Europe
The Brexit ‘Future Relationship’
The Brexit trade deal is no frictionless uncoupling
The British proposal for an alternative to the backstop
The European Commission is neglecting evidence-based law-making
The cordon sanitaire is quietly fraying in the European Parliament
The Data Act: six impossible things before breakfast?
The Eastern Partnership at 10
The ECB’s deflation obsession
The EPC one year on – picture imperfect
The EU according to Draghi – as competitive as needed, as sustainable as possible
The EU and India agree to disagree on Ukraine… and that’s ok
The EU-Arab Summit
The EU-AU Summit: Untying the Sahelian knot
The EU equivalence regime in financial services
The EU has an accountability problem. Doubling down on ethics can help change that
The EU Health Union in search of a definition and an open discussion
The EU in Libya
The EU is at a crossroads – the Global Gateway can still lead the way forward
The EU is walking a fine line between simplification and deregulation
The EU must stay on course and be much more assertive, both at home and abroad
The EU needs to up its game in the Gulf following the Saudi-Russian oil deal
The EU should create a Quantum Sovereign Fund
The EU should lead the green steel race… Or it could be left behind in the dust
The EU should transform its buildings from carbon sources into carbon sinks
The EU-US Data Privacy Framework is a sitting duck. PETs might be the solution
In the EU-US data transfer and privacy quarrel, the end is not in sight
The EU-US trade deal promises temporary relief but longer-term pain
The Euro Turns 20
The European Chips initiative
The European Council’s compromise on the Rule of Law Regulation
The European Peace Facility
The European security order after Putin’s aggression
The euro’s global dreams and nightmares
The Eurozone’s 2% Fixation
The EU’s agri-food sector is a global success story – and that’s why we need a new narrative for the CAP
The EU’s aim to de-risk itself from China is risky… yet necessary
The EU’s competitiveness drive could turn quality jobs into a mirage
The EU’s defence industrial policies – walking the walk with Euro-defence bonds
The EU’s enlargement agenda is no longer fit for purpose
The EU’s (giga)factory strategy needs a Goldilocks approach
The EU’s new International Digital Strategy offers a promising start – but how it’s implemented will determine its ultimate success
The EU’s on thin ice in Greenland. It really needs to get its key messages across
The EU’s possible response to a post-Lukashenko Belarus
The EU’s strategic compromises are blinding it to the ongoing fight for democracy in Serbia
The EU’s sustainability rollback is a retreat disguised as simplification
The fight for Georgia is still a fight for Europe
The Franco-German bond to the rescue
The French presidential election
The G7 as a photo op?
The gender-blind assumptions of the EU’s green transition require a reality check
The gender-equal platform economy is a myth – fixing it requires firm action
The good, the bad and the ugly of the Conference on the Future of Europe
The Greek-Macedonian name agreement
The impact of digitalisation on labour market inclusion of people with disabilities
The Italy v ICC row exposes deep-rooted hypocrisy in EU migration policy
The lead candidate procedure isn’t dead – but it’s no longer what its inventors intended it to be
The longtermist fear of a future malevolent superintelligence is hindering our progress today
The Maastricht Treaty 30 years on
The MFF recovery plan breaks with a fundamental taboo
The Mirage of a Global Euro
The new enlargement package sends the right message – now the EU needs the backbone to go forward
The new EU leadership’s opportunity for an early win in Eastern Europe
The New EU Strategy on Central Asia
The new European Commission must deliver for Europe’s future – but excessively emphasising ‘competitiveness’ could hinder this
The nomination of von der Leyen
The Open Data Maturity Ranking is shoddy – it badly needs to be re-thought
The other side of the Brexit coin
The Paris Agreement turns 10 – it’s time to prepare for the teenage years
The popular will and the European Parliament
The race for simplification shouldn’t sideline gender equality from FP10
The Real Cost of Trump’s Trade Wars
The Retail Investment Strategy: Lacking a ban, packing alternatives
The Return Regulation will ‘ICE-ify’ the EU’s migration policy
The rising cost of housing
The Siren Song of Strategic Autonomy
The skill challenges posed by Covid-19
The Spread of Horizontal Sanctions
The strategic potential of Ukraine’s Zelenskyy
The troubling reform of Poland’s Foreign Service
The Two-pillar Strategy of the ECB
These are the necessary conditions to get European boots on the ground in Ukraine
This is not a trade war, it is a struggle for technological and geo-strategic dominance
This time is different
This week’s motion of censure in the European Parliament was a proxy war
Time for a tech-driven platform to boost global debt transparency
Time to get serious on AML policy in Europe
To be a true global leader in research and innovation, the EU needs to get FP10 right
To build a successful European capital market, we need to follow the Swedish assembly instructions
To connect the dots, how about an EU Digital Clearinghouse to coordinate across EU digital law?
To finally defeat neglected diseases, the EU needs to really lead in global health
To make Moscow truly suffer, the sanctions screw must be tightened even further
To retaliate or not to retaliate? Or three reasons why the EU shouldn’t react to US tariffs (at least for now)
To unlock EU-Western Balkans energy investment, we first need accurate emissions data
To unlock real global solutions, FP10 needs to wield multistakeholder power
Trump’s back – now the EU must step up its game
Trump’s China tariffs
Trump’s Imperial Overreach on Trade
Tunisia: Should the EU do more?
Ukraine isn’t a financial burden but an opportunity for the EU’s digital transition
Undermining trust, not toppling the Commission – the European Parliament’s fringes have rediscovered the censure motion
Understanding the Limitations of Maastricht
Unlocking Europe’s Hidden Capital Markets
Unpacking the sense and nonsense behind energy price caps
Vaccines: How to use market-based incentives to ramp up production
Venezuela’s election shows that technology can be democracy’s ally – and not only an enemy
Voice or Exit
Von der Leyen’s Commission: More balanced, less impartial?
Was a fair and independent process followed in the Phil Hogan case?
We have a case of sustainability reporting overload. The EU needs a smarter fix
We need to urgently strengthen the EU’s transition to a quantum-safe world
We should be worried about corporate due diligence – but for the right reasons
We should revise the GDPR to unlock Europe’s digital future
We’re sleepwalking into the European elections… and we need to wake up now
What can the ECB achieve in a lockdown recession?
What can the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C
What EU “Geopolitical” Power Will Cost
What Putin’s farcical ‘re-election’ means for the EU
What’s the ECB doing in response to the COVID-19 crisis?
When it comes to electric vehicles, the EU is still trying to find the right recipe
Who Wins in Trump’s Trade War?
Who’s Afraid of Low Inflation?
Why AI World is providing the key insights that are shaping the AI revolution
Why Europe needs a climate bad bank to avoid a ‘green swan’
Why Europe should harden its soft power to lawfare
Why European companies might be better equipped to cope with the crisis than their US counterparts
Why French leadership in the Indo-Pacific will be a real asset for the EU
Why gas price caps and consumer subsidies are both extremely costly and ultimately futile
Why it’s businesses (and not the European Commission) that need to ensure sustainable supply chains
Why it’s important to advance coherence in the EU’s circular economy policy mix
Why Japan could be the key to the EU’s Indo-Pacific ambitions
Why the EU must now tackle the risks posed by military AI
Why the EU needs a geopolitical Commission
Why the EU needs a Special Representative for Global Health
Why the EU really needs to start worrying about hateful propaganda
Why the EU should have a dedicated Commissioner for Implementation and Enforcement
Why the EU should take the global lead in cancelling Africa’s debt
Why the EU-Ukraine DCFTA review matters
Why the EU’s new fiscal framework hits the nail near the head
Why Turkey’s women’s rights debate should matter to Europe
Why Ursula von der Leyen’s second term is struggling
Why we need to rewire Europe’s financial sector – to end fragmentation and bolster integration
Will COVID-19 reduce the resistance to Eurobonds?
Will eurozone policymakers take the long view?
Will privacy be one of the victims of COVID-19?
Will Putin choose war, death and destruction?
Will Putin’s war in Ukraine make the EU stronger?
Will SURE shield EU workers from the corona crisis?
Will the WTO survive 2020?
Winds of change for EU-Morocco relations
With a looming winter gas crisis, the EU doesn’t need an empty symbol of solidarity
With a new German government incoming, the implications for Europe are substantial
With EU enlargement, it’s two big steps forward for Ukraine, but a more dubious one for the Western Balkans
With EU renewable policy, it’s time to focus on industrial demand instead of aggressive support for supply
With European defence on everyone’s mind, we need to remember that security begins at home
With Incredible India, one should always expect the unexpected
With Russia threatening Ukraine with war, what should the EU do?
With the AI Act, we need to mind the standards gap
With the Harris-Trump battle in full swing, the EU must take the future of the transatlantic relationship into its own hands
With the US leaving the WHO, Europe must urgently increase its global leadership in health preparedness – not weaken it
Women’s rights deserve protection, not partisan posturing
Working together, Global Gateway and the EPC could be a real power couple for growth and security – in Europe and beyond
Yes, COP29 was too little, too late. But it’s a reality we must accept – at least for now
Yes, there are more far-right MEPs – but the mainstream parties still hold the key to the EU’s agenda
Yes, this market turbulence is different but a new financial crisis is not inevitable
Yet another failure of EU leadership in the Western Balkans