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This Policy Brief looks at a concrete proposal on how to use markets to secure against risks in European gas supplies. Its aim is to come up with a crisis response mechanism to gas disruptions, which is still missing in the current Directive 2004/67/EC concerning measures to safeguard security...
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This paper is based on ongoing research being carried out in the context of the ADAM project (ADaptation And Mitigation strategies: supporting European climate policy), funded by the European Commission. While initial responses to the challenges of climate change concentrated on mitigation, in...
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In the wake of the Irish no-vote on the Treaty of Lisbon, numerous scenarios are currently being debated. This paper critically assesses the legality and political feasibility of the principal proposals and then puts forward an alternative 'Plan B', which the authors believe would amply satisfy...
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The January 2009 interruptions of gas supplies from Russia to the EU via Ukraine, following the earlier 2006 crisis … political relations between Russia and Ukraine. The recently agreed tri-partite (EU, Russia, Ukraine) monitoring system is a … EU, Russia and Ukraine negotiate the creation of a new business consortium to be granted a long-term concession to …
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The EU emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS) introduced in 2005 is the only mandatory cap-and-trade system operating in the … world today. Lessons could be taken from the EU stance which allows for flexibility in rules and realises emission …
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For some time now, CEPS has participated in a project funded by the European Commission called 'Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy' (ADAM). One research stream within the ADAM project focuses on the implications of mitigation and adaptation strategies for...
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Globalisation is more an opportunity than a menace and the European social model is not doomed. Globalisation is not a zero-sum game but there are undeniably adverse consequences. As a phenomenon of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, there can be little doubt that globalisation is something...
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EU and US. The third consequence is that the EU should immediately step up its policies to integrate Ukraine, with real …
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role and potential of the EU on policies related to an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). These policies lay at …
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This paper argues that the main challenge currently facing the EU is a community deficit: the low valuation the …, warns that the EU must either introduce strong measures of community building or else significantly scale back its plans for … collective action.He first cites illustrative data to show that there is a considerable level of disaffection from the EU project …
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