EU climate policy based on GHG emissions reduction (mitigation) is coupled with measures aimed at responding … its Green Paper on adaptation in Europe, there is still need to develop an overall EU adaptation strategy. Moreover, such … for EU adaptation policy that addresses both concerns and which enables a transparent decision-making process. In the …

The EU has long assumed leadership in advancing domestic and international climate change policy. While pushing its …. The centrepiece of EU policy, however, has been the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), a cap-and-trade programme launched … in 2005. The ETS has been seen as a tool to ensure least-cost abatement, drive EU decarbonisation and develop a global …

differences in hours worked overall are much smaller than for unemployment.Using data from US states and EU member states, an … pandemic as it played out between March and November 2020. In the EU, unemployment showed little variation. The Non …-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) used in different US states and EU countries, as can be demonstrated through a regression analysis, did not …

, including the creation of FRONTEX (the EU agency responsible for coordinating the operational cooperation between member states …

In recent decades the EU has widened and deepened to such an extent that it now deals in almost all areas of policy …

With the Eastern Enlargement successfully completed, the EU is searching for a proper balance between internal security … and external stabilisation that is acceptable to all sides. This paper focuses on an EU foreign policy instrument that is … a case in point for this struggle: EC visa facilitation and readmission agreements. By looking on the EU's strategy on …

The EU routinely asserts that the promotion of democracy and human rights is central to its international identity …. However, while in some places the EU has a relatively strong record as a supporter of democratic values, it is failing to … EU is building on the initiatives it has pursued for the last two decades, the paper demonstrates that these policies …

Pessimism has been rampant in many EU-countries over the last decade, largely fed by lagging productivity growth in the … EU since the late 1990s and a perception that the US has a superior economic model. This perception has led to the view … that the only way to restore higher levels of productivity growth is by introducing deep structural reforms in the EU …