This paper describes four key drivers behind the adjustment difficulties in the periphery of the eurozone: • The adjustment will be particularly difficult for Greece and Portugal, as two relatively closed economies with low savings rates. Both of these countries combine high external debt...

This paper is the first in a series that will investigate normative foreign policy and forms part of a new project intended to explore fundamental aspects of foreign policy at the global level. Subsequent papers in the series will apply the conceptual framework developed in this paper to five...

This is the second in a series of papers from a new project entitled quot;Who is a normative foreign policy actor? The European Union and its Global Partnersquot;. The first paper - entitled Profiling Normative Foreign Policy: The European Union and its Global Partners, by Nathalie Tocci, CEPS...

This paper points out that education should be the central objective of the post-2010 Lisbon Process. Compared to other OECD countries, the member states of the European Union perform poorly when it comes to key indicators of innovative potential, such as the percentage of students enrolled in...

We derive an analytic expression describing how health costs and death counts of the Covid-19 pandemic change over time as vaccination proceeds. Meanwhile, the disease may continue to spread exponentially unless checked by Non Pharmacological Interventions (NPI). The key factors are that the...