The objective of this evaluation is to provide an overall independent assessment of the Commission’s past and current cooperation with Colombia over the period 2002-2011. It also aims at identifying key lessons in order to improve the current and future strategies and programmes of the...

This evaluation covers European Commission support to agricultural commodities in all Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries over the period 2000-2009 in the context of the policies and approaches laid down in two Communications that set out the European Union’s (EU) Action Plan for...

This brief reviews the evolution of the US and the European labour markets since the beginning of the financial crisis. In the US, the unemployment rate and the share of long-term unemployment grew very fast, during the crisis, thereby reaching levels close to those in the EU. Does that mean...

Policy attention to the security industry increased substantially after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11th, 2001. With an increased demand for security, the global security market grew a tenfold to around €100 billion in 2011. Many studies expect that growth of the worldwide...

This paper provides a simple weekly model of the regular supply of liquidity in the euro area, with a view to understanding the functioning of the euro area money market. The main result of the analysis is that liquidity has normally been provided by the ECB in a neutral and smooth manner, but...

The purpose of this evaluation is to provide policy-makers and managers of the Commission’s relevant external co-operation Services as well as other relevant DGs (such as DG Trade and DG Environment), and the EC Delegations in Chisinau and Kiev, with an independent assessment of the EC...

This evaluation assesses the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the European Commission’s support to its partner countries in the energy sector. It covers interventions designed or implemented during the 1996-2007 period in all the external cooperation partner...

This evaluation commissioned by the European Commission aims at providing an overall independent assessment of its external cooperation with partner countries through the organisations of the UN family. It covers the partnership between the Commission and the UN to the extent of the...

This evaluation commissioned by the European Commission aims at providing an overall independent assessment of its aid delivery through Development Banks and the EIB during the period 1999-2006. It concerns financial flows or “channelling” from the Commission to the aforementioned...