This evaluation examined the support the European Commission’s DG for Development and International Cooperation (DEVCO) provided to Research and Innovation (R&I) in partner countries during the last EU budget period (2007-2013).

This independent report – with the wealth and breadth of knowledge it puts forward and the quality of the analysis it presents – gives us a research-based perspective on the post-2015 challenges we face.

This Final Report presents the outcome of the “Thematic global evaluation of the Commission support to decentralisation processes”. The Evaluation was commissioned by the DG DEVCO Evaluation Unit and was implemented between January 2010 and February 2012. The purpose of the evaluation is to...

The purpose of this evaluation, covering the period 2000-2006, is to provide the relevant external co-operation services of the European Commission (EC) and wider public with an independent evaluation of the EC aid channelled through civil society. The specific objectives of this forward looking...

This report synthesises data from a range of sources to estimate the size of subsidies to the energy sector in the 15 pre-2004 Member States of the European Union. It finds that the level of subsidies to fossil fuels remains high despite their environmental impacts, while support for renewable...

The objective of this study is twofold: first analyze how the implementation of the EU minimum energy tax policy in the new Member States will affect the enlarged EU and secondly analyze how the energy taxation policy can contribute to the climate policy in the enlarged EU. The main elements of...