The discussion presently taking place in the large eurozone economies about the reform of the social welfare state is dominated by two assertions: Western Europe as an investment location is too expensive due to its high tax burden, and, second, countless jobs are threatened from low-wage...

This evaluation of the Greenland Decision (GD) will feed into the Mid-Term Review of the European Union’s 2014-2020 External Financing Instruments (EFIs), taking place in 2017. The evaluation assesses whether the instrument is fit for purpose to deliver EU resources in keeping with the EU‘s...