This edited Working Paper addresses three fundamental questions concerning EU External Action after the Lisbon Treaty: the institutional position and allegiance of the newly-established European External Action Service, the future of the ‘left out’ Directorate-General for Trade and the...

In 2010, the European Union launched a new ten-year programme of initiatives as a successor to its earlier 'Lisbon agenda'. This essay compares and contrasts the new 'Europe 2020' agenda with its predecessor. It explores the comparative capabilities of integration projects like the Lisbon and...

This edited Working Paper addresses three fundamental questions concerning EU External Action after the Lisbon Treaty: the institutional position and allegiance of the newly-established European External Action Service, the future of the ‘left out’ Directorate-General for Trade and the...

Neo functionalism and its consequential foundations in the study of unity and the integration of nation-states in a non-coercive way have played a major role in the formulation of integration-oriented theories of governance. The European Union (EU) as a functional establishment has traveled a...

While there is a never-ending debate on Islamism, Islamist terrorism and the identity of Europe vis-à-vis growing Muslim communities in Europe, there are hardly any solid cross-national data being presented on the real extent of the Islamist threat facing Europe, and on the social conditions...

This book systematically evaluates the freely available data, contained in the European Social Survey and other international, open sources, on the problems of internal security and social policy in Europe for the Muslim and the non-Muslim populations in Europe. It is the attempt to try to...

This article portrays a bleak picture of European realities. Analyzing world social, gender, ecological and economic development on the basis of the main 9 predictors, compatible with the majority of the more than 240 published studies on the cross-national determinants of the human condition...

This paper by CEPS Research Fellow Piotr Kaczyński explores the possibilities offered to the EU as an actor in international negotiations as a result of the provisions and the ‘spirit’ of the Treaty of Lisbon and against the background of the complex internal political situation in the EU....

How effective are all those billions paid out by the Commission for the Lisbon process in the individual Member States? We apply regression analysis to measure the long-term structural budget problem of the European Union, often called "revenue problem," estimating which rich countries are above...

This paper evaluates achievements and shortcomings of the Lisbon Strategy launched by the European Union in the spring of 2000 aiming to increase the competitiveness of the European economy within ten years. A careful examination of the Strategy’s pros and cons shows that its general rationale...