Think Tank Review - May 2023

EU politics and institutions

Papers analyse the successful crisis management of the Czech Presidency of the Council in a period where the war in Ukraine started in 2022, consider how to stabilise liberal democracies and point to the positive evolution of the European project.

Institut pro Evropskou Politiku EUROPEUM

• 2022 Czech presidency: a surprising success

Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies

• Culture wars in focus: how to stabilise liberal democracies and regain ground for the centre–right parties

Fondation Robert Schuman

• The European Union's new life

International Crisis Group

• An island divided: next steps for troubled Cyprus

Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos

• La desinformación como amenaza para la democracia: el caso del Brexit

EU policies

Think tanks analyse how the European Commission and member states are working on competitiveness, noting the lack of new policies regarding the pharmaceutical industry. About Economic and Financial affairs, papers discuss the main goals of the EU Union for an economic integration, for example, strengthening the role of the euro and the single market, which is considered the most successful integration experiment in history. However, some think tanks argue that the European Union needs even greater integration, both economically and politically, and strategic autonomy. On environment, papers argue for accelerating the energy transition to strengthen European security and discuss changes on emissions and industrial production. About Justice and home affairs, papers analyse relations between migration and climate impacts.

Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space)

European Centre for International Political Economy

• Strategic autonomy and the competitiveness of Europe’s innovative pharmaceutical sector: a wake-up call

Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations

• On the necessity of defending Belgian interests in outer space

Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations

• The CRM act in a global perspective

European Centre for International Political Economy

• What is wrong with Europe’s shattered single market? Lessons from policy fragmentation and misdirected approaches to EU competition policy

European Centre for International Political Economy

• Reforming standard essential patents: trade, specialisation, and international jurisprudence

Real Instituto Elcano

• El cumplimiento basado en el riesgo o risk-based compliance, pieza cardinal del nuevo derecho digital europeo

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

• Industrial policy for a new growth model: a toolbox for EU-CEE countries

Institute of International and European Affairs

• Can the leopard change its spots? Competitiveness, industrial policy, and state aid in the European Single Market

Institut Montaigne

• Cross-border data flows: the choices for Europe

Economic and Financial Affairs

Foundation for European Progressive Studies

• Strengthening the global role of the euro

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• The multiannual financial framework

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• The next steps in EU economic integration

Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada

• ¿Cuál ha sido la evolución del gasto por funciones en España y en la UE (2015-2021)?

Real Instituto Elcano

• El impacto de la inflation reduction act en las relaciones transatlánticas

Real Instituto Elcano

• El techo de la deuda en EEUU y sus implicaciones internacionales

Real Instituto Elcano

• Estabilidad financiera y estabilidad de precios: dos caras de la misma moneda

Tænketanken EUROPA

• Stigende offentlige udgifter i Europa vil kræve benhårde politiske prioriteringer

Tænketanken EUROPA

• Fører amerikansk bankkrak til genoplivning af EU’s bankunion?

Centre for European Policy Studies

• How to save the Stability and Growth Pact

Centre for European Policy Studies - ECMI European Capital Markets Institute

• Tackling offshore tax evasion and avoidance: progress has been made, but this is not enough

Bruegel

• The longer-term fiscal challenges facing the European Union

Bruegel

• Fixing Germany’s fixes of the European Commission’s fiscal governance proposal

Bruegel

• The EU Recovery and Resilience Facility falls short against performance-based funding standards

Bruegel

• Decentralised finance: good technology, bad finance

Education / Youth / Culture / Sport

Centre for European Policy Studies

• How can early childhood education and care policies empower citizens? Recommendations for an effective EU agenda

Employment / Social Policy / Health and Consumer Affairs

Institute of International and European Affairs

• Action on poverty in Europe: fifty years ago

European Trade Union Institute

• Report on the social security rights of short-term third-country national migrant workers

Foundation for European Progressive Studies

• The road to a just transition: a comparative analysis of territorial just transition plans

Environmental Issues

Institute for European Environmental Policy / Ecologic Institute

• Environmental and climate assessments of CAP strategic plans: summary of impact based on four key member states

Istituto Affari Internazionali

• Green deal watch no 9: catching up on green tech

Atlantic Council

• Accelerating the energy transition to strengthen european energy security: key barriers to overcome

Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos

• Los minerales estratégicos: el ser o no ser de la descarbonización y la transformación digital de la UE

Centre for European Policy Studies

• Rising to the challenge: EU actorness in climate policy and its global impact

Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung

• Impacts of ownership changes on emissions and industrial production: evidence from Europe

CREA Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air

• The Laundromat: how the price cap coalition whitewashes Russian oil in third countries

Chatham House - The Royal Institute of International Affairs

• Europe’s pursuit of securing critical raw materials for the green transition

Institut für Europäische Politik

• Rechtsstaatlichkeit unter Druck: Resilienz statt Reaktion

E3G

• World Bank Group Paris Alignment draft methodology needs work

Justice and Home Affairs

European Policy Centre

• Funding the EU’s external migration policy: ‘same old’ or potential for sustainable collaboration?

Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos

• La política migratoria europea: la geopolítica y el principio de solidaridad

Fondation Robert Schuman

• European anti-propaganda policies

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik

• Migration in the context of climate foreign policy

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik

• Double-edged sword: how to engage returnee networks in migrant reintegration

Centre for European Policy Studies

• A recipe for success? Assessing the EU’s actorness and effectiveness in the data protection domain

Transport / Telecommunications / Energy

Institut français des relations internationales

• The Europeanisation of the energy transition in central and eastern EU countries: an uphill battle that can be won

Fondation pour l’innovation politique

• Pour un nouvel ordre énergétique européen

Bertelsmann Stiftung

• Technological capabilities and the twin transition in Europe

Chatham House - The Royal Institute of International Affairs

• Recalibrating assumptions on AI towards an evidence-based and inclusive AI policy discourse

Institute of International and European Affairs

• Data collection for internet researchers under data protection regimes

Institut Montaigne

• Évolution des technologies numériques: les arbitrages encore possibles

Foreign and security policy / Defence

In the area of trade, papers focus on EU-Africa relations and the importance of creating long-term partnerships with countries in Africa. For example, the case of Kenya and its textile exports. Other papers comment on the main goals of the forthcoming NATO summit in Vilnius in July, such as strengthening Ukraine’s relationship with NATO and the accession of Sweden as a formal member of NATO. Also, the US-EU Trade and Technological Summit (TTC), cooperation between Europe and China, and relations with Russia and with Belarus are topics discussed by think tanks.

Istituto Affari Internazionali

• EU-Turkey-UK triangulation: the key to Euro-Atlantic security

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

• Policy brief on the impact of narratives in potential migrants’ decisions

European Policy Centre- Friedrich Naumann Foundation

• Advancing military mobility in Europe: an uphill battle

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies

• Analysis of and recommendations for European naval presence in the Indo-Pacific region

European Centre for Development Policy Management

• Gender equality in EU external action: the gender action plan and the women, peace and security agenda

Centre for European Reform

• Protecting Europe’s critical infrastructure from Russian hybrid threats

Atlantic Council

• Defining success for NATO’s Vilnius summit: a primer

Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych

• Strengthening deterrence a priority for NATO at the Vilnius summit

Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Ευρωπαϊκής και Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής

• Mapping EU defence collaboration: one year on from the Versailles declaration

Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos

• Estrategia Europea de seguridad marítima: seguimos navegando en régimen de «avante poca»

Centre for European Policy Studies

• Driving progress forward: EU actorness on the Sustainable Development Goals

Institut français des relations internationales

• TB2 Bayraktar: grande stratégie d’un petit drone

European Policy Centre- Atlantic Council

• The US-EU trade and technology Council: assessing the record on data and technology issues

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies

• Competitie tussen grootmachten en maatschappelijke stabiliteit in Nederland: de risico’s van Russisch gas, Chinese grondstoffen en Taiwanese chips voor vitale sectoren

European Centre for Development Policy Management

• Circular threads: what EU policies mean for sustainable textile exports from Kenya

Foreign Affairs Institute

• Greece’s trans-Mediterranean geostrategy

Centre for European Policy Studies

• The EU-Africa partnership and development aid: assessing the EU’s actorness and effectiveness in development policy

Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations

• Here are four things the West gets wrong about Africa

Centre for European Reform

• Can the European political community be a bridge between the UK and the EU?

Observer Research Foundation

• The EU after the Ukraine cirisis: juxtaposing issues of convergence and divergence

Mercator Institute for China Studies

• De-risking viewed from China + EU anti-coercion instrument

E3G

• Priorities for EU-US cooperation on clean energy

German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Watching China in Europe - April 2023

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• Foreign policy reorientation: feminist foreign and development policy in ministerial documents and debates

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• Die Krisengovernance der Europäischen Union: mehr Verantwortung braucht mehr demokratische Legitimation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik

• After Ostpolitik: a new Russia and Eastern Europe policy based on lessons from the past

Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku

• Preživeti rat: odnosi Rusije i Zapadnog Balkana nakon rata u Ukrajini

Institut français des relations internationales

• Visite d'Emmanuel Macron en Chine: la stabilité du détroit de Taïwan, une priorité pour la France

Chatham House - The Royal Institute of International Affairs

• Rethinking Western policy towards Belarus

Global affairs

Think tanks analyse transition plans for reducing emissions in the real economy and advancing a green hydrogen agenda in the G20. Other papers point to China’s innovation ecosystem and the accelerating fragmentation in the global economy, the changing dynamics of the G7, G20, and BRICS and the importance of informal multilateral cooperation, as well as covering the implications of the China-US relationship for the EU and looking into human rights diplomacy in an era of polarisation.

Institute for Public Policy Research

• The end of greenwashing? Driving decarbonisation in the real economy

LUISS School of European Political Economy

• Greenhouse gases mitigation: global externalities and policymakers’ short-termism

Institut français des relations internationales

• La stratégie minière russe: ambitions géopolitiques et défis industriels

Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet

• Policy measures and foreign policy developments under Xi Jinping

Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet

• The return of bipolarity? A snapshot of the accelerating fragmentation in the global economy: part 1

Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet

• The return of bipolarity? A snapshot of the accelerating fragmentation in the global economy: part 2

Ulkopoliittinen instituutti

• The changing dynamics of the G7, G20 and BRICS: informal multilateral cooperation is increasingly important in an era of strategic competition

Ecologic Institute

• Advancing a green hydrogen agenda in the G20: challenges and opportunities of the G20 as a green hydrogen forum

Ulkopoliittinen instituutti

• The United States and regional great power rivalry: can America still pass the Mearsheimer test?

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Sahel: why stabilization efforts should address internal displacement

RAND Europe

• Truth decay and national security intersections, insights, and questions for future research

Atlantic Council

• Kazakhstan could lead Central Asia in mitigating the world’s energy and food shortages

Mercator Institute for China Studies

• China's innovation system and the localization dilemma

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• Qatar's foreign policy: decision-making processes, baselines and strategies

Bruegel

• Global trends in countries‘ perceptions of the Belt and Road Initiative

Център за изследване на демокрацията

• Breaking the code: Russian and Chinese disinformation and illicit financial flows in southeast Europe

Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik

• Kosovo’s youth: overcoming challenges and creating opportunities

Institut français des relations internationales

• Chine/États-Unis : l’Europe en déséquilibre

Institut français des relations internationales

• La dissuasion intégrée américaine: pertinence et limites du concept

Chatham House - The Royal Institute of International Affairs

• Human rights diplomacy: navigating an era of polarization

Chatham House - The Royal Institute of International Affairs

• Coordinating international responses to Ethiopia–Sudan tensions

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