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Think Tank Review - May 2021

Travel restrictions - Council recommendations

 

Key lessons of the current response to COVID-19, the national recovery and resilience plans also targeting climate and the digital transition, the primacy of EU law, the digital services act, the future role of hydrogen, the three seas initiative, the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement, and President Biden’s 100 days in office are some of the topics covered in the Think Tank Review.

COVID-19

  • Towards a more resilient Europe post-coronavirus: options to enhance the EU's resilience to structural risks
  • The effect of Covid-19 on EU democracies
  • Economic policy for a pandemic age: how the world must prepare
  • Labour market responses to the Covid-19 crisis in the United States and Europe
  • Gender equality in international relations: the slow implementation of established norms
  • Globalización y pandemia
  • Trade policy and medical supplies during Covid-19: ideas for avoiding shortages and ensuring continuity of trade 

Competitiveness

  • Europe’s capacity to act in the global tech race: charting a path for Europe in times of major technological disruption
  • Europe in the geopolitics of technology: connecting the internal and external dimensions
  • Batteries require battery minerals, should Europe ramp up its efforts to secure them?
  • Technological competition: can the EU compete with China?

Economic and financial affairs

  • National recovery and resilience plans: empowering the green and digital transitions?
  • Prévenir la fraude dans l’emploi des fonds du plan de relance européen sans retarder leur déboursement
  • Central bank digital currency and governance: fit for purpose?
  • Reset required: the euro area crisis management and deposit insurance framework

Environmental issues

  • Europe’s green moment: how to meet the climate challenge
  • A transition for the citizens? Ensuring public participation in the European Green Deal
  • From coal to low carbon: coal region development opportunities under EU recovery programmes
  • Le système européen d’échange de quotas: le rôle de la tarification du carbone dans l’innovation verte

 Foreign affairs

  • Strategic autonomy and the transformation of the EU: new agendas for security, diplomacy, trade and technology
  • L’Union européenne entre autonomie stratégique et souveraineté technologique : impasses et opportunités
  • Built to order: how Europe can rebuild multilateralism after Covid-19
  • La iniciativa de los tres mares: configuración y consecuencias geopolíticas mundiales
  • What will the impact be if Nord Stream 2 is completed?
  • Is the European Union’s investment agreement with China underrated?