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  • 16. julij 2020

Think Tank Review - July 2020

Charles Michel

 

 

Ahead of the European Council on 17 - 18 July, dedicated to the recovery plan and a new long-term EU budget, think tank reports offer extensive coverage of the EU's response to tackle Covid-19. The expectations and challenges of the German Presidency of the EU Council, a 'fresh start' for the new pact on migration and asylum, the evaluation of the Eastern Partnership and Europe's place in an emerging multipolar order also feature in the July Think Tank Review.

COVID-19

  • A new policy toolkit is needed as countries exit Covid-19 lockdowns
  • Europe's pandemic politics: how the virus has changed the public’s worldview
  • The EU budget: a Hamilton moment?
  • A European Covid-19 recovery programme marking a sea-change in European integration
  • Is the Covid-19 crisis an opportunity to boost the euro as a global currency?
  • Health sovereignty: how to build a resilient European response to pandemics
  • Emergency powers, Covid-19 and the new challenge for human rights  

EU politics and institutions

  • The German Council Presidency: managing expectations
  • Deliberative democracy in the EU: countering populism with participation and debate 

Economic and financial affairs

  • A roadmap to completing the banking union
  • Should Denmark and Sweden join the banking union?

Competitiveness

  • Capital dynamics, global value chains, competitiveness and barriers to foreign direct investment and capital accumulation in the EU
  • Which kind of supply chain for Europe?
  • Finding a European way: the EU’s quest to promote the data economy 

Justice and home affairs

  • The impact of the general data protection regulation (GDPR) on artificial intelligence
  • Return directive on common standards and procedures in member states for returning illegally staying third-country nationals: implementation report  

Foreign affairs

  • An initiative to end the standstill: desirable security policy objectives of a united EU
  • La politique de Partenariat oriental de l’Union européenne: dix ans après
  • How states could respond to non-state cyber-attackers
  • The EU’s external action on counter-terrorism: development, structures and actions
  • Europe in a multipolar world

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