Centre For European Policy Studies imprint: 19 books
Assessing European Neighbourhood Policy
Perspectives from the Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Several events in the past few years have dramatically shown how the interests of European citizens are directly affected by the stability, security and prosperity of their neighbouring regions. At the same time, the European Union and its member states face many challenges and dilemmas in designing...
The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy
An Imperfect Storm
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period. The outcome has major implications for the EU’s budget and farmers’ incomes, but also for Europe’s environment,...
Rule-Makers or Rule-Takers?
Exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an effort by the United States and the European Union to reposition themselves for a world of diffuse economic power and intensified global competition. It is a next-generation economic negotiation that breaks the mould of traditional trade...
The Great Financial Plumbing
From Northern Rock to Banking Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The financial crisis has led to a far-reaching redesign of the European regulatory and supervisory framework. Following the commitments made in the context of the G-20, but also reacting to internal shortcomings, the EU engaged in a massive program to re-regulate financial markets. The EU furthermore...
Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
For Ukraine, the signing of the Association Agreement and the DCFTA with the European Union in 2014 was an act of strategic geopolitical significance. Emblematic of the struggle to replace the Yanukovych regime at home and to resist attempts by Russia to deny its ‘European choice’, the Association...
Direct Democracy in the EU
The Myth of a Citizens' Union
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The European Union is grappling with a democracy problem. The succession of crises which have plagued the increasingly executive EU for years, has led to a rising cacophony of voices calling for fundamental change to the integration project. Yet despite the seismic shock of the Brexit referendum and...
Europe's Untapped Capital Market
Rethinking Financial Integration After the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The quality of financial integration is one of Europe’s principal concerns in the aftermath of the great crisis. The lack of risk sharing lies at the heart of the financial instability produced by the rapid retrenchment of capital flows within national boundaries. The limited cross-border banking...
The Future of Retail Financial Services
What Policy Mix For a Balanced Digital Transformation?
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In recent years, the digitalisation of retail financial services – retail payments, current/savings accounts, consumer/housing credit, car insurance, property insurance and health insurance – has accelerated significantly. While policy-makers are gradually creating the necessary conditions to...
Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The signing of the Association Agreement and DCFTA between Ukraine and the European Union in 2014 was an act of strategic, geopolitical significance in the history of Ukraine and Europe itself. Emblematic of a struggle to replace a corrupt, oligarch-controlled regime at home and to resist attempts...
Tomorrow's Silk Road
Assessing an EU-China Free Trade Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This CEPS book comprises a first-ever economic and regulatory analysis of a possible Free Trade Area (FTA) between China and the EU, whose design is supposed to be 'deep and comprehensive'. It provides an overview of the global economic environment in which EU-Chinese economic relations have developed...
Deepening EU-Moldovan Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
For Moldova, the signing of the Association Agreement and the DCFTA with the European Union in 2014 was an act of strategic geopolitical significance. Of all the EU’s eastern neighbours, Moldova is objectively the most European on several counts, including sharing a common history, language, culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
At a time when many regions of the world, including Europe, see a resurgence of authoritarianism, three countries of Eastern Europe – Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova – are struggling to counter this trend with the aim of developing European-style democracies in the framework of their Association...
Financing the EU Budget
Moving Forward or Backwards?
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Often described as complex, opaque and unfair, the EU budget financing system is an “unfinished journey.” One of the most critical issues is that EU revenue, drawn from the cashbox of national taxation, remains impalpable to the general public.
The nature of the EU as a union of states...
Deepening EU-Georgian Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The purpose of this Handbook is to make the legal content of the Association Agreement clearly comprehensible. It covers all the significant political and economic chapters of the Agreement, and in each case explains the meaning of the commitments made by Georgia and the challenges posed by their...
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