I-BRIDGE's blog (Link Campus University's Research Centre on Global Affairs) - editor, Marco Emanuele - Critical thinking, complexity, international relations (Twitter, @Glob_Eye - Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/marco.emanuele.50)
Showing posts with label CEPS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CEPS. Show all posts
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Friday, 9 September 2016
Monday, 20 June 2016
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
A stable Libya would close the door to Daesh (Giovanni Faleg, CEPS)
Since the fall of the Gaddafi regime in 2011, everything has seemed to conspire against the transition process in Libya. The idea of a stabilisation force has met political resistance in most European countries, because there is little appetite for long-term interventions that carry a high risk of casualties. This author argues that, among other initiatives, ground forces are nevertheless a necessary component of stabilisation in this fragile country. He makes four recommendations to guide the engagement of external actors.
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/stable-libya-would-close-door-daesh
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/stable-libya-would-close-door-daesh
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
European Citizenship at the Crossroads: The Role of the European Union on Loss and Acquisition of Nationality (Sergio Carrera, Gerard-René de Groot, CEPS)
Published by Wolf Legal Publishers, this edited volume examines the changing role played by the European Union and international standards on loss and acquisition of nationality. It provides a comparative analysis of EU member states’ regulations, administrative practices, court rulings and statistical data on questions related to loss of nationality and European citizenship. In the various contributions, legal and academic specialists assess the multifaceted repercussions of the supranational venues of judicial and legal accountability over states’ autonomy and competences in deciding who is and who is not a citizen. Among the questions examined are the following: To what the extent do EU member states still hold the exclusive competence over domestic decisions in nationality matters? How do international and European legal principles and standards, as well as case law by European courts progressively affect their margin of manoeuvre in deciding who is and who is not a ‘citizen’? What are the repercussions of their obligations in safeguarding citizenship of the Union?
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/european-citizenship-crossroads-role-european-union-loss-and-acquisition-nationality
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/european-citizenship-crossroads-role-european-union-loss-and-acquisition-nationality
The Final Brexit Question: The known Plan A to remain or the unknown Plan B to leave (Michael Emerson, CEPS)
The terms for the UK to remain in the EU are now known, amounting to the status quo as amended by the agreement reached at the European Council on 18-19 February 2016, in response to Prime Minister David Cameron’s four requests (Plan A). The terms for leaving, however, are completely unknown, beyond vague talk about liberating the UK from regulation by Brussels. There is no known Plan B developed either by the British government or the secessionists. The choice to be offered in the referendum, now scheduled to take place on 23 June 2016, between the known Plan A and an unknown Plan B is an alarmingly hazardous matter for democratic deliberation. This paper therefore attempts to sketch three alternative Plan Bs, and to evaluate their qualities in relation to the Plan A. Two relatively simple plans (B.1 and B.2) have the virtue of clarity, and have some supporters, but are implausible for either economic or political reasons. This leads to consideration of a deeper Plan B.3, in which the UK would enter into complex negotiations with both the EU and the rest of the world to try and obtain the best possible outcome with secession. But this is found to be much more problematic than secessionists suggest and less advantageous than Plan A on economic grounds. In addition, by seceding, the UK has nothing to gain and a lot to lose in its status as a foreign policy actor in world affairs. Finally, there is the serious risk that secession by the UK from the EU could lead to disintegration of the UK itself through the secession of Scotland.
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/final-brexit-question-known-plan-remain-or-unknown-plan-b-leave
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/final-brexit-question-known-plan-remain-or-unknown-plan-b-leave
The EU deal to avoid Brexit: Take it or leave (Stefani Weiss, Steven Blockmans, CEPS)
Beyond the drama of the European Council summit of 18-19 February 2016, what became clear was the fundamental desire on the part of the leaders of all 28 EU member states to agree a deal on the British government’s demands for a renegotiated settlement on the UK’s relationship within the European Union. The deal has provided David Cameron with the political capital he needed to call a date for the in/out referendum and to lead a campaign for the UK to stay in the EU. Yet, for all the technical reforms packed into it, the deal is neither a crowd pleaser nor a vote winner. It does, however, mark a watershed acknowledgement that EU integration is not a one-directional process of ‘ever closer union’.
In this CEPS Special Report, Stefani Weiss and Steven Blockmans analyse the substance of the “Decision of the Heads of State or Government, meeting within the European Council, concerning a New Settlement for the United Kingdom within the European Union” and shed light on its legal character. They contextualise this EU deal to avoid Brexit, and draw on the conclusions reached in a simulation of European Council negotiations between representatives of think tanks in the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN), conducted by CEPS and the Bertelsmann Stiftung in October 2015.
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/eu-deal-avoid-brexit-take-it-or-leave
In this CEPS Special Report, Stefani Weiss and Steven Blockmans analyse the substance of the “Decision of the Heads of State or Government, meeting within the European Council, concerning a New Settlement for the United Kingdom within the European Union” and shed light on its legal character. They contextualise this EU deal to avoid Brexit, and draw on the conclusions reached in a simulation of European Council negotiations between representatives of think tanks in the European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN), conducted by CEPS and the Bertelsmann Stiftung in October 2015.
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/eu-deal-avoid-brexit-take-it-or-leave
Monday, 22 February 2016
Irregular immigration, trafficking and smuggling of human beings: policy dilemmas in the EU (Sergio Carrera, Elspeth Guild, CEPS)
The expert contributors to this edited volume, representing a multidisciplinary selection of academics, examine the treatment of irregular migration, human trafficking and smuggling in EU law and policy. The various chapters explore the policy dilemmas encountered in efforts to criminalise irregular migration and humanitarian assistance to irregular immigrants. The book aims to provide academic input to informed policy-making in the next phase of the European Agenda on Migration.
In his Foreword, Matthias Ruete, Director General of DG Home Affairs of the European Commission, writes: “This initiative aims to stimulate evidence-based policy-making and to bring fresh thinking to develop more effective policies. The European Commission welcomes the valuable contribution of this initiative to help close the wide gap in our knowledge about the smuggling of migrants, and especially the functioning of smuggling networks.”
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/irregular-migration-trafficking-and-smuggling-human-beings-policy-dilemmas-eu
In his Foreword, Matthias Ruete, Director General of DG Home Affairs of the European Commission, writes: “This initiative aims to stimulate evidence-based policy-making and to bring fresh thinking to develop more effective policies. The European Commission welcomes the valuable contribution of this initiative to help close the wide gap in our knowledge about the smuggling of migrants, and especially the functioning of smuggling networks.”
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/irregular-migration-trafficking-and-smuggling-human-beings-policy-dilemmas-eu
Monday, 15 February 2016
Gas demand for power generation peaked as early as 2010 (Fabio Genoese, Eleanor Drabik, Christian Egenhofer, CEPS)
The outlook for natural gas demand is often considered bright, especially for gas used to generate electricity. This is because gas is the cleanest of all fossil fuels. The carbon intensity of modern gas-fired power stations is less than 50% that of modern coal plants. Moreover, gas-fired units are well-suited to follow rapid swings in supply and demand due to their flexibility. In the future, these balancing tasks will become more and more important given the intermittent character of the supply of wind and solar power. Gas seems to hold out the promise of being a key pillar of the energy transition and the perfect partner of renewables. Given the EU’s long-term climate policy goals, however, there is strong evidence that demand for gas for purposes of power generation peaked as early as 2010.
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/gas-demand-power-generation-peaked-early-2010
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/gas-demand-power-generation-peaked-early-2010
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Europe’s Untapped Capital Market: Rethinking integration after the great financial crisis (CEPS)
In December 2014, ECMI and CEPS formed the European Capital Markets Expert Group (ECMEG) with the aim of providing a long-term contribution to the debate on the Capital Markets Union (CMU) project, proposed by the European Commission. After an intensive, year-long research effort and in-depth discussions with ECMEG members, this final report aims to rethink financial integration policies in the European Union and to devise an EU-wide plan to remove the barriers to greater capital markets integration. It offers a methodology to identify and prioritise cross-border barriers to capital markets integration and provides a set of policy recommendations to improve its key components: price discovery, execution and enforcement of capital markets transactions.
This report was drafted by Diego Valiante, Head of Financial Markets and Institutions at CEPS and Head of Research at ECMI, based on extensive research and discussions with the members of ECMEG, chaired by Francesco Papadia, former Director General of the European Central Bank and other international experts. ECMEG interacted with a broader Task Force including members from industry, as well as observers from EU institutions, national authorities and academia.
This report was drafted by Diego Valiante, Head of Financial Markets and Institutions at CEPS and Head of Research at ECMI, based on extensive research and discussions with the members of ECMEG, chaired by Francesco Papadia, former Director General of the European Central Bank and other international experts. ECMEG interacted with a broader Task Force including members from industry, as well as observers from EU institutions, national authorities and academia.
Monday, 1 February 2016
Fit for purpose?The Facilitation Directive and the criminalisation of humanitarian assistance to irregular migrants (CEPS)
This study assesses the implementation of the humanitarian exception provisions of the Facilitation Directive and their impact on irregular migrants, along with the organisations and individuals providing assistance to them within EU member states. It maps the existing international and EU legal frameworks on people smuggling and their implementation in the national law of selected member states, assessing them against international, supranational and regional human rights instruments as well as the EU Charter. It subsequently gathers and presents data on the prosecution and conviction rates of those who have provided humanitarian assistance to irregular migrants and identifies important knowledge gaps and methodological caveats.
Drawing on primary survey data, this study also explores the material, direct and perceived effects of the Facilitation Directive from the perspective of civil society and local authorities. It identifies the practical challenges and experiences of cities and civil society arising from implementation of the Facilitation Directive and puts forward a series of policy recommendations to the European Parliament for improving and amending the Directive. The study aims at enhancing the European Parliament’s ability to make sound, evidence-based policy directed towards key stakeholders in this area and at strengthening its important role in ensuring democratic accountability at a time when the ‘Facilitators’ Package’ is under revision.
Sergio Carrera is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs unit at CEPS and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Maastricht. Elspeth Guild is Senior Associate Research Fellow at CEPS and Jean Monnet Professor ad personam of European Immigration Law at Radboud University Nijmegen and Queen Mary, University of London. Ana Aliverti is Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick. Jennifer Allsopp is PhD candidate in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Maria Giovanna Manieri is Programme Officer, Platform for International Cooperation of Undocumented Migrants (PICUM). Michele LeVoy is Director, Platform for International Cooperation of Undocumented Migrants, PICUM). Mirja Gutheil and Ms Aurelie Heetman are Optimity Advisors, London.
This report was commissioned by the Civil Liberties and Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee of the European Parliament and can also be downloaded from the Parliament’s website:http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/supporting-analyses-search.html
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Implementing the Lisbon Treaty: Improving the Functioning of the EU on Justice and Home Affairs (CEPS)
This study examines the functioning of EU Justice and Home Affairs cooperation in light of the reforms and innovations introduced by the Lisbon Treaty since the end of 2009. It identifies the main challenges and deficits characterising the practical and effective implementation of these transformations and suggests specific ways for the European Parliament to address them. The study recommends that any future legislative reform or Treaty change should not promote or enable further differentiation in subsequent generations of EU AFSJ cooperation. Nor should it permit restricting or ‘lowering’ existing EU rights and freedoms enjoyed by European citizens and residents in EU JHA law. The Parliament should give priority to devising a mutual trust-building agenda for EU AFSJ cooperation based on three main policy actions focused on improving and strengthening: First, implementation and evaluation; Second, accountability, transparency and fundamental rights and third, the rule of law and fundamental rights.
Sergio Carrera is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs unit at CEPS and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Maastricht. Elspeth Guild is Senior Associate Research Fellow at CEPS and Jean Monnet Professor ad personam of European Immigration Law at Radboud University Nijmegen and Queen Mary, University of London.
This study was commissioned by the Policy Department for Citizen's Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee of the European Parliament and can also be downloaded from the Parliament’s website
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Monday, 25 January 2016
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)