The provision of critical functions at global, national or regional level Is there a need for further legal/regulatory clarification if liquidation is the default option for failing banks?

The world has changed in many ways since 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, along some critical axes, both from an economic and emissions points of view. Moreover, and this cannot be quantified ...

The optics of this week’s planned Alaska meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are ...

Lax financial conditions can foster credit booms. The global credit boom of the last decade led to large capital flows across the world, including large movements of resources from the Northern ...

The world of work is being reshaped by AI, which means it is more important than ever to understand the impact that AI will have on jobs, skills, and the way we perform our roles.

This study analyses the use by the European Union of the novel concept of ‘targeted sanctions’ in the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy.

This Special Report examines the policies pursued by the European Central Bank (ECB) since the inception of the euro. The ECB was originally set up to pursue price stability, with an eye also to ...

Drafting of a Policy brief for the European Parliament, INCOM Committee, on fake news. Fake news is certainly not a new phenomenon. However, the Internet age has led to the emergence of new challenges ...

Following the amendments put forward by the European Parliament in February, a good compromise is in sight to move forward on the Commission’s proposal for a Services Directive, which is intended to ...

The increasingly frequent imposition of sanctions by the EU over the past decade has not been accompanied by a thorough pre-assessment and contingency planning stage, which, argue the authors, has led ...

In person event Caught between an aggressive Russia and a disengaging US, Europe is ramping up its defence spending. By ...

In the context of the EU transition to a low-carbon economy, the gas industry will face significant transformations over the next decades up to 2050 and beyond. This report reviews the findings of the ...