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The Western Balkans on the road to the European Union

Given its geographical location, the region is important to the EU in terms of security, stability, trade and transit routes. The Western Balkan count

What is the financial balance of EU membership for central Europe?

EU membership led to major financial and economic advantages to central European Member States, partly by encouraging foreign investment. Widespread f

What future for Europe?

The Commission's White Paper on the future of the EU sets out five scenarios, but misses the fundamental questions facing Europe. How should the EU in

Designing a new EU-Turkey strategic gas partnership

The 2014 Ukraine crisis reinforced the EU’s quest for security of gas supply. The European Commission released an Energy Union Communication in Febru

Designing a new EU-Turkey strategic gas partnership

This Policy Contribution discusses what the EU and Turkey can expect from the establishment of a new strategic energy partnership. The authors&nb

The harsh reality of Ukraine’s fiscal arithmetic

In this Policy Contribution Marek Dabrowski argues that Ukraine must accelerate and better manage its reform process so as to overcome fundamenta

Reinvigorating EU-Algeria energy cooperation

In this blogpost, Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann argue that, while natural gas currently represents the most important area of energy coo

Turkey and the EU after the election

The Gazprom case: good timing or bad timing?

What is the Gazprom antitrust case all about? And, considering the current EU gas market environment, has it arrived at a good time or bad time for G

EU to DO 2015-2019

Memos to the new EU leadership.

Ukraine: Can meaningful reform come out of conflict?

Ukraine urgently needs a complex programme of far-reaching economic and institutional reform, which will include both short-term fiscal and macroecono

Trade relations between the EU and its Eastern neighbours