Eu governance

Europe’s climate-resilience moment has arrived

As global warming impacts are increasingly felt, the EU should turn climate adaptation from a national responsibility into a genuine European policy

Simone Tagliapietra and Guntram B. Wolff

Jilted by Iceland – but Wider Europe is forming through new cooperation structures around the EU

Iceland’s rejection of EU membership talks should be seen against a backdrop of new methods of deeper collaboration, especially on security

Heather Grabbe

Europe’s challenges: what is new?

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Profit shifting, tax harmonisation and investment in the EU single market: a trilemma

Anti-avoidance success has made EU investment more tax-sensitive, strengthening the case for corporate tax coordination within the single market

Madalena Barata da Rocha, Roel Dom, Pascal Saint-Amans and Bo Sangers

Europe’s new anti-money laundering agency

How will AMLA help the EU crack down on financial crime?

Rebecca Christie, James H. Freis and Nicolas Véron

A sober look at the case for common European Union debt

More EU debt will not lower public borrowing costs or deepen markets without fiscal-union features, permanent issuance and credible fiscal backstops

Marie-Sophie Lappe and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Calls for EU financial-rule simplification should not spill over into lower standards

EU banking rules are under pressure for simplification, but reforms should cut complexity without weakening financial safeguards

Jesper Berg and Hans Geeroms

Europe’s rearmament problem is demand, not ‘help to buy’

A proposed bank to finance defence spending does not seem designed to fix more fundamental fragmentation problems, and may even reinforce them

Gene Frieda

Funktionieren die neuen europäischen Haushaltsregeln besser als die alten?

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

EU candidate countries acquis alignment dataset (2020-2025)

EU candidate preparedness is quantified from annual Commission reports, creating comparable scores across eight countries, policy areas and years

Marek Dabrowski and Maria Catarina Louro

Progress made by EU candidate countries on accession-related reforms

EU accession progress broadly tracks reform, but Montenegro’s advance and North Macedonia’s stalled talks show politics still matters

Marek Dabrowski and Maria Catarina Louro

Is EU enlargement merit-based or politically driven?

Marek Dabrowski