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Science with and for Society (SwafS) projects aim to build effective cooperation between science and society, recruit new talent, and pair scientific excellence with social awareness and responsibility. SwafS has been instrumental in implementing institutional changes in universities and researc...

This study is part of the 'Re-thinking democracy' series, launched in December 2019 and devoted to analysing current and future challenges facing direct and representative democracy. The study describes current challenges to democratic principles and infrastructure across the world. It then expl...

Since the foundation of the multilateral trading system in 1947, world trade has expanded 300-fold, and today makes up more than 60% of global GDP, supporting jobs, growth and investment around the world. This is partly thanks to successive reductions in tariffs negotiated through the multilater...

This EPRS study compares and contrasts features of the work of the European Parliament with those of five national parliaments. It concentrates on some of the aspects discussed in the EP President's Focus Group exercise, which has, throughout 2021, considered ways to modernise and improve the Pa...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, analyses possible avenues for further political integration in the EU after Brexit. The study maps the multiple crises that the EU has wea...

Based on a large range of newly accessible archival sources, this study explores the European Parliament’s policies on the institutional reform of the European Communities between 1979 and 1989. It demonstrates how the Parliament fulfilled key functions in the process of constitutionalization of...

This Chaillot Paper looks at the police in the Arab world – an institution at the centre of political life but one that is very much under-researched. After years of attempts at reform, it seems that not much progress has been made in reducing corruption and violence, or increasing police effici...