Can ethnographic case studies and quantitative research help to understand the ways stigmatised or conflictual youngsters engage with social, environmental and political issues, and how they create opportunities for social change? How will the concept of “democratic efficacy” help to counter pop...
Much has changed since the creation of the Joint Africa-European Union (EU) Strategy in 2007. The developing world has been changing fast. Development policy and practices are also transforming, albeit at a slower pace. The divide between emerging economies and ‘fragile states’ is increasing. Th...
The aim of this Report is to help policy makers working in different government levels involved in Smart Specialisation (S3) processes to understand how multilevel governance operates in their context and also how they can develop and facilitate its construction in their S3 strategies. The motiv...
In 2019 the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG), set up by the European Commission, published the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. The third chapter of those Guidelines contained an Assessment List to help assess whether the AI system that is be...
Building on the progress of the first High-Level Policy Dialogue on the Donbas region (HLPD), which had discussed the lack of a credible socio-economic development strategy and the lack of proper policies, implementation mechanisms, data and resources as some of the most important obstacles on t...
The new EU-Africa Strategy presented by the Commission on 9 March puts a reinforced emphasis on the creation of a real partnership with a continent whose relevance for Europe is growing by the day. The three briefings focus on different aspects of this new partnership, the first one dealing with...
In the legislative framework for the 2014-2020 ESI Funds the partnership principle has been strengthened. Article 5 of the Common Provision Regulation (CPR) makes it compulsory for each ESI Fund programme to organise a partnership at all programming stages and at all levels. A European Code of C...
EU citizens have the right to free movement within the EU. At the same time, the current pandemic has led to various restrictions across the EU. In order to provide clarity to citizens and make their lives easier Member States have agreed to improve their coordination....
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...
