The EU is developing a border management strategy aiming at an “integrated and global response” to the challenges posed by the phenomenon of irregular immigration through the common external borders. ...

CHALLENGE Research Paper No. 11 / 23 pages This paper assesses the implications of the European Commission Communications on the evaluation and future development of FRONTEX (European Agency for the ...

European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes (ENEPRI) Research Report No. 54 / 36 pages This report presents an empirical typology of pension regimes in the European Union, the US, Canada, ...

CHALLENGE Research Paper No. 12 / 27 pages The relation between liberty and security has been highly contestable over the past 10 years in the EU integration process. With the expansion of the EU’s ...

The Barcelona process so far has been a valuable systemic/institutional advance in Euro-Med relations and a confidence-building measure on a large scale.

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 ...

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 financial crisis had a significant impact on the levels of trust that citizens place in the system and its institutions. Recent data from Eurobarometer show a significant fall in confidence on the ...

Situated in southern Serbia and bordering on Macedonia and Kosovo, Presevo Valley is home to Serbia’s Albanian minority. Although the Valley has been calm in… ...