Research > EU, politics and institutions
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EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability – EU IDEA
Start/End: 2019 - currentThe recent evolution of the European Union’s politics and policies has demonstrated that differentiation can no longer be treated as an anomaly in the integration process. This has posed a key set...
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EU Global Strategy (EUGS) Watch
Start/End: 2018 - currentThe EUGS Watch project – launched by the IAI and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) – aimed at critically assessing how the goals included in the Strategy are translating into...
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Europe's External Action and the Dual Challenges of Limited Statehood and Contested Orders - EU-LISTCO
Start/End: 2018 - 2021Two sources of risks characterise the EU’s regional and global security environments: 1) areas of limited statehood (ALS), in which central government authorities and institutions are too weak to...
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EU Multi-annual financial framework for 2021-2027. Resources, tools and possible developments
The project, inaugurated with a kick-off meeting held at the IAI on 7 November 2017, led to the publication of six policy papers prepared by experts in the sector. Three of them deal with...Start/End: 2017 - current -
Towards a Citizens’ Union - 2CU
Start/End: 2017 - currentWhile anti-EU parties’ political narratives are build on the idea of ‘taking back control’, recent Eurobarometer polls suggest that European citizens want to see a better functioning EU in core...
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European Think-Tanks Group (ETTG)
Start/End: 2017 - currentIAI is part of the European Think Tanks Group (ETTG) together with four other leading European international cooperation think tanks: the German Development Institute (DIE), the European Centre...
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EU-CIVCAP - Preventing and responding to conflict: developing EU CIVilian CAPabilities for a sustainable peace
Start/End: 2015 - currentPreventing the outbreak of conflicts and promoting a sustainable peace remains a key challenge for policy-makers and analysts. The EU and Member States should acquire adequate capabilities in...
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Mercator European Dialogue
Start/End: 2015 - currentOver the past few years, the debates within and among EU member states on political issues have become more intense and often controversial. Following the Treaty of Lisbon, national parliaments...
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EU60: Re-Founding Europe. The Responsibility to Propose
Start/End: 2016 - 2017In recent years, a series of strategic challenges have shaken the foundations of the EU’s integration project, leading to the emergence of existential threats in the institutional, political and...
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Governing Europe
Start/End: 2015 - 2016The institutional architecture of the European Union (EU) and the different decision-making procedures regulating European policies pose several questions on the existence of a government for the...