The EU budget imposes a considerable number of conditionalities on the Member States in use of the EU budget, and more are being imposed in the next Multiannual Financial Framework. This study reviews ...

Regulation has for a long time been considered mainly as an obstacle to innovation, especially with respect to rules that create so-called “red tape”, or administrative burdens. But academics have ...

This CEPS legislative dataset is an updated version and successor to a Bruegel dataset that was most recently published on 6 ...

TWIN SEEDS International Policy Conference The challenges facing Europe – from the pandemic to geopolitical conflicts – ...

In recent weeks, EU leaders have voiced their support for strengthening the euro’s global role. Christine Lagarde has called ...

The second Trump administration has intensified the global reshuffling of geoeconomic alliances following China’s phenomenal ...

Webinar Late payments are a pervasive issue that significantly affect businesses and hinder business development and ...

With the second von der Leyen Commission prioritising European competitiveness and security in an era of geostrategic ...

The EU’s sustainability reporting rules urgently need to be recalibrated. What began as a bold legislative push to steer ...

Who we are Founded in Brussels in 1983, CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies) is a leading think tank and forum for debate on EU affairs, ranking among the top think tanks in Europe. With an ...

Deeds, not words. Despite the numerous reports (such as Draghi and Letta) and the clear momentum towards ‘more union’ for EU ...

In recent weeks, headlines have taken a sharp turn, with Anthropic’s CEO warning that AI could eliminate half of all… ...