Analyses

The Analyses section provides brief research notes relating to four main streams: social media, political visions, public opinion and policy focus.

22 April 2021

Beyond wage devaluation in Spain?

By Joan Miró i Artigas

One of the most vibrant debates taking place concerns the limitations and possibilities that exist in the EU for going beyond austerity-based social and economic policies. In this post we ask to what extent the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the social policy responses it has been triggering, has altered this course, by focusing on the social and labour market policies adopted in reaction to the pandemic by a left-wing Southern European government, that of Spain.

22 April 2021

European solidarity before and after COVID: we are in this together?

By Stefano Ronchi

The issue of cross-national solidarity in the EU came to the fore 10 years ago, when the sovereign debt crisis unveiled the big inequalities that exist between member states. Back then, mistrust, more than solidarity, prevailed. This time, with the economic aftershocks of the pandemic, the music seems to have changed.

19 March 2021

Keeping the EU together after Brexit: an evolving challenge

By Anna Kyriazi

Despite the extraordinary challenge that Brexit has posed for the EU, the integrity and unity of the polity has been maintained until now. Even so, Brexit continues to carry a destabilizing potential for not only the EU, but also the UK.

5 March 2021

EAPN Poverty Watch 2020 online conference: is COVID supercharging poverty in the EU?

By Niccolo Donati

The year 2020 has transformed the challenge posed by poverty to all of Europe. Through increased functional pressure and restricted accessibility to what are deemed necessary resources (such as healthcare), the risk of poverty has risen manyfold. Now, the EU is at a turning point: either it fights poverty or it will allow poverty to rise to an unprecedented level.

27 February 2021

EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EASI): Policy Dossier

By Niccolo Donati

The EaSI programme is the main instrument through which the EU delivers its social innovation policy. It is a Swiss Army knife policy tool that includes three different instruments to achieve its goals. The programme comprises three axes, each representing a different facet of social innovation.

26 January 2021

European Green Deal: A change of perspective from the Commission?

By Giovanni Simioni and Niccolo Donati

The “Just Transition” approach has gained traction in recent years. It can be best conceptualised not as a rival approach to “Green Growth”, insofar as it does incorporate the concept of Green Growth and many of its policy instruments.

16 January 2021

Article 50: self-destruct button or safety valve?

By Anna Kyriazi and Niccolo Donati

As the Brexit process has finally concluded, this post goes back to the beginning asking why the EU has established the right to unilateral withdrawal, in the first place?

16 November 2020

Towards a Next Generation EU for an inclusive recovery?

By Francesco Corti, David Rinaldi and Christian Morabito

The Next Generation EU represents a unique opportunity that must be seized in order to guarantee a fair and inclusive recovery that meets citizens’ expectations. The design of the national recovery strategies and their implementation is essentially what will determine the fate of the Next Generation EU initiative.

6 November 2020

Myth: Europe is in need of a “Finalité Politique”

By Caterina Di Fazio and Mathieu Segers

A finalité politique is at odds with the nature of European integration. There is no end goal, and that is how it ought to be. By definition, the Europe of European integration is a volatile and hybrid institution, a temporary fix. A temporary fix that has to prove itself as an appealing and convincing version of that big post-war Western experiment with capitalism and democracy. Capitalism and democracy the European way, if you wish. Key to its attraction is that is never set in definite form, nor believes in such a thing.

30 October 2020

Reforming the Dublin Pact and Activating EU Solidarity: The Objectives of the New EU Pact on Migration and Asylum

By Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem

The increase in migratory flows towards the European Union (EU) during the 2014–2016 period was followed by a genuine political–institutional crisis and the paralysis of the Common European Asylum System. In 2020, the European Commission presented the New Pact on Asylum and Migration, a composite policy instrument that promises to deeply reform the common asylum policy.

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