Analyses

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

5 September 2020

The EU’s response to the climate crisis, before and after COVID-19

By Anna Kyriazi

As the immediate threat to public health in the context of the COVID-crisis seems to have abated, there is a danger that economic reconstruction will undermine climate targets in Europe. Is a “Green Recovery” possible?

31 July 2020

SURE: What about a permanent instrument?

By Francesco Corti and Cinzia Alcidi

Short-time work (STW) schemes have proved to be the ace of Member States’ response to the social and employment crisis induced by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this scenario, the proposal of the Commission for a temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE), is to be welcomed as a bold and innovative move. Is the time ripe for the Commission to put the proposal forward for a permanent SURE?

24 July 2020

Minimum income reforms in crisis-ridden EU: social conditionality in the shadow of austerity

By Stefano Ronchi

Despite tight economic conditionality from the EU and international lenders, minimum income policy was expanded in some crisis-ridden European countries. When minimum income expansion was not triggered by domestic politics, the EU crucially intervened to put it on the agenda: ‘social conditionality’ made its appearance alongside economic conditionality.

8 July 2020

The EU Health Programme: Policy Dossier

By Niccolo Donati

This policy dossier is part of a series of analyses of the financial instruments available to the European Social Union (ESU). The Health Programme is an EU fund which fosters cooperation among EU countries in the Health field. The dossier will deal with the Health Programme history, policy goals, budget, and visibility.

29 June 2020

Sweden’s odd response to COVID-19

By Adele Lebano

EU’s competences in the field of public health are quite scant and mainly limited to supporting the modernization of national health systems’ and improving their efficiency. The lack of coordination between the Member States gave rise to a wide arrange of approaches, often contradictory.

12 June 2020

Emigration in Eastern and Southern Europe: the awakening giant

By Anna Kyriazi

Governments in Eastern and Southern Europe struggle to reverse emigration. Will emigration become the new big political issue in the region?

1 June 2020

Italian citizens and the COVID-19 pandemic: the safeguard of health, the economy and the role for EU solidarity

By euvisions

The survey aimed at exploring Italian citizens’ opinions during the period in which the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak. The underlying themes are the trade-offs between the safeguard of health, the economy and individual freedom, in their interplay with EU solidarity and the evaluation of the government’s policies.

29 May 2020

Social investment outcomes and policy complementarities: lessons for Social Europe

By Stefano Ronchi

Taking social investment seriously has become more important than ever before to jumpstart European welfare states after the COVID tragedy. A fair balance of social investment and social protection policies will be crucial if no person (or member state) is to be left behind.

16 May 2020

The European Solidarity Fund: Policy Dossier

By Niccolo Donati

During the recent COVID-19 outbreak, the concept of EU solidarity has become central to the EU debate. In this policy dossier, our objective is to analyse the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF), an instrument created in 2002 to aid Member States hit by an unforeseeable natural calamity.

8 May 2020

The crumbling of the dangerous idea? Austerity perceptions in the EU after the euro crisis

By Joan Miró i Artigas

Among the many things of the pre-Corona world that seem to have aged faster since the eruption of the pandemic is the macroeconomic commitment to fiscal restraint. In the last weeks, many pundits have forecast the decline of this principle in light of the massive fiscal stimuli that the post-COVID recovery will require. Will this sequence of ‘emergency Keynesianism’ rapidly followed by austerity be repeated this time?

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