Year: 2019 Authors: Carmen Descamps, Claudia Gamon, Gerrit Spriet, Francesca Strumia and Irina von Wiese European citizenship was introduced into the European legal order with the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Complementing national citizenship, it grants a variety of rights to 512 million Europeans. These comprise freedom of movement, political participation, consular protection, involvement in EU policy making and a right to […]

Year: 2019 Through bold investments and by acting in a coordinated and focused way, Europe should play a role in the area of AI that matches its economic weight. Only through deepened cooperation in pursuit of a common goal can the EU challenge major actors, such as the United States and China. If the EU wants to build on its […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Elin Jakobsson This policy brief is written by Elin Jakobsson and summarises the key findings from her report “The Politics of Climate Change and Migration”, included in the book Climate Change and Migration – Policy approaches towards a sustainable future. The report explores how the international community and the European Union (EU) have dealt with the issue […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Elin Jakobsson, Sten Stenbeck, Kerstin Eriksson and Fredrik von Matérn Climate change, in terms of both scale and potential impact, is a reality that threatens the most basic human needs, from food and water to human settlement patterns. While it is difficult to establish a direct causal link between climate change and migration, one of the major […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Jan Hylén and Robin Vetter. Edited by Erik Helldén At the start of 2019, most European policy professionals agreed that there was an itch that needed to be scratched. Amid all the discussion about what was going on with migration, climate change and the future of work, something was hovering above it all: digitalisation. Digitalisation is a buzzword […]

Year: 2019 Author: Elias Rosell Direct air capture (DAC) is a technology that enables carbon dioxide emissions to be removed from the atmosphere. It is very likely that carbon dioxide removal will be needed to reach the Paris agreement goals. A Liberal environmental policy should be technology-neutral. Instead of supporting certain chosen technologies, policymakers should create conditions for a market […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Aljaž Košmerlj, Ivan Bratko, Janek Musek, Kasia Söderlund, Aleks Jakulin, Nina Pejič Humans today have embraced the comfort of modern technology without really understanding how it works and the abnormal potential of the data accumulation that our devices have. These devices know exactly who we are, where we are, and what we are doing (besides thousands of other […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Kristijan Kotarski, Dominik Kirchdorfer, Mathias Sundin, Šárka Prát, Mette Kahlin McVeigh and Mattias Goldmann People walking in unbearably hot climates, in search of the last few jobs that have not yet been taken by robots owned by the super-rich… This is the image of the future you get from listening to current discussions and the media. With […]

Year: 2018 Authors: Péter Krekó, Alice Stollmeyer, Veronika Víchová and Alexey Yankowski Who wouldn’t want to read a real page-turner? An action thriller smartly combining historical, spy and science fiction? Except… This is not a novel. This is actually happening – now. In our world, our societies, our lives. And those who think or hope it is just a bad […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Maria Wolrath Söderberg and Nina Wormbs Flygskam. This Swedish word translates as “flight shame” and has spread across the world. The term refers to feeling guilt over the environmental effects of flying and is symbolic to a movement in which an increasing amount of Swedes are choosing not to fly. However, it is not just Swedes who […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Denis Cenuşă, Vano Chkhikvadze and Leonid Litra Launched in May 2009, the Eastern Partnership represents the Eastern dimension of European Union’s neighbourhood policy. The initiative comprises the deepening of relations – though in a differentiated manner – between the EU and the six eastern neighbouring countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Due to full […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Gergő Papp, Matúš Mikšík, Jakub Chabik, Ondrej Gažovič, Kārlis Ralfs Lapiņš, Veronika Špalková, Anna Maria Trawińska, Milosz Hodun, Catinca Hanganu and Serban Marinescu Elections to the European Parliament in Central and Eastern Europe proved that emotions play an important role in political discourse. The primary axis of the European narrative was built around stories that captivate the […]