One of the key innovative elements of the Lisbon Treaty was the creation of a European Citizens’ Initiative. Egmont Paper 59 evokes the main legal elements of the European Citizens’ […]
In an age of major power shifts, which we know from history always to be particularly dangerous, different scenarios are possible; the only promising one is that of more and […]
This briefing is a revised version of the note ‘Land Issues and Conflict in Eastern DRC’, prepared for the DRC Affinity Group and published by the Social Science Research Council. […]
With the aim of breaking the negative feedback loop between Europe’s financial and sovereign debt crises, the EU decided to create a common supervisory framework for the banking sector: the […]
The relationship between transitional justice and democracy is complex and contested. Enquiring into the nature of this relationship requires a greater focus on issues of institutional design of transitional justice […]
The idea of introducing contracts between Member States and the EU on structural reforms has its merits, it also has several disadvantages. Most notably, the contracts risk rendering European economic […]