Agricultural and Rural Policy
Senior Associate Research Fellow: Prof. Johan F.M. Swinnen Associate Research Fellow: Dr. Eleni Kaditi Research Assistant: Louise Knops DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES Nowadays, new economic, social and environmental challenges need to be addressed in Europe, which should be tackled with the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Agriculture is undoubtedly in the front line for these challenges, as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been the centre-piece of European...
Economic Policy
Team Dr. Daniel Gros, Director, CEPS Prof. Paul De Grauwe, Associate Senior Fellow, and University of Leuven Dr. Miroslav Beblavy, Associate Senior Fellow, and Member of the Slovak Parliament Jorgen Mortensen, Associate Senior Fellow Dr. Cinzia Alcidi, LUISS Research Fellow Dr. Mikkel Barslund, Research Fellow Dr. Jorge Nuñez Ferrer, Associate Research Fellow Dr. Felix Roth, Research Fellow and Editor of Intereconomics Dr. Zeynep Guldem Okem, Research Fellow Dr. Anna-Elisabeth Thum,...
Energy and Climate Change
Webpages covering specific topics: Energy Climate Change (Emissions Trading, Future Regime, Sectoral Approaches, CEPS Carbon Market Forum)   Over recent years, the European Union has progressed at increasing speed towards an integrated energy and climate change strategy. A first major step has been the 2007-2009 climate and energy package where member-states have accepted EU-wide the 2020 targets and regulation such the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) that affect their...
EU Neighbourhood, Foreign and Security Policy
This unit of CEPS has been extending its interests progressively since 1999 when it was triggered into activity by the war over Kosovo. There followed other projects concerning conflict regions in the European neighbourhood in the several years that followed: the Balkans, Cyprus, Caucasus, Middle East. In 2005 the European neighbourhood was initiated, and there has been a continuous stream of projects concerning EU policy towards East Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the South Mediterranean,...
Financial Markets and Institutions
  In the area of financial markets and institutions, CEPS runs one research unit and two independent research institutes: The Financial Institutions and Prudential Policy Unit (FIPP, since 2006) The European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI, since July 2005) The European Credit Research Institute (ECRI, since 1999) They aim at analyzing European financial market integration and at recommending steps to be taken to overcome hurdles to more integration, which is a key...
Justice and Home Affairs
Senior Associate Research Fellow: Prof. Dr. Elspeth Guild Senior Research Fellow & Head of Justice and Home Affairs Programme : Dr. Sergio Carrera Project Coordinator: Miriam Mir Researcher: Anaïs Faure-Atger Research Assistant: Joanna Parkin Research Assistant:  Joao Soares da Silva Research Assistant: Nicholas Hernanz Assistant Project Coordinator: Jacintha Liem Associate Senior Research Fellow: Dr. Peter Hobbing   DESCRIPTION OF...
Politics and Institutions
This unit follows horizontally institutional and political developments in the European Union. Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, Research Fellow Paul Ivan, Research Assistant Peadar ó Broin, Associate Research Fellow Marco Incerti, Research Fellow & Head of Communications Achievements The Politics and Institutions unit aims to monitor development of the EU institutions and to contribute to the general debate about the future of the EU. It also provides legal expertise to the...
Regulatory Affairs Programme
The CEPS Regulatory Affairs Programme was launched in January 2005 with the aim of exploring policy and regulatory challenges in the following areas:   Better regulation Internal Market  Competition Policy Trade Developments and Policy CEPS Digital Forum  Better Regulation Since January 2006 the CEPS Regulatory Affairs Programme (RAP) is coordinating the European Network for Better Regulation (ENBR-, that started as a three-year programme funded by the European Commission under...
Trade Developments and Policy
Core issues The core issues of the trade policy unit have evolved in line with changes in the policy agenda. During the early years of the 2004 enlargement, the focus of the unit was on the development of trade and investment relations with the ‘new periphery’ as well as EU’s trade relation with its exiting (e.g. US and Japan) and emerging trade partners (e.g. China and ASEAN). Later the policy agenda have concentrated on the developments in multilateral trade negotiations and...