Peter Becker explains how under exceptional circumstances an equally exceptional compromise was reached in the budget negotiations and what commonalities and deviations from known negotiation patterns exist. In their contribution, Niklas Helwig, Juha Jokela and Clara Portela analyse the EU …
The Yearbook of European Integration published by the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in Berlin documents and assesses the European integration process from 1980 to the present. The result of 40 years of continuous work is a uniquely comprehensive account …
Daniel Klein, Christopher Ludwig and Christoph Spengel explain the Commission’s proposals for directives on the taxation of digital companies presented so far and describe the technical and political hurdles that are difficult to overcome on the way to a multilateral …
On 18 March, Kyrgyzstan confirmed the first three cases of the Covid-19 pandemic. The country has declared a state of emergency and and closed its international borders. As of 30th June, Kyrgyzstan counted 5296 confirmed cases of Covid-19, 2370 recoveries …
Georgia, similar to the other countries, has been struggling with the Covid-19 since February 2020. In an interview, Professor Kornely Kakachia discusses how the government and society have been handling the pandemic since then and particularly, how the virus has …
Nicolai von Ondarza analyzes the approach of the European Union (EU) in the Brexit negotiations and explains the respectable success mainly with the unusual unity of the EU-27 and the structuring of the talks under the leadership of Michel Barnier. …
Johannes Pollak’s contribution is dealing with the topic of energy security and explains the area of tension between market liberalisation, security concerns and climate policy in which European energy policy operates. In their article, Johannes Kohls and Funda Tekin analyse …
Tajikistan just held its first parliamentary elections since the country’s main opposition party lost its registration and was declared an extremist group in 2015. As expected, President Emomali Rahmon’s party received the most votes, maintaining its dominance in a parliament …