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EPRS invites leading experts and commentators to share their thinking and insights on important topics of relevance to debate in the European institutions. In this paper, Bruce Stokes, visiting senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and associate fellow at Chatham House, offers an overview of the development of U.S.-EU relations since 1957, with a strong emphasis on ties in the last 30-40 years, largely based on the author's interviews with former officials who lived that ...

Le 9 février 2021, la Commission européenne et le haut représentant ont adopté une communication conjointe au Parlement européen et au Conseil sur un partenariat renouvelé avec le voisinage méridional. Le 19 avril 2021, le Conseil a approuvé le partenariat renouvelé, qui vise à «relever les défis communs» et à «libérer le potentiel économique de la région dans l’intérêt de sa population». Lors de sa période de session de septembre 2022, le Parlement est appelé à se prononcer par un vote sur un rapport ...

Le présent document a été élaboré par l’Ex-Post Unité Évaluation de la direction de l’évaluation de l’impact et de la valeur ajoutée européenne, qui dépend des services de recherche parlementaire (EPRS) du secrétariat du Parlement européen, dans le cadre d’une évaluation régionale, parallèlement aux perspectives de paix et de sécurité des services EPRS pour 2022. Il a été rédigé dans le cadre d’une contribution au Forum mondial Normandie pour la paix qui se tiendra en septembre 2022. Ce document ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the accession treaties to the former European Communities by Ireland and Denmark. The path to membership was not smooth for either country, with their first two applications made in 1961 and 1967, together with the United Kingdom, effectively blocked by French opposition. With a change of government in France, the six members of the European Communities reaffirmed their agreement to the enlargement of the Communities, and negotiations on membership ...

EPRS invites leading experts and commentators to share their thinking and insights on important features of the European Union as a political and economic system. In this paper, Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE), reflects on the distinctive characteristics of the EU as the world's leading exemplar of regional economic integration, and its unique experience since the 1950s in generating collective public goods for its Member States as a foundation for ...

15 countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on 15 November 2020. Upon ratification, it will become the largest preferential trade agreement by economic output in the world, with the potential to increase trade and integration among the economies of East Asia. This briefing presents the structure and the content of the agreement, its relationship to existing cooperation in the region, and discusses important economic and political implications. Several notable takeaways ...

Following a two-stage consultation of social partners launched in February 2020, on 28 October, the European Commission published its proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union.

La Commission européenne a annoncé son intention d’adopter, d’ici la fin de l’année, un nouveau cadre politique de l’Union européenne pour lutter contre l’exclusion socio-économique et la discrimination à l’égard des personnes d’origine rom. Les recommandations détaillées du Parlement européen sont en cours d’élaboration. Dans l’intervalle, un débat et des déclarations du Conseil et de la Commission sont prévus pour la session plénière de juillet.

Launched almost three decades ago, economic and monetary union (EMU) represents a very important step in the process of European economic integration. However, the recent sovereign debt crisis highlighted its incomplete design and some inherent instabilities. A series of measures were therefore taken to deepen EMU and thereby to increase its resilience. They can be grouped in three main categories: monetary measures, measures intended to complete the single market, and measures aimed at strengthening ...

This EPRS paper focuses on the economic benefits of common action at European level and the risk involved if the current coronavirus crisis and its aftermath were to stall or reverse the process of European integration. It attempts to quantify the losses from: (i) any gradual dismantling of the EU project - where cautious estimates suggest that erosion of the EU single market alone would cost the European economy between 3.0 and 8.7 per cent of its collective GDP (this would be existing 'European ...