Think Tank Review - June 2022

 

Library blog Friday 1 July 2022

● General Secretariat of the Council   Think Tank Review - June 2022   The concept of a ‘European Political Community’; energy sufficiency and the EU’s renewables expansion challenge towards 2030; if the EU's response to Russia's war in Ukraine is a transformational moment; EU’s open strategic autonomy and the trappings of geo-economics, European industrial policy as a crucial element of strategic autonomy; and reducing European fertiliser and feed dependency through the Common Agriculture Policy are some of the issues discussed in the 100th edition of the Think Tank Review.

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LNG terminals in the EU. Source: European Commission 2022

 

The concept of a ‘European Political Community’; energy sufficiency and the EU’s renewables expansion challenge towards 2030; if the EU's response to Russia's war in Ukraine is a transformational moment; EU’s open strategic autonomy and the trappings of geo-economics, European industrial policy as a crucial element of strategic autonomy; and reducing European fertiliser and feed dependency through the Common Agriculture Policy are some of the issues discussed in the 100th edition of the Think Tank Review.

• Think Tank Review - June 2022

EU politics and institutions

• What role for the EU in the world? Towards EU leadership based on values
• Democracies in danger: how can we break the vicious circle of populism?
• Under construction: citizen participation in the European Union

Agriculture and fisheries

• Reducing European fertiliser and feed dependency through the CAP
• GRAPE 3: transformer le système agroalimentaire européen, plus que jamais une nécessité

Competitiveness

• Preventing the critical minerals crisis
• European industrial policy: a crucial element of strategic autonomy
• Les projets importants d’intérêt européen commun (PIIEC)

Economic and financial affairs

• EU response to economic coercion by third countries
• Improving the quality of public spending in Europe
• Price and liquidity discovery in European sovereign bonds and futures
• The proof of the pudding: imposing financial measures for rule of law breaches
• A qualified treatment for green and social investments within a revised EU fiscal framework

Employment / social policies / health and consumer affairs

• Beating burnout: identifying bad jobs and improving job quality
• The rights of LGBTI people in the European Union
• The need for a progressive discussion on the future of European cancer prevention policy

Environmental issues

• Becoming global climate governors: how cities are moving from climate ambition to coordinated action and delivery
• EU tools to respond to natural disasters
• The EU's zero pollution ambition: moving towards a non-toxic environment

Justice and home affairs

• Right-wing extremism in the EU
• Protection against racism, xenophobia and racial discrimination, and the EU anti-racism action plan
• Why digital privacy is so complicated
• A decade of hosting Syrian refugees in Jordan – Lessons learnt for Poland 

Transport / Telecommunications / Energy

• AI and digital tools in workplace management and evaluation
• Geopolitics of the energy transition: energy security, new dependencies and critical raw materials. Old wine in new bottles for the EU?
• Europe will make do without Russian oil
• Tackling the energy and climate security conundrum in Southeast Europe
• La geopolítica de la energía renovable y de las materias primas críticas. El caso de la Unión Europea: liderazgo global y nuevas dependencias

Foreign affairs

• A transformational moment? The EU's response to Russia's war in Ukraine
• External policy tools to address modern slavery and forced labour
• The European Council and defence cooperation
• NATO, the EU and the return of collective defence
• Rethinking nuclear deterrence: a European perspective
• Ucrania a remolque del Consejo de Comercio y Tecnología