Think Tank Review- March 2023

Library blog Tuesday 28 March 2023

● General Secretariat of the Council   Think Tank Review- March 2023   The moment for Europe to define itself as a power; the enlargement process and the unity of the continent; food security in the context of the war in Ukraine; energy security and the prevention of shortages; how hydrogen can help the EU move to a net-zero economy; the advantages and disadvantages of the majority voting regarding the Common Foreign and Security Policy; the transatlantic unity; and how to avert major power war are some of the topics covered in the March Think Tank Review."

Think Tank Review- March 2023

• 28 March 2023
 
• gsclibrary

 

 

EU politics and institutions

Against the background of the war in Ukraine, think tanks discuss if Europe can define itself as a power and if it is ready to take its future into its own hands, to defend its common values, and to assume its responsibilities in the face of history. Papers also point out that the war in Ukraine has had the effect of pushing the issue of enlargement up the European political agenda; enlargement is a process inseparable from a broader reflection on the unity of the continent and the historical, geographical and institutional dimensions of European construction.

Fondation Robert Schuman

• Europe as a power: now or never

Centre for European Policy Studies

• Alternative futures of EU integration after the Covid-19 pandemic

Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik

• The looming deep crisis in Europe  – and what to do about it

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

• Trade Unions and right-wing populism in Europe: country study Greece

• Gewerkschaften und Rechtspopulismus in Europa: Länderstudie Griechenland

European Policy Centre

• Addressing cohesion policy’s identity crisis in a changing European Union

Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute

• L’élargissement de l’UE et la transformation du continent

EU policies

As the war in Ukraine has revived the debate around the notion of food security in Europe, papers note that the transition to agroecology requires tackling the logic of low-cost agricultural production, and that this ambition will make EU agriculture more resilient and sovereign, putting it on a path consistent with the Paris agreements. Precisely, environmental issues on agriculture are interlinked with the the European Green Deal and the green transition to climate neutrality coupled with sustained, comprehensive, and integrated efforts across all relevant policy fields and the whole of society. Competition policy and enforcement in digital markets are analysed given that digital markets are concentrated in the hands of just a few large online firms; for that reason competition authorities have called for more international cooperation in the context of the G7. As the EU has weathered a difficult winter for energy security, papers argue that now is the moment to pivot from emergency response to sustained delivery of renewables and energy efficiency; building on REPowerEU, ‘Fit for 55’ and emergency measures, the EU should shift to the 2023 -2025 timeframe by reducing energy waste, preventing a gas supply shortage, and building household and industry resilience to high and volatile prices. On energy issues, hydrogen is seen as key to helping the EU move to a net-zero economy.

Agriculture and Fisheries

Ecologic Institute / Institute for European Environmental Policy

• Environment and climate assessment of Germany's CAP strategic plan

Ecologic Institute / Institute for European Environmental Policy

• Environment and climate assessment of Poland's CAP strategic plan

Terra Nova

• Comment réussir la transition agro-écologique ?

Terra Nova

• Le bio en baisse: simple ralentissement ou véritable décrochage ?

Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space)

Institute of International and European Affairs

• Industrial policy: an EU response to the challenge of competitiveness

Institute of International and European Affairs

• The future of industrial policy and the European single market

European Policy Centre

• Resetting the EU’s business model after the watershed

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• From competition to a sustainable raw materials diplomacy: pointers for European policymakers

• Von der Rohstoffkonkurrenz zur nachhaltigen Rohstoffaußenpolitik: Politikansätze für deutsche Akteure

Bruegel

• A model for a participative approach to digital competition regulation

Institut Montaigne

• European production tax barometer 2023

Economic and Financial Affairs

Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln

• New attempt to harmonise corporation taxation in the EU

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• Europas Energiekrise und der östliche Mittelmeerraum: über Zielkonflikte zwischen Versorgungssicherheit, Klimaschutz und regionaler Stabilität

Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

• US-Investitionspaket Inflation Reduction Act erfordert schnelles strategisches Handeln der EU

Bruegel

• How Europe should answer the US inflation reduction act

Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

• Und sie bewegen sich doch: Energiepreise sinken, wenn Leitzins steigt – trotz gegenläufiger Effekte

Employment / Social Policy / Health and Consumer Affairs

Centre for European Policy Studies

• An analysis of industrial relations and gender equality at European and national level

Environmental Issues

Център за изследване на демокрацията

• Countering Green Deal disinformation narratives In Bulgaria

Foundation for European Progressive Studies

• From the Green Deal to REPower EU: what about the EU’s southern fossil gas suppliers?

Brussels School of Governance

• Towards an EU climate governance framework to deliver on the European Green Deal

E3G

• European Green Deal Diplomacy toolbox: partnerships to shape the global clean economy transition

Foundation for European Progressive Studies

• The path towards a socially just fit for 55 package: how have social elements of the Fit for 55 package evolved in the context of the climate, energy, and cost-of-living crises?

Foundation for European Progressive Studies

• Climate justice principles

Bertelsmann Stiftung

• Dekarbonisierung ohne Deindustrialisierung: mit welchem Policy-Mix gelingt die Transformation?

German Marshall Fund of the United States

• A sustainable blue economy

Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel

• Technology will save the climate: attitudes towards Norway’s climate policy in four social groups

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik

• The disruption of Arctic exceptionalism: managing environmental change

Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych

• With charisma, stick, and carrot: reviewing the effectiveness of EU climate diplomacy

Bruegel

• Climate versus trade? Reconciling international subsidy rules with industrial decarbonisation

Institut pro Evropskou Politiku EUROPEUM

• Monitoring of the EU's green policies: perceptions and narratives in the Czech and Slovak information space

E3G

• Financing the transition in Central and Eastern Europe

Terra Nova

• Leçons du nord de l’Europe: les enseignements pour la France de la taxe carbone suédoise

Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air

• The toll of fossil fuel air pollution: a case for clean transportation

Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques

• Promesses et risques de la géo-ingénierie solaire

Carnegie Europe

• Climate action, social justice, and democracy: Europe’s new trilemma

Institute for Public Policy Research

• 1.5°C – dead or alive? The risks to transformational change from reaching and breaching the Paris Agreement goal

Carnegie Europe

• A global citizens’ assembly on the climate and ecological crisis

Justice and Home Affairs

Institut pro Evropskou Politiku EUROPEUM

• The new pact on migration and asylum and the war in Ukraine: time for a paradigm shift?

Bertelsmann Stiftung

• Self-sovereign identities for people on the move: a new approach to public sector authentication?

Institut pro Evropskou Politiku EUROPEUM

• Three responses to disinformation in the European Union

European Centre for Development Policy Management

• No time like the present to fight corruption: innovative practice for a wicked development problem

Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission

• Tackling disinformation and inaccuracy: Euro-Med digital opportunities in the context of the Russian online invasion

German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Europe vs. spyware

Institut français des relations internationales

• La protection temporaire dans le monde: une réponse ordinaire à des situations d’exil exceptionnelles

Fondation pour l’innovation politique

• Danish immigration policy: consensual closing of borders

Centre for European Policy Studies

• Policing search and rescue NGOs in the Mediterranean: does justice end at sea?

Transport / Telecommunications / Energy

Център за изследване на демокрацията

• Decoupling from Russian oil: overcoming path dependencies in the Bulgarian energy sector

Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln

• H2 Geopolitics: geopolitical risks in global hydrogen trade

Bruegel

• How best to ensure international digital competition cooperation

Centre for European Policy Studies

• What’s in a name? Getting the definition of artificial intelligence right in the EU’s AI act

Luiss School of European Political Economy

• Digitalization in Europe: a potential driver of energy efficiency for the twin transition

Foundation for European Progressive Studies

• Towards a sustainable and resilient future Internet

European Institute of the Mediterranean / CETMO

• Towards enhanced connectivity and sustainability in the Mediterranean transport and logistics sector: trends in trade, maritime transport, and sustainability

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

• Geopolitik und Energiesicherheit in Europa

Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

• Zemní plyn ve východním Středomoří: příspěvek k energetické bezpečnosti Evropské unie

E3G

• From emergency response to energy security in Europe

Institut Montaigne

• Hydrogen: a driving force for global industrial decarbonization

Fondation Robert Schuman

• European energy solidarity: strengthening the EU's resilience to crises

Bruegel

• Preparing for the next winter: Europe’s gas outlook for 2023

Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

• Východní Středomoří a energetická tranzice Evropské unie: trendy a příležitosti pro Česko

GLOBSEC Policy Institute

• Adapting EU energy efficiency targets to V4+ regional context

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung/EPICO KlimaInnovation/Guidehouse

• Design options for a European hydrogen bank: report about potential design choices for the European Hydrogen Bank

Foreign and security policy / Defence

While the debate on the qualified majority voting on the Common Foreign and Security Policy has been already ongoing for many years, reports discuss the related advantages and disadvantages, taking into account recent significant changes in the European security context combined with the EU´s effort to strengthen its position among increasingly competitive global powers, as well as its ability to quickly react to crises. Studies set out to measure the interconnectivity between the EU and its neighbouring countries in trade, finance, technology and know-how, infrastructure and labour mobility, and to compare these interconnections with those of the EU’s peers and rivals, i.e. the US, China and Russia. Papers comment on the State of the Union address by President Joe Biden and ask which are the lessons to draw for transatlantic unity. They point out that the debate on European strategic autonomy has gained new momentum with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The main idea behind the concept of ESA is the EU’s ability and means to enhance its freedom from a set of external dependencies and also to enhance its freedom to conduct its policy autonomously.

• Think Tank reports on the invasion of Ukraine

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik

• Frankreichs Außenpolitik im Wandel. Soft power: die schwindende Strahlkraft französischer Kulturdiplomatie

Österreichische Institut für Internationale Politik

• NATO’s 2022 strategic concept: analysis and implications for Austria

Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute

• Comment l’Europe répond à la rivalité sino-américaine

• Europe’s response to the Sino-american rivalry

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• Western Balkan foreign and security ties with external actors: an arena of geostrategic rivalry for the EU or a local power struggle?

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• Geopolitics in the Baltic Sea region: the “Zeitenwende” in the context of critical maritime infrastructure, escalation threats and the German willingness to lead

Institut pro Evropskou Politiku EUROPEUM / Slovenská spoločnosť pre zahraničnú politiku

• Qualified majority voting in CFSP: impending necessity or resurfacing utopia?

European Policy Centre

• Europe in the world in 2023: learning the language of power?

Bertelsmann Stiftung

• Keeping friends closer: why the EU should address new geoeconomic realities and get its neighbours back in the fold

Swedish Institute of International Affairs

• Prospects and limitations for a Quad Plus Europe

Institut français des relations internationales

• Inflation reduction act versus pacte vert: les divergences transatlantiques sur la transition énergétique

Chatham House

• State of the union has lessons for transatlantic unity

Istituto Affari Internazionali

• Stalled by division: EU internal contestation over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Istituto Affari Internazionali

• The EU trapped in the Venezuelan labyrinth: challenges to finding a way out

Istituto Affari Internazionali

• The vicious circle of fragmentation: the EU and the limits of its approach to Libya

Mercator Institute for China Studies

• Bridging the gap: priorities for transatlantic China policy

Real Instituto Elcano

• La guerra tecnológica EEUU-China y sus efectos sobre Europa

German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Watching China in Europe: February 2023

German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Turkey’s disengagement from the European Union

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Addressing fragility in Libya means protecting migrant rights

European Centre for Development Policy Management

• Building a digital single market: from the EU to Africa

German Institute of Development and Sustainability

• The future of EU blended finance and guarantees: an assessment of cooperation strategies with least developed countries in Africa

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• Strategic competition and cooperation in Africa: perceptions, implications and the way forward

Institut pro Evropskou Politiku EUROPEUM / GLOBSEC Policy Institute

• In search for a more effective EU foreign and security policy: can Central Europe seize its momentum?

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations/Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace

• Plugging green power into the EU-ASEAN partnership

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• Germany’s fragile leadership role in European air defence: the need for adjustments at all levels of the European sky shield initiative

Foundation for European Progressive Studies

• Progressive pathways to European strategic autonomy

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies

• Resilient and robust climate-proofing the military for increased military effectiveness

Hague Centre for Strategic Studies

• Future European contributions to arms control: compete to negotiate

Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln

• A new era for the defense industry? Security policy and defense capability after the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Foundation for European Progressive Studies

• Terra incognita: exploring the long-term implications of the war in Ukraine

European Centre for Development Policy Management

• Rethinking EU support to the rule of law: taking a stand for sustainable development

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

• Negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement between India and the EU: ambitions, expectations, obstacles, and incentives

Institute for European Environmental Policy

• Reflections on the new approach to the trade and sustainable development chapters for greener trade

Institut français des relations internationales

• Rebooting the entente an agenda for renewed UK-France defense cooperation

Institute of International and European Affairs

• Brexit brief: issue 147

Institute of International and European Affairs

• Brexit brief: issue 148

Centre d’études et de recherches internationales

• Regards sur l'Eurasie: l'année politique 2022

Carnegie Europe

• Reassessing southern EU democracy support: the security dilemma

Fondation Robert Schuman

• Can the EU still wrest the Balkans from their blighted history?

Centre for European Policy Studies

• The south China sea and Indo-Pacific in an era of “multipolar” competition: a more targeted EU response?

Global affairs

On a global level, averting major power war and the logic of mutual assured survival are debated; a major power war has the potential to become a catastrophe of world-historical proportions depending on the duration of such a clash and the scale of death and destruction. Reports shed light on the poly-crisis low-income countries of the Global South are facing, ranging from climate change impacts, rising energy costs, food insecurity to geopolitical insecurity. They advocate a major rethink of how to approach North–South relationships. This includes reforming how donors interact with recipients and how to align climate, trade and development. A New Fair Deal for climate, trade and development could create policy “deals” across multiple policy fields and geographies.

Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel

• Leere Regale made in China: wenn China beim Handel mauert

Institute for European Environmental Policy

• Motives for and against divergence by the UK from EU environmental laws

Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik

• Sustainable development in the Western Balkans: is youth on board?

The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

• Navigating breakup: security realities of freezing politics and thawing landscapes in the Arctic

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Getting global development back on track: focus and start at home

Council on Foreign Relations

• Averting major power war: the logic of mutual assured survival

Carnegie Europe

• After Russia’s war against Ukraine: what kind of world order?

Bruegel

• A limping transition: the former Soviet Union thirty years on

Institut für Europäische Politik

• Voices of Belarusian diaspora: challenges and opportunities of Belarusian civic activists abroad

International Crisis Group

• Managing Palestine’s looming leadership transition

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

• Close but complicated: Iran-Russia relations in the Middle East amid the war in Ukraine

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

• Afghanistan monitor

International Crisis Group

• Taliban restrictions on women’s rights deepen Afghanistan’s crisis

International Crisis Group

• An enduring challenge: ISIS-linked foreigners in Türkiye

RAND Corporation

• Little in common prospects for US-China and US-Russia security cooperation

RAND Corporation

• Gaining victory in systems warfare: China's perspective on the US-China military balance

LSE IDEAS

• China's global strategy as science fiction

Mercator Institute for China Studies

• From opportunity to risk: the changing economic security policies vis-à-vis China

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• China holds the key to global energy demand

RAND Corporation

• Assessing the prospects for great power cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Centrum Stosunków Międzynarodowych

• Japan’s new security strategy

Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet (Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade)

• Japan's posture in a potential Taiwan conflict

Institut français des relations internationales

• États-Unis: une renaissance ferroviaire ?

E3G / KONRAD ADENAUER STIFTUNG

• A new fair deal for climate, trade and development: opportunities for the Global South

International Crisis Group

• Eight priorities for the African Union in 2023

Observer Research Foundation

• The I2U2: where geography and economics meet

Institut français des relations internationales

• The technology policies of digital middle powers

Observer Research Foundation

• Climate performance index: a study of the performance of G20 countries in mitigation

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