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Circular Migration in Spain Strengths and Weaknesses of the Spanish Migration Model
Experts have over the years produced countless policy briefs, reports and documents in efforts to influence policy-makers’ decisions about EU economic policy and governance. In a special category are the expert reports officially commissioned by EU institutional actors.
How Much Do Experts’ Ideas Matter for the European Union’s Political Agenda?
It has been argued that in 2024, for the first time since the beginning of the 21st century, the number of democracies in the world exceeded the number of autocracies. According to most indicators, Europe continues to be one of the most democratic regions on the planet. The latest annual Freedom House calls it the “most free region in the world.”
Democracy in Europe: protection or reinvention How now will the continent live?
After the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) was made public and raised the issue of ‘civilizational erasure’ of Europe due to uncontrolled migration, the migration topic is in the spotlight again. Bernard Chappedelaine, ex adviser to the French Foreign Ministry, discusses the dangers of uncontrolled migration in his analytical brief.
The EU and the Migration Issue Will Europe Be Erased by Uncontrolled Migration?
The population of the European Union is getting older at an accelerating rate. The number of elderly people is growing in all the countries of the continent, with their birth rates falling just as rapidly. A low-probable or, more precisely, almost non-existent prospect of the latter’s recovery actually leaves the EU countries with just one way to mitigate the economic consequences of ageing: to get increasingly addicted to the migration drug. The costs of flirting with migrants are now evident to everyone in Europe.
Old World Growing Even Older What Migration and Pension Expenses Have to Do with This
The policy brief by the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael is an internal strategic document aimed at moving the system of control over adherence to ideological guidelines and political decisions from the realm of political negotiations to the field of technocratic regulation. The authors of the study focus on systemic weaknesses of the key mechanism - the annual EU Rule of Law report.
WHAT IT TAKES TO PROTECT FUNDAMENTAL VALUES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
