This is the second edition of an annual EPRS publication designed to identify key issues and policy areas that are likely to feature prominently on the political agenda of the European Union over the coming year. Topics presented include: the implications for the EU of the terrorism threat, the...

Based on a large range of newly accessible archival sources, this study explores the European Parliament's policies on the institutional reform of the European Communities between 1979 and 1989. It demonstrates how the Parliament fulfilled key functions in the process of constitutionalization of...

As assistive technologies (ΑΤs) continue to be introduced in many areas of public and private life the need has arisen to assess the aptness of the EU legal framework to cope with the ethical and regulatory challenges they present. The key question is to what extent ATs may affect or reshape...

The post-fact era - in which emotions trump evidence, while trust in institutions, expertise and mainstream media is declining - is putting our information ecosystem under strain. At a time when information is increasingly being manipulated for ideological and economic purposes, public access to...

As the European Commission, under its President, Jean-Claude Juncker, starts the last full calendar year of its five-year mandate, this publication seeks to provide an up-to-date overview of the state of play of delivery by the Commission on each of the ten priorities he asserted on taking...

As the European Commission approaches the last full year of its five-year mandate, this publication provides an up-to-date overview of the state of play in the delivery of the various legislative and other political initiatives flowing from the ten priorities defined by the Commission's...

The EU Youth Strategy is a cooperation framework established through a Council Resolution of 27 November 2009, based on previously existing mechanisms for coordinating Member States' policies on young people. It covers the period from 2010 to 2018, during which its tools and operation also...

This study reports from a workshop on 'New Technologies and Regional Policy: Towards the Next cohesion policy Framework'. The European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Panel organised the workshop in Brussels on 16 October 2017. The objective was to provide input to...

In June 2017, the European Commission proposed a framework for a pan-European pension product (PEPP) designed to give EU citizens a new option for good value and safe voluntary supplementary pension saving. This could support pension adequacy and at the same time provide another source of...