The study overviews the pertinent key issues related to understanding the European Union (EU) Crisis Management debate in the context of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), examines relevant military equipment and capabilities, and provides guidance on where capability shortfalls...

This report presents the results of seven hearings on enhanced cooperation between European Union member states in the light of the changes made by the Treaty of Amsterdam. In this Treaty, the member states added a number of important new clauses on enhanced cooperation. The most momentous...

The aim of this paper is to show how and to what extent short-run differentiation through closer cooperation within the European Union can actually be made compatible with the objective of long-run unity. This question is addressed in a framework for analysis based on public goods theory and...

This publication on territorial cohesion sets out the various contributions from a number of ECO section opinions relating to territorial cohesion.

For the past four years, the EU has issued country-specific recommendations for economic reform to its Member States under the European Semester. A synthetic indicator of EU-wide implementation of these recommendations shows a score of just over 40%. While this is higher than what some critics...

Die Corona-Pandemie stellt die Europäische Union (EU) vor vielfältige Herausforderungen und erzeugt neue Informationsbedarfe. Qualitativ hochwertige Statistiken sind gerade in Krisenzeiten eine wichtige Grundlage für faktenbasierte Entscheidungen. Um den neuen Anforderungen gerecht zu werden,...

Die Corona-Pandemie stellt die Europäische Union (EU) vor vielfältige Herausforderungen und erzeugt neue Informationsbedarfe. Qualitativ hochwertige Statistiken sind gerade in Krisenzeiten eine wichtige Grundlage für faktenbasierte Entscheidungen. Um den neuen Anforderungen gerecht zu werden,...

The purpose of the study was to: Analyse the current legal framework in all Member States including the definitions of specific offences relating to firearms trafficking, the sanctions, the liability of legal and natural persons and the notions of intent, negligence and aggravating or mitigating...