Publications Archive

This archive contains all documents published by cep over the last few years

  • cepAdhoc: Incisive comment on current EU policy issues
  • cepPolicyBrief: Concise reviews of EU proposals (Regulations, Directives, Green Papers, White Papers, Communications) – including an executive summary
  • cepInput: Impulse to current challenges of EU policies
  • cepStudy: Comprehensive examination of EU policy proposals affecting the economy

 

2024

cepInput: Sovereignty Built on Strength and Significance

The EU is at risk of falling behind in core innovative sectors such as automotive, pharmaceuticals and aerospace. Not enough progress is being made in future technologies such as AI. The Centre for European Policy Network (cep) presents its ideas for an economic overhaul of Europe.

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2024

cepInput: Future EU Climate Policy: Challenges and Chances

In order for climate protection to succeed, the Centre for European Policy (cep) believes that the EU must reduce greenhouse gases both more effectively and more cost-effectively in the future. The threat of production and emissions being shifted to third countries as a result of carbon leakage is damaging both the European economy and the global climate. The cep identifies effective instruments that should be at the top of the EU's 2024-2029 agenda.

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2024

cepInput: Advanced Materials for the Green and Digital Age

Europe risks becoming only a spectator in the global race for green and digital technologies. To maintain its technological sovereignty, the EU must build on its own strengths. These (still) lie primarily in materials innovation. The Centre for European Policy (cep) calls for a new strategic focus of technology policies on the development of advanced materials.

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2024

cepNews: Democratic Governance of AI Systems and Datasets

Progress in AI’s capabilities has highlighted a significant concern: the uneven allocation of AI’s benefits among and within societies and economies, worsening both domestic and global inequalities. In addition to limiting market competition and innovation, this concentration of power also translates into social challenges: global inequalities, risks of bias and disinformation, replacement of jobs, and lack of democratic control.

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2024

cepNews: Europe.Table Live Briefing: Europa vor der Schicksalswahl - der Kandidaten-Check

In der gemeinsamen Veranstaltungsreihe von Europäischer Bewegung Deutschland e.V. (EBD) und Table.Briefings im Vorfeld der Europawahl 2024 wollen wir mit den Spitzenvertretern und Spitzenvertreterinnen vieler Parteien gemeinsam mit Expertinnen und Experten in den Dialog treten. 

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2024

cepInput: The Quest for a Bold Capital Markets Union

In Europe, there is growing pressure from politics and business to create a smoothly functioning Capital Markets Union (CMU). While retail investors in the US invested almost half of their financial assets in securities two years ago, the proportion in the EU was only 17 per cent. The Centre for European Policy (cep) believes that the EU should increase its efforts to increase this proportion.

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2024

cepNews: The cep becomes a member of T20 Brasil 2024 and T7 Italia 2024

2024

cepInput: Macron’s Sorbonne Speech II: A French Negotiating Tool Dedicated to Influence Europe?

On April 25, President Emmanuel Macron delivered his second Sorbonne speech, following on from the one he gave on September 26, 2017. Longer, richer in concrete proposals, and deploying maximum ambition for the European Union, commentators hesitate to qualify his target: is it his party's potential voters for the upcoming European elections, the European Parliament, or is it above all his European partners? We would argue here that, while the speech obviously has electoral repercussions, particularly given its high content of proposals, it is above all a speech designed to challenge the Member States, as was already the case in 2017.

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2024

cepNews: cep Series on the European Elections

The EU is in rough waters between the USA, China and the global South. Added to this is the war in Ukraine. In an eight-part series, cep looks at the challenges for the period after the European elections.

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2024

cepInput: Anticipating AI Instead of Preventing It

Inadequate resources, dominant tech companies and a lack of legitimacy: rapid progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires a drastic rethink in Brussels. This is the conclusion of a study by the Centre for European Policy (cep) in the run-up to the European elections. An institutional reorganisation of the Commission is needed.

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