• NEW POLICY BRIEF: A Roadmap for a Fair Data Economy

    The General Data Protection Regulation has been in effect for almost one year. The far-sighted regulation – devised well before scandals involving Cambridge Analytica, Exactis or Marriott Starwood Hotels – has made Europe a global leader in the data-regulation field. But what about...

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  • Millennial Moment: New Ideas for a New Economy

    Weeks before crucial European elections, an eclectic gathering of pollsters, think tankers, policymakers and millennials convened in Brussels for the High-Level Summit on New Ideas for a New Economy: How Millennials Think About Life, Work, Politics and Social Security, a deep dive on the...

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  • The Future of Work: the ‘Life Account’ Proposal

    Elina Lepomäki, member of the Parliament of Finland, talks about her flagship “Life Account” proposal, a portable social-security model for Europe that combats the radically changing social situation, in a recent interview. Ms Lepomäki was speaking at the High-Level Summit on New...

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  • Digital Europe, Next Steps: An Eight-Point Action Plan

    In a new discussion paper, President and Co-founder Paul Hofheinz and Deputy Director and Senior Fellow Luukas K. Ilves take a look at the coming challenge – and strategic advantage – for a renewed European digital agenda under the incoming European Commission. The discussion paper...

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  • ‘Co-Everything:’ Bringing State Transformation to...

    Senior civil servants, post-graduate students and public-sector experts convened in Brussels for the latest meeting of the European Centre for Government Transformation. The discussions were fed by three outstanding case studies from College of Europe student teams, each assigned an...

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  • Why Quality of Public Finance Matters for Europe

    In a new policy brief released as finance ministers gather in Brussels for the 21-22 January eurogroup/ecfin meetings, Chief Economist Alessandro Leipold calls for a dramatic increase in the role and political attention awarded to a vital but crucial policy lever: the quality of public...

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  • High-Level Summit Discusses Quality of Public Finance...

    Top economists, leading regulators, euro aficionados and European media leaders convened for The 2018 Euro Summit: Why Quality Public Finance is Key to Prosperity – and How Governments Can Deliver It, a high-level conference hosted by the Lisbon Council in Brussels. To kick things off,...

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