Discounting is the usual method used to compare the future value to a present value. This is a key parameter for evaluating the socio-economic impact of public investment projects decades in the future. More...

In the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the German authorities launched the country's energy transition, or Energiewende. With near unanimous support of Germany’s citizens, it was seen as a society-wide project. More...

To strengthen the euro area’s resilience to crises and guarantee its sustainability, member states will need to agree on a model for the long term. More...

France Stratégie looks at the changing composition of employment statuses over the past three decades and the spread of alternatives to the country’s traditional permanent contract (CDI). More...

The Research, Innovation and Science Policy Experts (RISE) high level group provides European Commissioner Carlos Moedas with strategic support. RISE published Europe's Future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World earlier this year and presented it to Moedas. It focuses harnessing EU research and innovation to create sustainable and socially inclusive growth for the Union in today’s globalized world. More...

Outside of Japan, nowhere did the Fukushima meltdown have more of an impact than in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government had published a policy document outlining its energy transition a mere six months prior in September 2010. Though the Energiewende, as it is known, has its roots in the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s and in particular a groundbreaking study published in 1980, it was developed in its current form as a policy at the beginning of the 2000s. Nuclear power was to be a means for the country to transition to clean technology. But less than three months after the Japanese disaster, Merkel announced all of Germany’s nuclear power plants were to be shut down by 2022. More...

Europe’s contribution to the future prosperity and equity of our societies can be significant if it successfully encourages long-term investment in human capital. Helping people in a direct and visible way is the only way the European Union can win over the hearts of its citizens. More...

The free-market orthodoxy advocated across Europe after the 2008-09 financial crisis of reducing the size of government when people weren’t spending and companies weren’t investing was questionable at best. More...

Not only are the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 set to be the three hottest years ever recorded, but they have been punctuated by extreme weather events

“The sea is swallowing villages, eating away at shorelines, withering crops. Relocation of people... Cries over lost loved ones, dying of hunger and thirst.  It's catastrophic. It’s sad…but it's real. My home, my school, my source of food, water, and money was totally destroyed. My life was in chaos.” [1]

At the beginning of November 2017, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) highlighted the danger: the pledges to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions made so far by states worldwide will result in a temperature rise of at least 3°C by 2100. More...

Though the 2015 European refugee crisis had the merit of sparking widespread debate across Europe on the role of migrants in society, media coverage created the false impression asylum seekers were the central issue when it comes to immigration. More...