Think Tank Review – October issue preview

The library team has been selecting publications for the next TTR, to be posted around 20 October. Here is a preview – by no means exhaustive – of papers published by think tanks in September. Some of them are already indexed in our repository.

As expected, the new European Commission being put in place attracted lots of attention from Brussels-based think tanks in September:

• Bruegel
  Memos to the new EU leadership
  by André Sapir and Guntram B. Wolff (eds.)
  Link to the collection of document in English
• European Policy Centre
  Policy recommendations for the new European Commission: priorities for stabilising EMU
  by Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Jan David Schneider and Fabian Zuleeg
  Link to the article in English
• Centre for European Policy Studies
  Priorities for the next legislature: EU external action
  by Steven Blockmans
  Link to the article in English
  The new Juncker Commission: the Digital Agenda
  by Colin Blackman and Andrea Renda
  Link to the article in English
  The Juncker Commission: a new start for EU Justice and Home Affairs policy?
  by Sergio Carrera and Elspeth Guild
  Link to the article in English

Low interest rates and the risk of deflation rose concern:

• Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln
  The low interest rate environment: causes, effects and a way out
  by Jürgen Matthes
  Link to the article in English
• Bruegel
  So far apart and yet so close: should the ECB care about inflation differentials?
  by Zsolt Darvas and Guntram B. Wolf
  Link to the article in English
• Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel
  Is there a threat of self-reinforcing deflation in the euro area? A view through the lens of the Phillips curve
  by Volker Wieland and Maik Wolters
  Link to the article in English

The social aspects of the economic situation in the EU were analyzed in a comprehensive report:

• Bertelsmann Stiftung
  Social justice in the EU : a cross-national comparison
  by Daniel Schraad-Tischler and Christian Kroll
  Link to the article in English and to the main findings in German

Scotland’s No vote in its independence referendum on 18 September triggered some analyses…

• Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
  by Francis Ghilès
  The No vote offers a reprieve – No more
  Link to the article in English
  A Yes vote will truncate the United Kingdom
  Link to the article in English
• Institute for Government
  Governing after the referendum: future constitutional scenarios for the UK
  by Akash Paun, Robyn Munro, Joe Randall and Lucy Shaddock
  Link to the article in English

… as did the Catalan government’s ‘white paper on the national transition‘ and call for a referendum on 9 November, in defiance of the central authorities in Madrid:

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik
  Catalonia’s separatist swell
  by Cale Salih
  Link to the article in English

Finally, the conflict in Ukraine, Russia’ role and their implications for the EU from the point of view of energy supply were again the focus of various think tanks:

• Ulkopoliittinen Instituutti
  Russian thinking in Ukraine crisis: from drawing an line of defence to seeing a threat to national security
  by Katri Pynnöniemi
  Link to the article in English
• Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation
  The South Stream in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis: a test case for the third energy package
  by Marco Giuli
  Link to the article in English

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