European Union
Briefing paper
Preparing Brexit: no deal
This paper from the Institute for Government looks at what UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, will need to do in the next 94 days to prepare for a 'no deal' Brexit, and what he will have to do after 31 October if the United Kingdom has left the EU without a deal. It argues it...
Discussion paper
The zero carbon and circular economy challenge in the built environment: policy options for the European Union and its member states
This paper on the zero carbon and circular challenge in the built environment puts forward several policy recommendations. In order to achieve the net-zero carbon goal by 2050, adapting the built environment is paramount: the EU estimates that the climate change-related damage to infrastructure could grow tenfold under a business-as-usual scenario. The paper advocates the...
Report
European drug report 2019: trends and developments
This report presents a top-level overview of the drug phenomenon in Europe, covering drug supply and use and public health problems, as well as drug policy and responses.
Working paper
How computerisation is transforming jobs: evidence from the European Working Conditions Survey
This paper investigates changes in the task content, methods and tools of European jobs from 1995 to 2015. Drawing on the taxonomy of tasks proposed by Bisello and Fernández-Macías (2016), this work tries to better understand whether changes in the average intensity of tasks performance are the result of changes in the shares of employment...
Report
The end of Chimerica: the passing of global economic consensus and the rise of US-China strategic technological competition
Chinese economic and trade malpractices over a long period of time are having profound distorting effects on the global economic system and US dissatisfaction is deepening and irreversible. This publication argues Australia has been slow or else reluctant to accept that the previous global economic consensus of free and open trade (especially with China) being...