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Ten Years of Lisbon: Success or Failure?
Upcoming seminar 5th of December: Ten years have passed since the Lisbon Treaty came into force. Has the Treaty delivered? Has it been applied as originally intended? Has it been efficient to meet the policy needs?
Juncker’s Political Commission: Did it Work?
The outgoing European Commission has been defined by the idea of a more “political” institution. While the ambition proved difficult to implement, a return to the role as a neutral arbiter is no longer an alternative.
Does the EU need an industrial policy?
On 17 September, a seminar that aimed to stimulate Swedish participation in an important European debate, was held. It marked the initiation of a research project on EU industrial policy to be conducted by SIEPS. Watch the seminar (in English) and read a summary (in Swedish).
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New report
Sweden and Denmark – both non-euro countries – have commissioned public inquiries concerning a potential participation in the EU’s banking union. One of the contributions to the Swedish inquiry is presented in this report, where the arguments for and against a Swedish participation are examined.
While the author does not take a clear stand for or against Swedish participation, he nevertheless offers criteria for the decision process:
- Additional benefits compared with the Nordic-Baltic cooperation in bank supervision.
- Whether Denmark joins the banking union.
- How the supervision of significant Swedish institutions would be dealt with compared to the current structure.
- How banks in Sweden would react to the structural change in supervision and resolution.
Thorsten Beck is Professor of Banking and Finance at Cass Business School in London.
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Better In or Better Out: Weighing Sweden’s Options vis-à-vis the Banking Union
Member States outside of the eurozone may opt to join the EU’s banking union or to continue staying out. In this report, Professor Thorsten Beck examines the pros and cons of a potential Swedish participation. (2019:2)
Spitzenkandidaten – make or break?
The new procedure for selecting the President of the European Commission is subject to institutional and political struggles. Regardless the fate of the system after the European elections in 2019, SIEPS’ director Göran von Sydow argues, a genuine European level contestation over executive office is not likely to emerge soon.
SIEPS latest seminars available on video
Does the EU need an industrial policy?
On 17 September, a seminar that aimed to stimulate Swedish participation in an important European debate, was held. It marked the initiation of a research project on EU industrial policy to be conducted by SIEPS. Watch the seminar (in English) and read a summary (in Swedish).
An evaluation of the 2014–2019 European Commission
At a SIEPS seminar held on 14 May 2019, professor Mark Dawson presented a paper analysing how we can evaluate the Juncker Commission and whether a political Commission has worked in the sense of meeting its objectives.
The 2019 European Parliament elections: Potential outcome and consequences
At a SIEPS seminar held on 26 paril 2019, Professor Simon Hix, London School of Economics, presented a forecast of the election results and their impact on the European Parliament, written together with Doru Frantescu, CEO of VoteWatch Europe.
Turnout in the European elections 2014 – implications for 2019
At a SIEPS seminar on March 28 2019, the voter turnout of the elections in 2014 was discussed and used as a basis to make some predictions about the turnout of the elections in May. Hermann Schmitt and Sebastian Adrian Popa, leading researchers at the University of Mannheim, presented their findings.