Following the decisive victory for the right in its parliamentary elections, Italy will shortly have a new government. The Prime Minister will almost certainly be Giorgia Meloni of Fratelli d’Italia. In a new analysis Giovanni Capoccia of the University of Oxford explains what all this might mean for Italy and for the EU. (2022:17epa)
SIEPS participated in the arrangements during EU Days Lund 2022 on 20–21 September. In a seminar on 20 September Commissioner Ylva Johansson and other panelists discussed some of the most important challenges facing the common European asylum system in the light of the Ukrainian refugee situtation.
Recent publications in English
Faced with millions of refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU moved quickly and with remarkable unity. In this essay SIEPS researchers Bernd Parusel and Valeriia Varfolomieieva suggest some lessons that the handling of the situation might hold for the future of EU asylum policy. (2022:16epa)
This autumn the European Commission will present a draft of a new EU Global Health Strategy. This is an opportunity for the EU to deepen, broaden and better operationalize its approach in line with Agenda 2030, argues Louise Bengtsson, Senior Researcher at SIEPS. (2022:15epa)
The EU’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is far from perfect. But it is a unique achievement, and it has weathered all the economic and political storms of its existence so far. It will in all likelihood continue to do so, writes Charles Wyplosz, economist and Emeritus Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, as he assesses proposals to safeguard the future of the euro, and makes some of his own. (2022:13epa)
In 1997 the Court of Justice ruled that the Swedish retail monopoly on alcohol was consistent with EU law. Would it do so again today? In this report Dr Graham Butler (University of Aarhus) notes how Swedish policy and EU law have changed since that decision. He finds that, today, the monopoly’s compatibility with EU law is questionable. (2022:3)
Swedish voters are still reluctant to join the euro. For this situation to change, the EU’s economic and monetary union (EMU) must be able to ensure economic prosperity, writes Karolina Ekholm, Professor in International Economics at Stockholm University. (2022:14epa)
Long criticized as deficient, the EU’s democratic system now finds itself threatened – as do national systems – by populism, technocracy, and rival forms of government. The essays in this collection suggest how EU representative democracy could change in order to survive and perform effectively. Contributions by Ben Crum, Valentin Kreilinger, Christopher Lord, Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, and Göran von Sydow. (2022:2op)
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During 2020 and 2021, SIEPS has published a series of studies and organized seminars on the effects of the Swedish EU membership. Executive summaries in English in all publications.
