Public health in Korea and Europe: contemporary challenges and possibilities for cooperation
Mario Esteban & Ramón Pacheco-Pardo (Eds). Working Paper 02/2021 (printed version) - 29/7/2021.
#H2Med: hydrogen’s drivers and barriers in the Mediterranean
Gonzalo Escribano. Elcano Policy Paper 2/2021 (English version) - 11/6/2021.
The Polish Recovery Plan: a careful step toward energy transition
Bartosz Bieliszczuk. ARI 87/2021 - 25/10/2021.
The Polish National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) amounts to €35.97 billion, of which more than €21.8 billion (60% of the funding) is allocated to ‘Green energy and reducing energy consumption’ (€14.31 billion) and ‘Green, smart mobility’ (€7.51 billion). The plan is more conservative on climate action than these figures suggest but will advance the Polish energy transition and impact Polish energy policies.
The governance structures of Spain and Italy: are their PNRRs overambitious?
Alessandra Bonissoni. ARI 85/2021 - 19/10/2021.
How do the governance structures of the Plans for National Recovery and Resilience (PNRRs) of Spain and Italy compare?
What’s in the German ballot box for European integration? Continuity and change
Funda Tekin & Ilke Toygür. ARI 83/2021 - 13/10/2021.
The analyses in this paper show that the next German government will also be a pro-European one. There are, however, various necessary changes when it comes to European integration, where the new German government could play a constructive role.
The 19th of July: divided or united in cyberspace? From the EU and NATO to Five Eyes and Japan
Stefan Soesanto. WP 11/2021 - 04/10/2021.
Based on the public information available as of the time of writing, this Working Paper aims to disentangle and explain what occurred on 19 July. To the author’s knowledge this is the first ever case study to take a deep look into a coordinate attribution campaign.
The Moroccan elections of 2021: a new political architecture for a new development model
Bernabé López García & Said Kirhlani. ARI 81/2021 (English version) - 01/10/2021.
The National Rally of Independents (RNI) party won a threefold victory in the parliamentary, municipal and regional elections held in Morocco on 8 September 2021
German elections: more continuity than change
Miguel Otero Iglesias. Expert Comment 29/2021 - 29/9/2021.
The key question before last Sunday’s German elections, the first without Angela Merkel in 16 years, was to know whether they will lead to continuity or change.
Is the French recovery and resilience plan climate-compatible? A preliminary analysis
Nicolas Berghmans. ARI 75/2021 - 10/9/2021.
France has climate change as a central pillar of its recovery and resilience plan, with significant additional funds devoted to key sectors where emission reductions have been lagging. However, additional sectoral policy changes will be necessary to put the country on track to achieve its 2030 and 2050 climate objectives.
G20 test of trust: coming together to narrow the pandemic divide
Beatriz Pérez de la Fuente. ARI 74/2021 - 1/9/2021.
Political failure to tackle the pandemic divide will aggravate the dangerously divergent paths between the advanced economies and China, and many emerging markets and developing economies.
Spain’s recovery plan: strengths and challenges
Miguel Otero-Iglesias & Raymond Torres. Expert Comment 27/2021 (English version) - 02/8/2021 .
Spain's recovery plan, Spain Can, is a coherent tool to revive the national economy, based on a combination of investment and reforms. However, for it to succeed, Spanish actors will have to become aware of this opportunity and engage in dialogue.
Public health in Korea and Europe: contemporary challenges and possibilities for cooperation
Mario Esteban & Ramón Pacheco-Pardo (Eds). Working Paper 02/2021 (printed version) - 29/7/2021.
This working paper covers the cooperation in public health between the EU member states and Korea. This was an underdeveloped area of cooperation before COVID-19 but intensified after the outbreak of the pandemic in Europe as the authorities looked East for partners with an effective record in managing the pandemic.
Next Generation EU: Germany focuses its climate policy on hydrogen and sustainable mobility
Christoph P. Kiefer. ARI 69/2021 - 19/7/2021.
This paper discusses the key green transition elements in Germany’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), that amount to 42.7% of the funds and largely focus on fostering zero emissions mobility, developing hydrogen capabilities and enabling climate-friendly construction and renovation.
Iran’s presidential election 2021: what to expect from Ebrahim Raisi’s first term
Luciano Zaccara. ARI 68/2021 - 16/7/2021.
This analysis explores the implications of Ebrahim Raisi’s victory in the 2021 Iranian presidential election. First it analyses the process that drove him to victory, the defeat of the reformist and pragmatists, and the impact of the elections on the Iranian political system. Secondly, it describes the foreign-policy decision-making mechanism and how Raisi will build his power structure within such mechanism. Third, it tries to foresee the possible Iranian foreign policy during his first term in office.
The Slovenian EU Presidency: time to move forwards
Ilke Toygür, Funda Tekin & Nicoletta Pirozzi. Expert Comment 25/20201 (English version) - 12/7/2021.
On 1 July 2021 Slovenia took over the Presidency of the Council of the EU from Portugal.
The climate and energy transition component of the Spanish National Recovery and Resilience Plan
Enrique Feás & Federico Steinberg. ARI 64/2021 - 6/7/2021.
The authors analyse the aspects of Spain’s National Recovery Plan related to sustainability and ‘green’ investments.
The UK’s Integrated Review and the future of cyber
Danny Steed. ARI 63/2021 - 01/7/2021.
Cyber is a centrally crucial element to the UK’s future vision of national security. The Integrated Review considers cyber as a core component of national power, rather than a mere security issue in and of itself.
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