The Elcano Royal Institute's Working Papers are longer documents of an academic nature -usually between 12,000 and 15,000 words long, with footnotes and bibliographies- on current international affairs of relevance to Spain or on different aspects of Spain's foreign policy and security.

Regional or global player? The EU’s international profile

Iliana Olivié & Manuel Gracia. Elcano Policy Paper 2/2020 - 5/5/2020.

By means of the Elcano Global Presence Index, this policy paper aims to depict the EU’s international profile while tracking to what extent its features and the objectives of the EU’s global strategy are aligned with the volume, nature and geographical allocation of the Union’s external projection.

Thirty years of EU-Mediterranean Policies (1989-2019): an assessment

Bichara Khader & Haizam Amirah-Fernández. WP 8/2020 (English version) - 27/4/2020.

This working paper seeks to present a critical overview of the EU’s latest major Mediterranean policies, analysing the context, the text and the pretext of each of these policies.

Oil markets, energy transition, climate governance and COVID-19: the short, the medium and the long term

Gonzalo Escribano & Lara Lázaro-Touza. WP 6/2020 - 22/4/2020.

While the priority of governments and citizens is undoubtedly the fight against coronavirus, the radical change in the short-term context should not distract energy and climate policy from the challenges it faces over the medium and long terms.

Updated policy pathways for the energy transition in Europe and selected European countries

Johan Lilliestam, Lana Ollier, Richard Thonig, Pablo del Río, Christoph Kiefer, Yolanda Lechón, Gonzalo Escribano & Lara Lázaro Touza. 11/12/2019.

This report is a primary data source for the power system modelling in the MUSTEC project, which will bring detailed, quantitiave insights of how the potential role for dispatchable renewables is affected by energy policy decisions.

Policy pathways for the energy transition in Europe and selected European countries

Johan Lilliestam, Richard Thonig, Pablo del Río, Christoph Kiefer, Natalia Caldés, Yolanda Lechón, Gonzalo Escribano & Lara Lázaro Touza. 10/12/2019..

This report investigates the potential future need for and role of two of the main dispatchable renewable power sources available in Europe – CSP equipped with thermal storage and dispatchable hydropower (dam and pumped hydro). The generated data –which will subsequently be fed into two different modelling frameworks in the MUSTEC and SCCER JA IDEA consorti – describe the policy pathways of a set of European countries (France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Switzerland).