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14 December - The Polish Presidency of the EU Council

The ongoing crisis in the Eurozone has posed particular challenges to the current Polish EU Presidency. Poland, like Sweden, is not a member of the Euro Group and has therefore been excluded from some of the most important decision-making during the second half of 2011.
Moreover, the...

8-9 December - Conference on Social Europe

The relation between economic goals and social ambitions has always been much-disputed within the European cooperation. Not least in times of economic crisis, member states ability to combine the demands of the internal market with a social policy in the interest of the citizens is put to test...

9 December - Social Europe for Consumers, Citizens and Workers

This seminar is the second of three held during the SIEPS conference on Social Europe.

Speakers
Antonina Bakardjieva-Engelbrekt, Professor of Law, Stockholm University
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9 December - General services - local interests

This seminar is the last of three held during the SIEPS conference on Social Europe.

Speaker
Caroline Wehlander, Researcher in Law, Umeå University
Ulf Bernitz,...

8 December - Social Europe at the Time of Economic Crisis

This seminar is the first of three held during the SIEPS conference on Social Europe.

28 November - Law, Politics and Climate Change: EU Strategies for Durban

In December 2011, the EU and other concerned parties will convene in Durban in order to try to reach an agreement governing emission reductions after 2012, when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires. The EU has been a leading actor in the climate negotiations since the 1992...

26 october - EU and the Swedish welfare

Welfare services in Sweden are to a large extent the responsibility of municipalities, county councils and regions. This includes the provision of housing, health care, waste management and education to the citizens. The actual execution of those tasks however, is frequently delegated to private...

13 October - EU, the euro and the crisis

The ongoing sovereign debt crisis is putting its distinct mark on Europe. In order to deepen the understanding of the crisis and the efforts undertaken within the scope of EU cooperation, the Committee on Finance in the Riksdag and SIEPS are hosting a seminar. Starting point for the discussion...

6 October - Organised interests in the European Union

Can involving organised interests in the decision-making process enhance the democratic legitimacy of the EU? Thomas Persson and Karl-Oskar Lindgren, political scientists at Uppsala University, have set out to answer this question through studying the process that produced the new regulatory...

29 September - EU and the Swedish wolf-hunting

The Swedish wolf-hunting policy is today an issue high on the EU agenda, something that can hardly have escaped anyone. The European Commission has questioned the Swedish management plan for wolves and the Swedish government has replied by replacing the 2012 licensed hunting with extended...

21 June - Achieving Europe's R&D Objectives: Delivery Tools and Role for the EU Budget

The EU’s R&D policy has recently come under the spotlight. It is a central element both in the review of the EU budget and in the so called Europe 2020 strategy, where the goal of increasing the level of investment in R&D in the EU to three percent of GDP is emphasized. This seminar will...

17 June - Corruption in Europe

The quality of government shows considerable variation within and between EU member states. At this seminar, the authors of the swedish report Corruption i Europe will present new and unique data of regional differences in the quality of government and a number of conclusions regarding...

14 June - Regional Disparities and Regional Policy in the European Union

The aim of reducing regional disparities in the European Union is enshrined in the EU Treaty. An important aspect that takes centre stage in discussions on the EU’s so-called cohesion policy is the ranking of the Union’s many regions in terms of their levels of prosperity. This ranking largely...

17 May: Swedish public opinion on the EU

Swedish public opinion on the European Union has undergone considerable changes since Sweden became a member. Last year, SIEPS and the SOM Institute presented data showing a majority of Swedes in favour of membership for the first time since 1996. In what way then has the euro crisis affected...

12 May: The EU as a Global Actor - Lessons from the Arab Spring

The Lisbon Treaty emphasized the need for a more coherent and comprehensive European foreign policy – and supposedly gave the EU the institutional tools to carry it out. More than one year on, and in the midst of a 'stress test' from the Arab uprisings, how well are these goals being...

Europadagen 9 maj: När allmänintresset möter marknaden - EU och kommunerna i praktiken

Municipalities, counties and regions in Sweden bears responsibility for ensuring that people have access to housing, health care, waste management and schools. These are services of general interest to all citizens. Many of these services are also provided in areas where new markets are being...

Europe Day 9 May: The Long-Term Budget of the European Union - What Should Go In? What Should Go Out?

Even though the EU Member States are ambitious in setting the agenda for the European Union, they are less keen to provide the funding necessary to meet these ambitions. Indeed, if we seriously sought to attain all goals and ambitions of Member States, it would easily swallow large parts if not...

29 March EU-rätten, Ungern och pressfriheten

At the end of last year, the Hungarian parliament adopted a new media law. It was immediately criticized for constituting a threat to the freedom of the press and for being incompatible with EU law. Even the European Commission questioned the  law and its consequences, leading up to the...

21 March: Which Economic Governance for the European Union?

Sovereignty over the Economic and Monetary Union, EMU, is divided. Monetary policy is unified at the European level while economic policy is in essence national. The debate on how the economic part of the EMU could be given a content so as to prevent future crises has been re-ignited during the...

21 March in Brussels: The Creeping Nationalisation of the EU Enlargement Policy

Often presented as the "most successful EU foreign policy", enlargement has been one of the most significant undertakings of the European Union over the last two decades. The recent admission of numerous states to the Union has however exposed shortcomings in the way in which that policy is...