RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Anne Power and Monika Zulauf, September 2011, What Works Collaborative
As the United States searches for cost-effective ways to develop clean energy, Anne Power and Monika Zulauf provide lessons from Germany's energy saving program. Local and national actions that set a framework for energy usage, and provide incentives for decreasing emissions, would help the United States follow Germany’s lead in meeting carbon reduction targets and cultivating a growing sector of clean energy jobs. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and Julie Wagner, June 2011, The Brookings Institution
In partnership with the ESADE Business School and the City of Barcelona, the Metropolitan Policy Program planned and participated in three intensive days of learning in Barcelona in June, with a focus on metropolitan revitalization. Policy experts explored examples of strategies the city of Barcelona and its greater metropolitan region has embraced to rebuild and reinvent their economies. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Justin Vaïsse, October 21, 2010, The Diane Rehm Show
Justin Vaïsse discusses recent strikes in France and their implications for economic reform efforts in Europe. Vaïsse contends that the protests have been sparked by specific reform measures and that there is general acceptance in France of the need for effective government action to counter demographic and fiscal realities. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Oliver Jones, May 25, 2010, The Brookings Institution
The next iteration of federal transportation policy in the United States should take cues from Britain’s strategy to make spending decisions based on economic and environmental goals, writes Oliver Jones. The U.K. is on the path of implementing a policy process focused on the prioritization of transportation projects with highest social return. Learning from this process, American transportation stakeholders could move the reform discussion forward in a substantive way. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julie Wagner, April 12, 2010, The Avenue, The New Republic
Though President Obama has recently called for a doubling of American exports to boost the economy, the strategy may have unintended side effects, says Julie Wagner. She explores the potential strains on the country’s most trafficked ports, a possible increase in congestion on local roads, and bureaucratic barriers to port expansion. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julie Wagner, February 26, 2010, The Avenue, The New Republic
Regional planning in American cities may not be receiving much media coverage, but the Grand Paris project, led by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, has spawned nearly one hundred articles and editorials in publications worldwide. Though the plan conflicts with regional efforts already under way in Paris, Julie Wagner believes all the attention actually may push the concept of regionalism to a wider audience. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julie Wagner, February 23, 2010, The Brookings Institution
Even as Germany loses its title to China as the world’s top exporter, the European nation still has a great deal to teach the United States about trade. Julie Wagner explores options for the U.S., including building a national strategy to maximize funds used for freight and focusing on improving trade infrastructure. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Justin Vaïsse, January 2010, Esprit Magazine
In this review essay, Justin Vaïsse rebutts the main claims made by Christopher Caldwell in his recent Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. While Caldwell depicts a continent on its way to lose its Western identity to Muslim immigration, Vaïsse argues that he gets many of his facts wrong and misrepresents a complex situation in which successes of integration coexist with enduring – but not existential – problems. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Justin Vaïsse, January/February 2010, Foreign Policy
“Eurabia” – a new, mostly American genre of political literature – predicts that Europe will soon lose its Western identity to the growing population of Muslim immigrants. Justin Vaïsse challenges the “Eurabia” thesis, arguing that its proponents rely chiefly on anecdotes and distortions of Europe’s demography and social dynamics, while misrepresenting Muslim identity. Read More
BOOK
Daniel Benjamin, February 19, 2009
The European Union is the most successful supranational organization in history. It has reconciled former enemies, established a single market and a common currency, and reintegrated Central and Eastern Europe into the West. Yet the EU remains unsatisfying to its members and its partners. An economic giant but a political pygmy, it seems hamstrung by bureaucracy and a lack of connection to European publics.
In Europe 2030, distinguished authors predict what the European Union will look like twenty years from now. A range of views is presented, foreseeing everything from slower growth and diminished power to actions that would make the EU a more vigorous, influential world player. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Federiga Bindi, June 16, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Following the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by Irish voters, Federiga Bindi believes the process should continue on as planned rather than sacking or changing the treaty. Bindi remarks that membership in the European Union is not obligatory and notes Ireland can still co-exist happily without destroying hopes for further integration across the continent. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Washington, DC
On May 20, 2008, the Center on the United States and Europe held its fifth annual conference. As is in previous years, the conference brought together leading scholars, officials and policy-makers from both sides of the Atlantic to examine issues shaping the transatlantic relationship and to assess the evolving roles of the United States and Europe in the global arena. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Washington, DC
The Center on the United States and Europe hosted Simon Hix to discuss his new book What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It. Visiting Fellow Federiga Bindi moderated the event. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Federiga Bindi, March 2008, ISA 2008 Conference
Since the SEA and the complexion of the Single Market, the increasing flow of EU directives – with its inherent characteristics of supremacy over national law and of direct effect characterizing de facto most of the EU legislation, including most directives - made member states realize the usefulness of being proactive negotiators in EU law making. Consequently, all member States elaborated procedures and established ad hoc coordinating bodies to deal at best with the formative phase of EC law – i.e. that phase in which the national administrations (in primis the governments and its bureaucracies, but also the Parliaments and the parties in them and, where relevant, also regional authorities) determine their “national position” to be negotiated with their European partners. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
12:00 AM to
Washington, DC
The failed terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow have once again brought Britain's Muslims back into the spotlight, and sparked renewed feelings of unease and suspicion, despite the alleged perpetrators having come from abroad. In this tense environment, there is an evermore urgent need for counterterrorism authorities to engage with the mainstream British Muslim community, while correctly identifying those that pose a threat to public order. Read More