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Survey data from 13 EU member states show that Europeans assess the impact of immigration on their country in a more positive light than they did in 2002. Despite the 2015 reflugee inflow and an increased polarization of citizens’ attitudes towards...

While the geopolitical rivalry between the European Union (EU) and Russia over their common neighborhood has increasingly attracted academic and public

Russia's impact on EU policy transfer to the post-Soviet space has not been as negative as often perceived. EU policies have traveled to countries and issue areas, in which the dependence on Russia is high and Russian foreign policy is increasingly...

Secure and well-managed migration and mobility figure prominently in the European Union’s (EU) relations with its Eastern neighbors. In the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP), the EU relies...

This policy paper aims at offering suggestions on how to improve the effect of policy conditionality in European Neighbourhood Countries (ENC). It speci

The literature on European Union enlargement has identified misfit and membership conditionality as two factors that decisively shape the effectiveness of EU policy transfer to the Central and Eastern European accession countries. Thus, European...

The widespread view that the refugee crisis has sparked unprecedented levels of European Union politicisation has rarely been backed by systematic empirical evidence. We investigate this claim using a novel dataset of several thousand user comments...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 88: The Schengen Agreement celebrated its 30th birthday on June 14. On this occasion Esther Ademmer, Toman Barsbai, Matthias Lücke and Tobias Stöhr, researchers at the Kiel Institute, take stock of the Agreement and argue that...