The World Trade Organization (WTO) serves as a place where trade policy issues are addressed, disputes arbitrated, legal frameworks derived and enforced. Through these functions, the WTO ensures that the rules of trade policy are inspired by fairness and reciprocity rather...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) serves as a place where trade policy issues are addressed, disputes arbitrated, legal frameworks derived and enforced. Through these functions, the WTO ensures that the rules of trade policy are inspired by fairness and reciprocity rather...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has three primary tasks, to negotiate new rules, monitor implementation, and settle any disputes that arise. It is not fulfilling any of these tasks very well at the moment. Should Members just muddle along, hoping for the best, or seek...

Many Western European countries have dramatically ramped up spending on integration in the hope it will help the large numbers of recently arrived refugees find work and settle into their new societies. But very little is known about how best to target these investments....

Nachhaltigkeit beginnt in den Kommunen – sie sind die Basis für die Umsetzung der 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) der Vereinten Nationen. Kaum eine Kommune, die sich derzeit mit dem Thema Nachhaltigkeit beschäftigt, tut dies, ohne verstärkt die SDGs in den Blick zu...

Shared decision making (SDM) involves clinicians and patients working together to select appropriate care, based on clinical evidence and the patient’s informed preferences. This study, conducted by the British care-researcher Dr. Angela Coulter, examined the state of SDM...

Is Europe ready to take its fate in its own hands? Both politicians and citizens ask for more security as common good – time to finance a truly European security policy.

The multilateral trading system, as embodied by the World Trade Organization is under threat. Even before Trump and trade wars, the WTO lost the central role it had as a place discussion, rule-making and conflict resolution. A new paper that the Bertelsmann Stiftung...

Ist Europa bereit, sein Schicksal in die eigene Hand zu nehmen? Politiker und Bürger fordern mehr Sicherheit als öffentliches Gut - Zeit für die Finanzierung einer echten europäischen Sicherheitspolitik.

Die etablierten Parteien suchen nach Strategien gegen den Rechtspopulismus. Das gilt auch für die CSU. Sie sollte dabei nicht übersehen: Die AfD ist eine Partei im rechtspopulistischen Abseits. Wer sie nachahmt, könnte selbst dort landen.