The Bertelsmann Stiftung High-Level Reflection Group brings together decisionmakers and experts to provide answers to the EU’s internal and external challenges

based on the perspective of European public goods.

While the ongoing pandemic affects all European economies, we show that it is likely to cause much more economic damage in some member states than in others. Early fiscal crisis responses by EU governments do not reflect these differences. If anything, countries which are...

Alle zwei Jahre berichtet der „Länderreport Frühkindliche Bildungssysteme“ – 2019 zum siebten Mal – über den Stand der frühkindlichen Bildung in den 16 deutschen Bundesländern. Die einzelnen Bundesländerprofile mit den jeweiligen Stärken und Entwicklungsbedarfen der...

Geht es um Unternehmenskultur, ist es gängige Praxis, von DER Unternehmenskultur zu sprechen. Doch entspricht dies der Realität? Die vorliegende Publikation zeigt, dass es in Organisationen mit den vorhandenen Subkulturen Vielfalt auch innerhalb der Unternehmenskultur gibt –...

Geht es um Unternehmenskultur, ist es gängige Praxis, von DER Unternehmenskultur zu sprechen. Doch entspricht dies der Realität? Die vorliegende Publikation zeigt, dass es in Organisationen mit den vorhandenen Subkulturen Vielfalt auch innerhalb der Unternehmenskultur gibt –...

Defeat cancer before it develops. Prevent crime before it happens. Get the perfect job without having to know the right people. Algorithms turn long-wished-for dreams into reality. At the same time, they can weaken solidarity in healthcare systems, lead to discriminatory...

Defeat cancer before it develops. Prevent crime before it happens. Get the perfect job without having to know the right people. Algorithms turn long-wished-for dreams into reality. At the same time, they can weaken solidarity in healthcare systems, lead to discriminatory...

EU member states must share the burden of the fiscal costs of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pandemic Solidarity Instrument delivers such burden sharing: The EU would borrow 440 billion euros in the market and would give it as grants to member states for specific spending in...

The spread of the latest Coronavirus strain is not simply a health crisis. It has long taken on a geopolitical dimension. China and Russia are engaged in a ‘global battle of narratives’ over who is the most generous international power. In the geopolitical competition for...

External interventions to mitigate crises or end conflicts have rarely succeeded. The EU and its member states, in particular, have repeatedly run up against their limits in the civil wars in Afghanistan, the Congo, Libya, Syria, the Sahel region and Yemen. However, the EU –...