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IS THE WELFARE STATE
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The Summer 2010 issue of Europe's World looks at a number of policy areas where that lesson must be borne firmly in mind by today's decisionmakers. The global economic recession has laid bare a range of issues that need to be addressed very promptly before they develop further and become difficulties of a very different magnitude. It has also accentuated long-term trends to which Europe has so far failed to respond.

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Albanian Institute for
International Studies

Austrian Study Center
for Peace and
Conflict Resolution

Vienna Institute for
International Economic
Studies

Madariaga European

 Foundation

EGMONT

Solidar

Centre for European
Policy Studies (CEPS)

European Centre for
International Political
Economy (ECIPE)

European Trade Union
Confederation (ETUC)

European Institute
for Asian Studies
(EIAS)

Institute for European
Environmental Policy
(IEEP)

Friends of Europe

Security & Defence
Agenda (SDA)

Institute for Security
and International Studies

Centre for Liberal
Strategies

Institute for
International Relations
(IMO)

Cyprus Center for
European and
International Affairs

Cyprus Policy Center
(CPC)

Forum 2000
Foundation

Institute of International
Relations (IIR)

Policy Association
for an Open Society
(PASOS)

Baltic Development
Forum

Danish Institute for
International Studies
(DIIS)

Open Estonia
Foundation

Estonian Foreign
Policy Institute
(EVI)

Institute for European
Studies at International
University Audentes

Finnish Business
and Policy Forum
(EVA)

Robert Schuman
Foundation

Confrontations Europe

Notre Europe

Kiel Institute
for World Economics

Institut der deutschen
Wirtschaft Köln

Mannheim Centre for
European Social
Research (MZES)

The Greek Centre of
European Studies and
Research (EKEME)

Hellenic Foundation for
European & Foreign
Policy (ELIAMEP)

Institute for World
Economics (IWE)

Center for EU
Enlargement Studies

Institute of European
Affairs (IEA)

Istituto Affari
Internazionali (IAI)

Istituto per gli Studi
di Politica Internazionale
(ISPI)

Centre for European
and Transition Studies

The Institute of Democratic
Politics (IDP)

Luxembourg Institute for
European and
International Studies

Mediterranean Academy
of Diplomatic Studies
(MEDAC)

Center for International
Relations (CIR)

Institute of Public
Affairs (IPA)

Institute for Strategic
Studies (ISS)

Institute for Strategic
and International
Studies (IEEI)

The European
Institute of Romania

Institute of
European Studies

Institute of World
Economy and International
Relations (IMEMO)

Research Center of
the Slovak Foreign
Policy Association

Institute for
Civilization and Culture

Fundacion para las
Relaciones Internacionales
y el Dialogo Exterior

Real Instituto Elcano
de Estudios Internacionales
y Estratégicos

European Institute of
the Mediterranean
(IEMed)

Stockholm International
Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI)

Swedish Institute of
International Affairs (UI)

Geneva School of
Diplomacy and International
Relations

Europe's Forum on
International Cooperation
(Euforic)

The Hague Centre
for Strategic Studies
(HCSS)

Economic Development
Foundation (IKV)

Economic Policy
Research Institute
(TEPAV/EPRI)

Federal Trust for
Education & Research

Think Tanks and
Civil Societies Program
(TTSCP)

Constantinos Karamanlis
Institute for Democracy
(CKID)

College of Europe

Institute of European
Studies at the Université
Libre de Bruxelles

Institute for European
Studies at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Center for European
Programmes, American
University in Bulgaria

Dept of Eur. Studies
Shanghai Institute for
International Affairs

Fac of International
relations, University
of Economics in Prague

Estonian School of
Diplomacy (ESD)

Faculty of International
Relations of the
EuroUniversity

Eurocollege
at the Tartu University

Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de
Strasbourg

Europa-Institut

Jean Monnet Centre of
Excellence at Freie
Universität Berlin

Robert Schuman Center
for Advanced Studies,
EUI

Dept of International
Relations at the
University of Padua

Dept of Social and
Political Studies,
University of Pavia

School of Political
Life and Diplomacy,
Vytautas Magnus Univ.

Fac. of studies of the
Eur Econ Integration,
Rom.-American Univ.

Dept of Political Science,
University of Lund

European Institute at
İstanbul Bilgi University

Dept of European Studies
and Modern Languages,
University of Bath

Center for International
Studies at the
University of Cambridge

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