Center for European Politics
| Center for European Politics (cep) |
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| founding | 2006 |
| founder | Regulatory Policy Foundation |
| Seat | Freiburg |
| main emphasis | Regulatory evaluation of EU policy projects |
| Chair | Lüder Gerken |
| Website | www.cep.eu |
The Center for European Politics (CEP, spelling of the abbreviation "cep") was originally founded as a German think tank based in Freiburg . The partner institute "cepFrance" (cepfrance.eu) has existed in Paris since the beginning of 2019. cep and cepFrance see it as their main task to analyze and evaluate the legislative proposals of the European Union on the basis of regulatory criteria.
The CEP was founded in 2006 under the umbrella of the Ordnungspolitik Foundation and is headed by Lüder Gerken , the chairman of the Ordnungspolitik Foundation and the Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Foundation . The founding curator was the former German President Roman Herzog, who died in 2017. The following persons are or were involved in the Board of Trustees: Leszek Balcerowicz , Frits Bolkestein , Udo Di Fabio , Jürgen Stark , Holger Steltzner , Hans Tietmeyer and, since 2020, the former German EU Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger . There are now partner institutes of cep in Paris and Rome with cepFrance & cepItalia. In 2019 cep France was founded as a non-profit foundation fund (fonds de dotation) with headquarters in Paris and French employees, in 2020 cepItalia with headquarters in Rome. In close cooperation, cepFrance, cepItalia and cep in Germany want to contribute to a better mutual understanding of the often very different interests of the three countries and to develop solutions based on a market economy. Partner institutes in other European countries are being planned. CepFrance is headed by the French political scientist Julien Thorel. Stefano Milia is the director and Andrea de Petris is the scientific director for cepItalia in Rome.
Goals and activity
According to their self-portrayal, the foundation and think tank work at the interface between science, politics and the public with the aim of strengthening a policy geared towards freedom and a market economy at EU level, while restricting regulation and bureaucracy to the absolute minimum.
As a competence center, cep bridges the gap between the politics of the European Union and its perception and support in Germany. In dialogue with science, politics, the media and the public, it develops strategies and concepts for EU economic policy, supports current European political projects constructively and independently, and creates transparency and awareness of European politics and its effects in Germany.
With this, the CEP wants to inform the public about developments at EU level and their effects and to show concrete options for action. It also prepares reports and advises politicians across all parties on economically relevant EU policies. The regulatory principles of a free and market economy system form the scientific foundation.
background
The CEP is the European policy think tank of the Ordnungspolitik Foundation . The foundation strives to maintain and timely further development of the regulatory tradition of the Freiburg School , as it was founded by Walter Eucken , significantly deepened by Friedrich August von Hayek and politically implemented by Ludwig Erhard .
On the basis of the scientific advancement of regulatory economics, the foundation designs feasible policy options and makes the public aware of the importance of regulatory thinking. At the level of European politics, the CEP performs these tasks.
Memberships
The CEP has been a member of the European Movement Germany (EBD) since 2011 .
criticism
At the beginning of 2019, the CEP published a study according to which Germans in the euro area have benefited most clearly from the common currency since its introduction. The researchers had put the gross domestic product (GDP) of the euro countries at different points in time in relation to the GDP development of suitable non-euro countries, without considering reforms of individual countries or the consequences of the European Central Bank's interest rate policy for the population. Experts therefore disputed the informative value of the study, commented Clemens Fuest , that the growth in Germany and Italy cannot be counted towards the introduction of the euro. Representatives of the CEP rejected the criticism and referred to another study in which the "synthetic control method" would have worked. Fuest's criticism that countries were selected as the control group for the cep study, “which would have developed by chance in terms of GDP growth like Germany before the introduction of the euro”, is not considered by cep to be applicable because, in addition to GDP, gross fixed capital formation , the industrial share of gross value added, the inflation rate and exports and imports were used.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Board of Directors. In: cep.eu. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Center for European Politics (pdf), on cep.eu, accessed on August 5, 2020
- ↑ a b organizational chart , on cep.eu, accessed on August 5, 2020
- ↑ Anja Ettel, Holger Zschäpitz: "Germany as a big euro profiteer - is that really the case?" Welt.de from February 27, 2019
- ↑ Egmond Haidt: "Study makes Germany a big euro winner - experts warn against wrong conclusions" focus.de from February 26, 2019
- ↑ Rolf Obertreis: "The euro alone cannot eliminate deficits" tagesspiegel.de of February 25, 2019
- ↑ Explanation of the reactions to the study 20 Years Euro , on cep.eu
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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 7 ° 50 ′ 54.6 ″ E