Reforming the Market Design of EU Electricity Markets: Addressing the Challenges of a Low-Carbon Power Sector. CEPS Task Force Report, 27 July 2015

This CEPS Task Force Report focuses on whether there is a need to adapt the EU’s electricity market design and if so, the options for doing so. In a first step, it analyses the current market trends by distinguishing between their causes and their consequences. Then, the current blueprint of EU power market design – the target model – is briefly introduced, followed by a discussion of the shortcomings of the current approach and the challenges in finding suitable solutions. The final chapter offers an inventory of solutions differentiating between recommendations shared among Task Force members and non-consensual options.

spotlight europe #2015/02—July 2015: A Gulf CSC Could Bring Peace and Greater Security to the Middle East

Wars continue to ravage in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Refugees are wandering around aimlessly in the Middle East with many fleeing to Europe. Saudi Arabia and Iran are adding fuel to the flames. They are vying for supremacy while remaining highly suspicious of each other. A Conference for Security and Cooperation could help to ease existing tensions. Many years ago the CSCE was a resounding success. It could thus serve as a blueprint with the nuclear agreement with Iran as a starting point of such a venture.

Prospects for Security on the European Continent. EU Diplomacy Paper 05/2015.

This collective EU Diplomacy Paper on relations between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the European Union (EU) consists of essays written by students of the EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies programme at the College of Europe in the class on EU-NATO relations taught by Fulbright Professor Mark Sheetz in the academic year 2014-15. It seeks to provide a blueprint of what the near future of the transatlantic alliance and of the European security framework might look like. Special attention will be given to the possible effects of Finland joining NATO, Swedish-NATO relations, the question whether NATO should continue to exist at all, and finally the use of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in relation with the transatlantic military alliance.

Xi's Real Test: Delivering on Reform and Maintaining Stability in 2014. Asia Policy Brief 2014/02, February 2014

Emerging signs of economic difficulties have greatly compounded the tasks facing new Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the year of horse. After his government rolled out a surprisingly ambitious blueprint for systemic economic reform in November last year, Xi, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), now finds his agenda complicated by the urgent need to stabilize the overleveraged financial sector while taking the first steps to implement enough of his promised reforms to gain credibility.

The shadow of Chornobyl. Ukraine thirty years after the disaster. OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 210/22.04.2016

Thirty years after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster, its aftermath and consequences are still a permanent element of the economic, environmental and social situation of Ukraine, Belarus and some regions of Russia. Ukraine, to which the scope of this text is limited, experienced the most severe shock because, among other factors, the plant where the accident took place was located just 100 km away from Kyiv. Its consequences have affected the course of political developments in the country, and have become part of the newly-shaped national identity of independent Ukraine. The country bore the huge cost of the clean-up effort but did not give up on nuclear energy, and today nuclear power plants generate more than half of its electricity. The system of social benefits for people recognised as disaster survivors, which was put in place by the Soviet government, has become a huge burden on the country’s budget; if implemented fully, it would account for more than 10% of total public spending, and is therefore being implemented to only a partial extent. This system has reinforced the Ukrainian people’s sense of helplessness and dependence on the state. The disaster has also become part of the ‘victim nation’ blueprint of the Ukrainian national myth, which it has further solidified. The technological and environmental consequences of the disaster, and hence also its economic costs, will persist for centuries, while the social consequences will dissipate as the affected generation passes away. In any case, Chornobyl will remain an important part of the life of the Ukrainian state and society.

Ten-year check-up : have federal agencies responded to civil rights recommendations?

Vol. 3, shipping list no.: 2003-0285-P.

Project Independence.

Mode of access: Internet.

National drug control strategy.

Some vols. have also a distinctive title.

Project Independence: an historical perspective.

At head of title: Federal Energy Administration Project Independence blueprint final task force report.

What are you going to be? Little talks on the vocations,

The business of life.--In the market.--Behind the counter.--On the road.--The man with the X-ray eye.--"Will it pull?"--The magic pen.--The artists and their magic.--The blueprint.--In court.--The night bell.--Makers of men.

The Illinois public agenda for college and career success /

... After a year of study, deliberation, and collaboration with literally hundreds of stakeholders in higher education and the state economy, the Public Agenda Task Force presented the Illinois Public Agenda for College and Career Success to the Illinois Board of Higher Education, which has statutory responsibility for master planning for higher education. On December 9, 2008, the Board unanimously endorsed the Public Agenda as the blueprint to guide education policy -- from preschool to graduate school -- in Illinois for the next decade.

Topography near the summit of Ox Hill. Ford Estate. Seal Harbor, Maine

Red and black pencil on blueprint. Duncan Chandler, architect. Residence, drive, walks in pencil over topo plan. Unsigned. 105 cm. x 88 cm. Scale: 1"=8' [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

General surroundings of the estate of Edsel Ford, esq.; Seal Harbor, Maine

Blueprint with pencil notations. Roads, residence, some contour lines. Duncan Chandler, architect. Unsigned. 94 cm. x 83 cm. No scale [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

House for Edsel Ford, esq. ... Southwest elevation; Seal Harbor, Maine

Blueprint with notations. Note: Suggested treatment for living hall windows and living room arbor. Duncan Chandler, architect. Unsigned. 78 cm. x 30 cm. Scale: 1/8"=1' [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

House for Edsel Ford, esq. ... General plan; Seal Harbor, Maine

Blueprint with pencil annotations. Markings on portions of grounds. Duncan Chandler, architect. Unsigned. 77 cm. x 70 cm. Scale: 3/32"=1' [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]