The European Policy Centre (EPC) is an independent, not-for-profit think tank dedicated to fostering European integration through analysis and debate, supporting and challenging European decision-makers at all levels to make informed decisions based on evidence and analysis, and providing a platform for engaging partners, stakeholders and citizens in EU policy-making and in the debate about the future of Europe.

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Research center – Think Tank

Objectives

– foster European integration
– support and challenge European decision-makers at all levels to make informed decisions based on evidence and analysis
– provide a platform for engaging partners, stakeholders and citizens in EU policy-making and in the debate about the future of Europe

Main Activities

– policy dialogues, briefings, seminars and conferences. The EPC has more than 400 members, coming from all the different stakeholder groups, and these events bring them together with key policy-makers and experts to discuss issues of crucial importance to the EU.
– publication (online and printed) of analysis and reflections through in-depth Discussion Papers and Working Papers, shorter Policy Briefs and Commentaries.
– publication of reports

Strengths

Place of meetings, debates, common reflexion based on contradictory argumentations serving the EU construction

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