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Demand Reduction During Low Wind Periods
May 14, 2012. Demand response is often mentioned as one of the means for reducing the necessary back-up capacity of wind power. This briefing paper examines in more detail demand response’s potential to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based back-up capacity of wind. The aim of this briefing paper is to place some of the findings of other studies into perspective and in this way to contribute to the discussions around different Roadmap scenarios. Read more»
Think Tank Roundtable on the EU Multiannual Financial Framework 11 May
May 11, 2012. At the end of June 2012 the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU will come up with a negotiating box for the negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-2020. The euro crisis has its effect on the dynamics in the process and the EU budget is now often seen in light of austerity and the net contributors-debate. It is not unimaginable that the discussion will lead to further cuts in the budget. Where will these cuts be? Will they contribute to economic growth and what are the opportunity costs of certain choices by member states? In addition, recent elections has shown that people are tired of cuts and as a result votes shift to the left. This event has two goals. First, to exchange views of think tanks from all over the EU. Secondly, we will try to find some common ground how to approach the negotiations on the MFF. Read more»
Lunchseminar Habermas en de toekomst van Europese samenwerking, donderdag 24 mei 2012
May 8, 2012. Het Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen ‘Clingendael’ en de Wiardi Beckman Stichting organiseren een lunchseminar over de recente ontwikkelingen in het Europese integratieproces en de visie van Habermas op donderdag 24 mei 2012 in het Huis van Europa. Mr. Drs. Frits Bolkestein en Prof. dr. Frank Ankersmit zullen de discussie aangaan over de toekomst van Europese samenwerking na de eurocrisis. Drs. Jan Marinus Wiersma zal het debat voorzitten.
LISBOAN Award for Outstanding Research on the Lisbon Treaty 2012
May 8, 2012. The book Freedom, Security and Justice after Lisbon and Stockholm has been awarded the LISBOAN Award for Outstanding Research on the Lisbon Treaty 2012. The book was co-edited by Sarah Wolff, Flora Goudappel and Jaap de Zwaan, and published by T.M.C. Asser Press in The Hague. The award is endowed with a prize money of € 1,500. On Friday 11 May the award ceremony will take place in the framework of the annual conference of the LISBOAN network at the Fondation Universitaire in Brussels.
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