40 years of European integration...40 years of CEPS

We were the first European think tank to actively advise EU policymakers. Today, we’re still the largest independent think tank in Brussels.

We’ve had a front row seat for the most important developments in Europe over the past 40 years, from the fall of Soviet communism and the development of the Single Market in the 1980s, to the birth of the euro in the 1990s and the global financial crisis of the 2000s.

Now, in the geopolitically uncertain world of the 2020s, we’ve branched out into other fields such as migration, the digital economy, jobs and skills, and security policy.

In the years ahead, we must confront the climate crisis, Great Power rivalry, the return of war to Europe and a multitude of economic problems, first and foremost high inflation and a cost-of-living crisis.

Especially in such unstable times, CEPS will continue its mission to challenge, watch and examine what European policymakers are doing on a day-to-day basis and the decisions they make.

Here’s to the next 40 years.