EU-25/27 Watch No.5

The EU-25/27 Watch gives an overview of the positions of the EU member states and candidate countries Croatia and Turkey on a variety of policy issues:

• The future of Europe at the end of the German presidency
• Climate change and the EU's energy policy
• Security culture in member states and implications for European foreign and security policy
• Unemployment, labour markets and the future of the welfare states in the EU
• Other current issues of high salience in the member states

The publication was conducted on the basis of a questionnaire that has been elaborated in April 2007 by research institutes and think tanks based in the member states. Most of the 28 reports were delivered by mid-July 2007. Louise van Schaik, Fellow Clingendael European Studies Programme, has delivered the contribution on the Netherlands. The piece is preceded by a synthesis of major findings and trends in the EU member states written by Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin that coordinates and edits the EU-25/27 Watch.