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Capacity building for local and regional authorities in the light of the Ukraine Facility (Pillar III)
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Date:
12 Sep 2024 - ongoing
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Client: European Committee of the Regions :
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Project leader: CASE – Centre for Social and Economic Research :
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Partner: IEMed – European Institute of the Mediterranean public Consortium :
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Agnieszka Kulesa
Lead Social Sciences Researcher
Dr Agnieszka Kulesa is the Lead Social Sciences Researcher at CASE. She supports business development and oversees and contributes to research and analytical projects. Having joined CASE in 2018 as an economist, she served as Vice-President of the Management Board from 2021 to 2024. Agnieszka has authored or co-authored numerous publications, including peer-reviewed articles and reports for European institutions such as the European Commission (EC), the European Parliament (EP), the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).
Projects from this author:
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Study to analyse national sick leave policies and their impacts on workers’ health and productivity to identify best practices for workers and businesses
The project involves carrying out a comparative study of national sick leave policies in the European Union. It focuses on analysing sick leave policies and their impacts on workers’ health and productivity, with the aim of identifying best practices for workers and businesses.
- Drivers of involuntary part-time employment in the EU
- Study on “Countering local state capture: Best practices in protecting local governance systems from systemic corruption”
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Study to analyse national sick leave policies and their impacts on workers’ health and productivity to identify best practices for workers and businesses
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Oskar Chmiel
Senior Social Sciences Researcher
Projects from this author:
- Study on ‘The local and regional dimension of the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans’
- Study on “The role of local and regional authorities and decentralised cooperation in fragile settings: building on the Nicosia Initiative in Libya”
- The Role of the WTO in EU Trade
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Andrzej Robaszewski
Director of Fiscal Policy Studies and Sustainable Development
Andrzej Robaszewski is Director of Fiscal Policy Studies and Sustainable Development. His areas of expertise also include EU economic governance, energy markets and ESG.
Projects from this author:
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MTIC Gap 2026 – Update of the Intrastat-based Methodology
The main objective of the study is to reduce uncertainty regarding both the scale of MTIC fraud in the European Union and the most robust methodological approaches for measuring it. The project builds on the Commission’s 2024 analytical work, which assessed alternative estimation methods and tested a machine-learning-based approach using Intrastat mirror statistics for EU trade in goods covering the period 2010–2023.
- Study to Quantify the Excise Gap
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The challenges of VAT beyond VAT in the Digital Age
This study should consider possible improvements to the EU VAT system and assess their feasibility and likely consequences, based on the analysis of its current weaknesses, gaps, inefficiencies. As requested by the ToR, this requires a forward-looking analysis and prospective reflection, combined with and based on the retrospective assessment of the current situation. The study requires, on the one side, a thorough re-assessment of well-known problems of the EU VAT systems, which have been discussed for years by policymakers, scholars and in courts and tribunals, the solutions to which have already been long proposed in the academic as well as policy arena. On the other side, it requires a fresh view to identify new solutions to old problems, new problems and their possible solutions, as well as potential unknown problems, i.e. those that may appear in the future given the current economic, political and legal evolution and the megatrends of the EU and global society. Operationally, the activities needed to achieve the objectives of the study are straightforward. For each of the areas or angle of analysis, the study team will have to: Identify existing weaknesses and challenges of the EU VAT system, including those that may appear in the future given the likely evolution of the current situation. Design solutions to the problems identified. Assess the feasibility and consequences of the solutions identified.
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MTIC Gap 2026 – Update of the Intrastat-based Methodology
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Katsiaryna Kasykh
Senior Project Manager
Katsiaryna Kasykh is a Project Manager at CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research, where she leads partnership development, prepares grant and tender proposals, and oversees the financial and contractual management of EU-funded and internationally funded projects. Her responsibilities include strategic planning, budgeting, expert coordination and ensuring full compliance with donor requirements, contributing to high-quality delivery across multi-country analytical assignments.
Projects from this author:
- Study on “Countering local state capture: Best practices in protecting local governance systems from systemic corruption”
- Project mBank-CASE
- Study on ‘The local and regional dimension of the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans’