'EU 2020' is an ongoing CER work programme that analyses a number of long-term trends and their impact on the European Union. The main themes are:

• the EU's institutional architecture and models of flexible integration
  
• future enlargements and the wider Europe
  
• demographics, immigration and social change
  
• the European economic and social model in a globalised world
  
• technological change, energy and the environment
  
• relations with great and rising powers such China, India and Russia
• the future of transatlantic relations
• the EU's policy towards the greater Middle East
• new threats such as terrorism, failing states and weapons proliferation.