The Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) has a tradition of formulating recommendations to the incoming Council Presidency. Katrin Böttger (Institut für Europäische Politik), Juha Jokela (Finnish Institute of International Affairs), Kristi Raik (Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the International Centre for Defence and Security), and Bianca Toma (Romanian Center for European Policies) contributed to the recommendations. Funda Tekin (Institut für Europäische Politik) coordinated the process and composed the recommendations. They do not necessarily represent the views of TEPSA or its member institutes.

The recommendations will be presented to the incoming Romanian Presidency by Lucia Mokrá (Comenius University Bratislava) on the occasion of the TEPSA Pre-Presidency Conference on 22 and 23 November 2018 in Bucharest. The conference is organised by the Romanian Center for European Policies (CRPE) and TEPSA, with the support of: the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union, the National Bank of Romania, the European Institute of Romania, Enel, and Tarom.