EU funds that promote economic convergence will hardly reach their objective in countries sliding toward a system that lacks effective checks and balances. The idea of financially sanctioning EU Member States has been advocated for some time and took shape concretely in May 2018. The European...

Sustainability-oriented tax-based own resources would do more than just help to close the existing sustainability gaps in EU taxation. Member States primarily consider their individual net positions, i.e. the difference between their payments into the EU budget and the transfers they receive out...

In May 2018, the European Commission published its proposal on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the period 2021–2027. Preparation for the post-2020 MFF requires comprehensive analysis of the characteristic features of the EU budget and of the priorities that should be supported at...

The introduction of behavioural insights into policy-making is welcome, because they challenge traditional assumptions in policy-making which are largely inspired by neoclassical economic thinking. In line with good evidence-based policy-making, they make us question and test how people behave...

The heterogeneity among European manufacturing systems has widened in the last fifteen years under the competitive pressure of new industrial powers within and outside the EU boundaries, and as a result of the 2008 global recession. This paper describes such transformation, in terms of the...