As the Eurozone crisis drags on, it is evident that a part of the problem lies in the architecture of debt and its liabilities within the Eurozone and, more generally, the European Union. This paper argues that a large part of the problem can be mitigated by permitting appropriately-structured...

The Eurozone crisis constitutes a grave challenge to European integration. This essay presents an overview of the causes of the crisis, and analyzes why has it been so difficult to resolve. It focuses on how responses to the crisis were shaped by distributive conflicts both among and within...

The emphasis of the European Semester should shift from economic policy coordination - intended as the process through which Member States commit to common rules and recommendations adopted by the Council of the European Union under the surveillance of the European Commission - to a stronger...

This report provides an update on the role of national social partners in the European semester process over the period 2015-2016, describing the main developments and changes compared with a previous Eurofound study on their involvement during the period 2011-2014. It examines the social...

This report provides an update on the role of national social partners in the European semester process over the period 2015-2016, describing the main developments and changes compared with a previous Eurofound study on their involvement during the period 2011-2014. It examines the social...

The implementation record of the Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs) has declined over time, as financial turbulence lessened and the economic outlook started to improve. Urgency for reforms seemingly receded to leave room to request member states to move towards more accommodative stances....

Same as European Union Law, that presents a new area of law and that it is still in progress, the Criminal Law EU, as part of thanks, of course, also it is developing, and we can freely say, just its doors are open to development within the Europe Union. Undoubtedly, the developments within the...

The Lisbon Council's 2015 study on intellectual property is shown to be a showcase of methodological blunder, including the use of five different currencies in an inter-country analysis, cherry picking results from over 460 statistical tests based on sample sizes no larger than 8, and many other...