In contrast to the whirlwind pace and the efficiency with which the science and commercialization of modern biotechnology have developed in the past few decades, the creation of an adequate and comprehensive regulatory regime for agricultural biotechnology has proven to be a lengthy and arduous...

The UN Security Council's 'quasi-legislative' activity in the field of chemical, nuclear and biological weapon proliferation was both challenged and legitimated using the logic of subsidiarity. Non Security Council member states were worried that the unrepresentative, opaque and selective...

In a new CEPS Essay, Michael Emerson assesses the initiatives taken by the UK and Dutch governments to cut out excessive EU regulatory intrusion, namely in the form of the ongoing British Balance of Competences Review and the Dutch list of 54 items of EU regulation that they would like to see...

In more than 130 years, the cooperative banks and rural banks, have become a best practice, widespread in all the Italian regions so as to become, through Federcasse, a federal system included among the 130 European banks, referents ECB. A model that today has about 400 local banks and that,...

Last year, the European Council set forth an ambitious political initiative: "eEurope, an Information Society for All." eEurope will never be realised, however, unless sufficient competitive facilities-based entry occurs. One of the primary barriers to entry in Europe remains the lack of...