The EU is a supranational governance organization which is quasi-federal in institutional structure and quasi-pluralist in policymaking processes. As such, it has had a significant impact on all member-states' institutional structures, whether federal or unitary, and their policymaking...

The EU needs a permanent EU debt facility to address its many existential challenges, including climate change, energy, inequality, and security related to the Ukraine crisis. The EU's fiscal rules need to be fit for purpose, meaning that rather than primarily targeting debt-reduction they need...

Democratic legitimacy for the EU is problematic if it is seen as a future nation-state. If instead the EU were seen as a regional state - with shared sovereignty, variable boundaries, composite identity, compound governance, and a fragmented democracy in which the EU level assures governance and...

Special topic: Using fat survey data to nowcast euro area GDP growth. After losses in 2018-Q1 and a broad sideways movement in Q2, the euro-area (EA) and EU Economic Sentiment Indicators (ESI) posted moderate decreases of 0.9 (EU) and 1.4 (EA) points in the third quarter. In both cases, the...

Building on the vision set out in the Five Presidents' Report, the Commission presented its roadmap for deepening Europe's Economic and Monetary Union in December 2017. As a next step, in the Multiannual Financial Framework, the Commission is proposing a Reform Support Programme alongside a...

The European Commission's Communication sets out a vision of how certain budgetary functions that are essential for the euro area and the EU as a whole can be developed within the framework of the EU's public finances of today and tomorrow. In this Communication, the Commission presents some key...

The European Commission's Communication sets out a vision of how certain budgetary functions that are essential for the euro area and the EU as a whole can be developed within the framework of the EU's public finances of today and tomorrow. In this Communication, the Commission presents some key...

The Structural Reform Support Programme finances tailor-made technical support to Member States to help them with their reform plans. The support is available to all EU Member States, is demand-driven and requires no co-financing. The Structural Reform Support Programme is implemented by the...