Mit dem Sächsischen Dienstrechtsneuordnungsgesetz vom 18.12.2013 ordnet nunmehr auch Sachsen die Professorenbesoldung mit Wirkung zum 01.04.2014 neu. Das BVerfG hatte mit seinem Urteil vom 14.02.2012 die Beamtenbesoldung in der Besoldungsgruppe W2 in Hessen als "evident unzureichend" verworfen...

The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat mit Urteil vom 14.2.2012 die Besoldung in der Besoldungsgruppe W2 in Hessen als "evident unzureichend" verworfen. Im Hinblick auf die gesetzte Frist wurden zwischenzeitlich in Hessen und Bayern Neuregelungen der Professorenbesoldung zum 1. Januar 2013 wirksam;...

In February 2012, the German Federal Constitutional Court declared the salaries of level W2 professors in the State of Hesse unconstitutional due to their lack of sufficient alimentation power. In the meantime, federal and nearly all state legislators have provided (draft) laws in order to...

In virtually all EU Member States, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is complemented by support schemes for electricity generation from renewable energy sources (RES-E). This policy mix has been subject to strong criticism. It is mainly argued that RES-E schemes contribute nothing to...

Die Frage, ob Liberalisierung und Energiewende die Schaffung eines Kapazitätsmarkts zur Gewährleistung der Versorgungssicherheit notwendig machen, ist seit einigen Jahren Gegenstand kontroverser wissenschaftlicher und öffentlicher Debatten. Hintergrund hierbei ist zum einen, dass der Anteil...

The European Council has proposed to stick to a more ambitious GHG target but to scrap a binding RES target for the post-2020 period. This is in line with many existing assessments which demonstrate that additional RES policies impair the cost-effectiveness of addressing a single CO2...

The German energy transition repeatedly faces harsh critiques questioning its economic and environmental merit. This article defends the Energiewende and argues that Germany has chosen a rational and particularly forceful approach to securing sustainable energy supply. Though current...

It is often argued that energy policy is too fragmented across EU Member States and should be Europeanized to pave the way towards an efficiently organized European power system, which rest on the internal market for energy and a pan-European super-grid. However, this view neglects i) the...