This paper studies a particular aspect of the choice of exchange rate regime by EU candidate countries in the run-up to …Dieses Papier untersucht einen besonderen Aspekt bei der Wahl eines Wechselkursregimes von EU Beitrittskandidaten auf …

implementation of the EU’s economic rules. Each Semester concludes with recommendations for the euro area as a whole and for each EU … deteriorated since. The European Semester is not particularly effective at enforcing even the EU’s fiscal and macroeconomic …

European Union (EU) countries offer a unique experience of financial regulatory and supervisory integration … markets. However, the policy framework proved inadequate in the context of the major financial crisis in the EU starting in … structural institutional change for the EU, arguably the most significant since the introduction of the euro. Even in its current …

consolidation, but in most EU countries and at aggregate EU level, consolidation was premature when the cyclical position of the …

deprivation and low work intensity, the Gini coefficient of income inequality would have to fall by 3.5 points in each EU country … thresholds make the EU-wide poverty aggregate pointless. We approximate the EU-wide distribution of income and use it calculate … EU-wide poverty indicators. The political agreement between EU member states expressed the goal of reducing poverty, not …