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 …

's poverty target is out of reach. Both strategies were based on variants of the 'at risk of poverty' indicator, which has an … cointegration evidence, that the 'at risk of poverty' indicator essentially measures income inequality, not poverty. Our … deprivation and low work intensity, the Gini coefficient of income inequality would have to fall by 3.5 points in each EU country …