Inhalt: 1. Die historische Ausgangslage (Weidenfeld, Werner: Europa - aber wo liegt es? - Schulze, Hagen: Nation und Nationalstaat im Wandel) . - 2. Die Staatenwelt in Europa (Woyke, Wichard: Belgien, die Niederlande und Luxemburg. - Gros, Jürgen: Bundesrepublik Deutschland. - Menudier, Henri:...

bpb-Beschr.: Unser Leben ist bereits sehr stark von der Europäischen Union geprägt. Für viele ist sie nur ein Bürokratiegebilde, dessen Politiker nichts anderes tun, als neue Regeln und Gesetze zu entwickeln. Wer sich jedoch intensiver mit der EU beschäftigt, merkt schnell, dass die meisten...

The EU Single Market remains far from completed: progress in goods and services market integration has stalled, financial markets are still fragmented along national lines and the barriers to labour mobility remain high. Restrictive regulation within countries and regulatory heterogeneity across...

The downturn in fixed investment among advanced economies from the onset of the global crisis was unusually severe, widespread and long-lasting relative to comparable episodes in the past. As a result, investment gaps are large in many countries, not only in relation to past norms but also...

The negative interest rate policy (NIRP) has been in place in the euro area since June 2014. While the NIRP can provide additional monetary accommodation in the situation where the neutral rate of interest is most likely negative, there are also unintended consequences for banks’ profitability...

The euro area sovereign debt crisis highlighted important weaknesses in the euro area design. Fiscal policy did not build sufficient buffers before the crisis, which forced some countries to tighten fiscal policy too rapidly during the downturn to restore market confidence in sovereign...

The paper examines the possible design and macroeconomic stabilisation properties of a euro area unemployment benefits re-insurance scheme using annual historical data from 2000 to 2016. The scheme we propose is similar in some aspects to the recent proposals, including the IMF’s paper on the...