The scale of the ambition to decouple emissions growth from energy consumption in the economy runs counter to several decades of debates and literatures on the limits of government. Transport biofuels are an early and influential case of the policy capacity challenge in the transition to...

Books reviewed in this article: J. Monar and W. Wessels (eds.), The European Union after the Treaty of Amsterdam D. Nicol, EC Membership and the Judicialization of British Politics G. de Burca and J. H. H. Weiler (eds.), The European Court of Justice R. Bellamy and A. Warleigh (eds.),...

We analyze possible reforms to the Bulgarian VAT system, evaluating revenue-neutral reallocations of goods to tax bands within the existing 2-rate structure. We investigate the sensitivity of the results to behavioural response and imperfect tax recovery. We find only a weak case for the use of...