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The central scope of the evaluation is the Commission’s co-operation strategy with the region of Eastern and Southern … European Commission’s relevant external cooperation services and the wider public with an overall assessment of the Commission …’s past and current cooperation relations with the ESA-IO region; -identifying key lessons in order to improve the current and …
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The imbalances in bargaining power between the contracting parties in the food supply chain have drawn much scholarly attention but have also been closely examined by policy makers. The European Commission is committed to facilitate the restructuring of the agricultural sector by encouraging the...
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Starting from an overview of the political background of the Kosovo issue, rooted in Serb and Albanian history, the paper then describes the main features of the current situation: "nothing more than autonomy" from one side, "nothing less than independence" for the other. Against this...
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evaluation aims at providing an overall independent assessment of the Commission’s past and current cooperation for conflict … European Commission support to CPPB, as defined by the 2001 Commission Communication on Conflict Prevention (COM(2001)21) and …
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Commission (hereafter referred to as “the Commission”) support to Conflict Prevention and Peace Building (CPPB). This evaluation …
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Conflict Prevention and Peace Building, which is part of the 2008 evaluation programme approved by the External Relations and …
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components of the IcSP: (a) responses in situations of crisis and emerging crisis (IcSP Regulation Article 3); (b) conflict …
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Societies provide institutions that are costly to use, but able to enforce long-run relationships. We study the optimal decision problem of using self-governance for risk sharing or governance through enforcement provided by these institutions. Third-party enforcement is modelled as a costly...
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When people share risk in financial markets, intermediaries provide costly enforcement for most trades and, hence, are an integral part of financial marketsu0092 organization. We assess the degree of risk sharing that can be achieved through financial markets when enforcement is based on the...
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Exchanges and other trading platforms are often vertically integrated to carry out trading, clearing and settlement as one operation. We show that such vertical silos can prevent efficiency gains from horizontal consolidation of trading and settlement platforms to be realized. Independent of the...
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