This study provides a critical analysis of EU Cohesion Policy reform perspectives for the post-2013 period. On the basis of a literature review and budgetary modelling, the study offers an assessment of the policy's strengths and weaknesses, the main reform ideas and counter-positions, including...

This case study focuses on 'burdensome tax rules' and other obstacles affecting cross-border trade in the land border region between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Since the mid-1990s, associated with the Northern Ireland peace process,...

Headline figures and key findings at the end of 2014 - Activities were implemented under six ESF Operational Programmes -Total financial allocation: EUR 8.7 billion (ESF contribution: 52%) -75.7% or EUR 6.6 billion was incurred by the end of 2014 - 61% of the total ESF investment was attributed...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the LIBE Committee, examines the available mechanisms for personal data transfers between the EU and the UK after Brexit. The study shows that an adequacy...

This note, prepared by Policy Department A for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, summarises the main points presented by the study on "The UK's Potential Withdrawal from the EU and Single Market Access under EU Financial Services Legislation".

This paper examines the evolution of the supervisory framework of third-country CCPs in the EU making special reference to risks associated with the imminent withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Brexit). Its key finding is that the proposed reform is in principle in the...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee, focuses on the legal status of EU active and retired officials and other servants of British nationality in the context of the UK leaving...

This briefing, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, looks into the issue of the governance of the UK Withdrawal Agreement from the perspective of the UK legal and constitutional order. It...