The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is a new governance method applied in the European Union to policy fields where the main competences still rest with the member states. The OMC should help to foster mutual learning about successful policies and promote policy transfer by identifying best...

This paper analyses the potential effects of the open method of co-ordination on pension reforms in the European Union from an economic point of view. The main results are: (1) For the first time, the Commission formally participates in the input of pension policy-formation of the member states,...

Das Jahr 2010 hat die Krisenanfälligkeit der Eurozone deutlich gemacht und den Blick auf die unzureichende Politikkoordinierung der Mitgliedstaaten gelenkt. Dieser Beitrag stellt die we-sentlichen Reformvorschläge im Bereich der Fiskalpolitik, der Wirtschafts - und Strukturpolitik und zur...