In this paper, I endeavour to examine concrete challenges, which arise with regard to implementation of the precautionary principle in the field of European Community regulation of GMOs. Developed by the European Courts into a general legal principle, precaution requires EU regulators to strike...

AbstractThe EC harmonized market entry regulation for pharmaceuticals from the early sixties on, but it achieved neither its goal of uniform national regulatory decisions nor that of automatic mutual recognition. Subsequent attempts to Europeanize the procedures themselves resulted in two...

This paper addresses three issues. Beginning with the sovereignty puzzle that emerges from multilevel governance analyses (in terms of the endurance of sovereignty within structures of overlapping authorities), it suggests supplementing the static view of multilevel governance with the dynamic...

Recent scholarly work has underlined the importance of being cautious about the notion of Euro-skepticism by putting stress on alternative concepts and measures. This theoretical and empirical contribution has enriched the debate on support for Europe and its potential multidimensionality....

This paper highlights some drawbacks in the planning of infrastructures and public works in Italy. The major flaws lie in the overlapping of competences and failure to implement effective coordination mechanisms among the different levels of government, together with the lack of a clear...

We investigate the distribution of European Union (EU) Structural Funds across EU regions. We draw from literature on the political economy of national intergovernmental grants and on the two-tiered bargaining process in the EU. Bargaining on the distribution of Structural Funds takes place on...

This paper argues that the European Commission exercises its entrepreneurial role in building European governance institutions primarily through discursive means. Tracing the foundations of this particular mode of policy entrepreneurship informs a reconsideration of the Prodi Commission's White...