This paper provides an analytical approach to the negotiation process for financial assistance in Latvia. We believe that auditing the negotiation process may help us gain a better understanding of financial assistance programmes' outcomes. More specifically, we assume that decision-makers...

This paper provides an analytical approach to the negotiation process for financial assistance in Latvia. We believe that auditing the negotiation process may help us gain a better understanding of financial assistance programmes' outcomes. More specifically, we assume that decision-makers...

We argue that the characterization of the financial turmoil in the European Monetary Union as merely a sovereign debt crisis is inaccurate insofar as the deterioration of public finances represents the culmination of a process: legal and institutional flaws laid the ground for a public debt...

This chapter examines the implications of the new European economic governance framework from a policy-learning point of view. It is argued that a new form of EU learning influence has emerged in the wake of the EMU legal and institutional crisis. The author takes the view that an inherent...

On 14 January 2014, the Bundesverfassungsgericht ruled on the European Central Bank's OMT programme. This ruling is unprecedented in a number of respects. In ruling on sovereign debt purchasing by the ECB, the Bundesverfassungsgericht took a position on the current incompleteness and asymmetry...