Le pari de Monsieur Cameron
Europe La presse britannique a constaté, à juste titre, que la politique européenne annoncée dans le récent discours du Premier ministre britannique se définit comme un double pari. Il parie […]
EU economic affairs
Publications
A case for adjusting fiscal consolidation in the eurozone
Fiscal consolidation is essential to ensure the sustainability of eurozone countries’ public debt. However,as a principle, consolidation should not be pursued at a pace unnecessarily undermining growth in the short […]
Reforming the system of financing the EU budget
In the framework of the adoption of a new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the period 2014-2020, the European Commission has come forward with an ambitious proposal introducing new “genuine” […]
Macro-economic conditionalities in cohesion policy
European Parliament Note. This note discusses the European Commission’s proposal to introduce wide-scale macro-economic conditionalities in cohesion policy. In essence, this would make cohesion funding dependent on respecting the European […]
Preventing the rise of sovereign borrowing costs in the eurozone: what can the ESM and the ECB achieve?
Crisis management instruments in the Eurozone have gradually evolved from an ‘ex-post’ perspective- where official financial support would only be granted once a country has lost access to financial markets […]
Partners in crisis: EU strategic partnerships and the global economic downturn
Many people anticipated that economic and political power would shift from the West to the East and the South in the coming decades. Likewise, deepening interdependence has been widely commented […]