The Common European Asylum System calls for increased coordination of the EU countries’ policies towards asylum seekers and refugees. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of the effects of coordination, explicitly modelling the democratic process through which policy is determined. In a...

The so-called Constitutional Treaty (CT) of the EU, currently in the middle of the ratification process, is seen by its advocates as a major step for the advancement of European integration, conciliating simultaneously a democratic deepening, a more efficient decision- making process in the EU,...

This paper proposes three propositions for the future of European industrial policy, based on a discussion of the Report 'An Agenda for a Growing Europe' (Sapir at al, 2004). My first proposition is that the growth gap between Us and Eu indeed exists, it is not a statistical artefact, in spite...

The aim of the paper is firstly provision of an analysis of the perception of the EU a year after the accession. It is shown that the population of the Czech Republic is shortly after accession rather sceptic about the EU integration. This serves as a context for a discussion the European...

In the past he EU has taken up an ever more important role in matters of cohesion policy. The objectives and principles of EU cohesion policy have been given a strong constitutional basis. We describe the development of this EU constitutional frame in the first section. We then turn our...

The governance of tax policy is one of the key issues that must be resolved by the new Constitution. Taxation is an area in which the tension between subsidiarity and coordination is acute. This paper reviews recent Union policy alongside an analysis of the underlying economic issues. The...

HISTORICAL, GEOPOLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING STATE AND NATION BOUNDARIES: FOREWORD ON ITALY’S BORDERS IN ISTRIA AND DALMATIA. - Boundaries of states are often taken as a given although they seem, in not a few instances, to be quite arbitrary. Their origins and changes through the...

The recent agreement on financial perspective 2007-2013 provided new member states with substantial cohesion resources to speed up their real convergence process. The primary objective of the paper is to explore key policy issues, faced by new member states, if they want to successfully absorb...

This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...

Aronson-Johnson-Lambert redistribution index RE can be correctly applied provided that after taxation incomes maintain the same pre-tax order in what it concerns (i) group average incomes and (ii) within group incomes. If this is not the case, R should be replaced by the transvariation index...