: outputs or results? Is budgetary reform successful? Fiscal stress is a key driver in all cases, but not the only reason for …

The present EU budget is inconsistent with the current state and future prospects of European integration. Three … goals of the Union. Transforming the Community budget into a means through which the economic policy of the Union is … rise to a EU Budget Law to be approved alongside national budget laws. …

governance devices do they develop in order to tackle the specific regulatory challenges at stake? Is the 'shadow of hierarchy …

, to govern the actions of the private urban actors as local policy makers, and to conceive and manage the implementation … of an integrated approach as coordinators, which we introduce in this paper as three levels of city smartness. Local … combination of local circumstances and interventions by higher levels of government. We categorize the state of the art …

governments and what those governments are able to deliver. This mismatch between the growing demand for good governance and its …

European Governance on the other hand. Institutional interests may explain this separation of discourses. However, in practice … European governance is characterised by interactions between public and private actors at multiple territorial levels …