"The Ever-Changing Union" provides a concise overview of the EU's history, institutional structures and decision …-making processes. As such, its aim is not to cover the breadth or complexity of information that can now be found in EU text books … beginnings in the early 1950s to the current ratification problems of the Treaty of Lisbon. A second part presents the EU's main …

This study consider the main weaknesses of the EU's financial framework and what needs to be done to reinforce the … legitimacy and added value of the EU's actions. The author, an official at the European Court of Auditors, argues that the review … of the EU budget represents an opportunity to put in place three unavoidable reforms: a revenue system that, in whatever …

architects of the EU's foreign policies, who have to find a consistency in their dealings with all neighbours, large and small … around the EU …

change in agriculture. Since 2005, the EU has provided decoupled support to farmers through the single payment scheme (SPS … capitalisation of support into land values in the EU, and if so, to what extent. Drawing from a combination of data sources … offers preliminary evidence of the reaction of EU land markets and asset values to the changes in policy …

goods at EU borders and whether such a tax would be compatible with WTO rules. The major findings are: 1. A CO2 border tax …

agriculture and fisheries, for its three non-EU members. As an extension to the single market of a mere 1% in GDP, the EEA has … for Liechtenstein; new options for Turkey; ‘more', or indeed, ‘less EU' and an EEA-type option for the United Kingdom that …

structural reforms have not yet taken hold. The EU-led macroeconomic adjustment programmes outside the euro area (e.g. Latvia …