The EC harmonized market entry regulation for pharmaceuticals from the early sixties on, but it achieved neither its goal of uniform national regulatory decisions nor that of automatic mutual recognition. Subsequent attempts to Europeanize the procedures themselves resulted in two alternatives...

European social policy has two central dimensions: the relation between liberalized market freedoms and social protection, on the one hand, and the distribution of regulatory competencies between the supranational and the national level on the other. The posted workers issue, i.e. the question...

In a world with multinational companies (MNC's) changes such as those implied by the realization of EC's internal market will affect the locational choice made by geographically mobile MNC's. The reason is that the reduction of trade barriers within the EC puts non-EC members at a competitive...

Die für 2019 geplante europäische Kapitalmarktunion zielt auf eine vertiefte Integration der Kapitalmärkte der EU-Mitgliedsländer ab. Sie knüpft sowohl am Binnenmarkt als auch an der im Zuge der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise geschaffene Bankenunion an. Als Argumente für die...