Our theoretical model suggests that 'bureaucratisation' is a potential threat to future economic growth in the EU. The … competing for resources just like fishermen or hunters. EU bureaucracies will, given economical rational self-interest, try to … reap more than what is efficient at the EU level and consequently raise the general taxation level in the EU. This idea …

The EU Commission has recently proposed a new directive establishing a framework for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions … that the EU will meet its Kyoto target level of an 8% GHG reduction. Our main question is whether the final choice of …

Why has the EU been so eager to continue the climate negotiations? Can it be solely attributed to the EU feeling …-ests in the EU, at least partly, explain the behaviour of the EU? We suggest that the EU has a rational economic interest in … reductions on 38 OECD countries, implies that, as a first-mover, the EU will be to sell the neces-sary new renewable technologies …