Apart from the contested institutional competence of the EU for the construction and management of a navigation … satellite system the hitherto experience in the trial and validation phase has confirmed doubts concerning the EU’s capacity to … concepts proposed by the EU regulation as of 11 December 2013 will not be sufficient to overcome the expected difficulties …

This paper empirically examines whether expansion of the EU has increased international tax competition. To do so, we … studies, we find robust evidence for tax competition. In particular, our estimates suggest that EU membership affects … responses with EU members responding more to the tax rates of other members. This lends credence to the above-noted concerns. …

The Everything But Arms agreement, introduced by the EU in 2001, eliminated duties on most imports from the least … countries to the EU. Using a panel of sector-level data across countries, our estimates suggest that, contrary to expectations …, the agreement may have increased the skill-content of these exports, benefitting the lowest-skilled EU workers at the …

Wettbewerbsbeschränkung als im wohlfahrtsökonomischen Sinne effizient anzusehen ist. Er befürchtet, dass die EU-Kommission Effizienzgewinnen …