This paper studies a particular aspect of the choice of exchange rate regime by EU candidate countries in the run-up to …Dieses Papier untersucht einen besonderen Aspekt bei der Wahl eines Wechselkursregimes von EU Beitrittskandidaten auf …

of EU cohesion policy. We found that the best-performing regions have on average projects with longer durations, fewer …. Interviews with stakeholders suggested that cohesion policy is the most evaluated of all EU policies and generates European value … leads to less-careful management of EU funds. The Performance Framework is seen as creating an additional layer of …

implementation of the EU’s economic rules. Each Semester concludes with recommendations for the euro area as a whole and for each EU … deteriorated since. The European Semester is not particularly effective at enforcing even the EU’s fiscal and macroeconomic …

markets. However, the policy framework proved inadequate in the context of the major financial crisis in the EU starting in … structural institutional change for the EU, arguably the most significant since the introduction of the euro. Even in its current …