Bottom-up processes of policy convergence are increasingly discussed as a substitute for the absence of supranational energy policy coordination and harmonization in the EU. The overall objective of this paper is to analyse the development of government support to renewable energy R&D across EU...

The European Council has proposed to stick to a more ambitious GHG target but to scrap a binding RES target for the post-2020 period. This is in line with many existing assessments which demonstrate that additional RES policies impair the cost-effectiveness of addressing a single CO2...

In this paper, we analyze the rationale for an energy policy mix when the European Emissions Trading scheme (ETS) is considered from a public choice perspective. That is, we argue that the economic textbook model of the ETS implausibly assumes 1) efficient policy design and 2) climate protection...

Art. 9 der europäischen Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (WRRL) statuiert den von den Mitgliedstaaten zu berücksichtigenden Grundsatz der Kostendeckung für Wasserdienstleistungen. Angesichts der allgemein als schwierig eingeschätzten Auslegung des genauen materiellen Gehalts der verschiedenen...