The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) andthe European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) aretoday among the most dynamic and most frequentlydiscussed policy topics within the EuropeanUnion. Developing a European profile in foreign andsecurity policy has become one of the key...

For over a decade, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's preeminent think tank, have tracked the march of economic freedom around the world with the influential Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and...

In this paper we question the consensus of using a binary crisisdefinition for empirical crisis models. We believe that the most severeshortcomings of the crisis models today are in the crisis definition rather than the explanatory variables ...

This paper analyses the regulatory framework which applies to the determination of directors’remuneration in Europe and examines the extent to which European firms follow best practices incorporate governance in this area, drawing on an empirical analysis of the governance systems thatEuropean...

The paper examines challenges in effectively implementing the lender-of-last-resort function in the EUsingle financial market. Briefly highlighted are features of the EU financial landscape that could increaseEU systemic financial risk. Briefly described are the complexities of the EU’s...