The process of what has been labeled Europeanisation has been considered by many scholars as one of the major challenges posed by the external environment on domestic politics. Political parties are forced to deal with it as one that constitutes a fundamental change to their operational context....

This note provides an overview of France's economic, political and administrative set-up. It then concentrates on the special conditions in the Regions Centre and Ile-de-France, with a description of the EU support (ERDF) 2007-2013 within those territories. The note has been prepared in the...

This note provides an overview of France, its political, economic and administrativesystem, together with a description of European Union support to France, and theOperational Programmes contained in the National Strategic Reference Frameworkfor the period 2007-2013.Special attention is given to...

After the switch to a floating exchange rate in 1973, the Swiss National Bank at first adopted annual monetary targets and in the 1990s shifted to a medium-term targeting strategy. In this paper I review the SNBu0092s internal policy analysis, an aspect of Swiss monetary targeting that has...