This paper focuses on the way a crisis needs an institutional actor and champion. Through painfully slow intervention and muddling through, the ECB created new policy space for a European financial and banking system that was on the point of collapse. However the institutional commitment to...

This paper argues that, in the absence of a strong membership incentive within the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), a top-down institutional convergence of CIS countries towards European standards - i.e. democracy and market economy - is unlikely to be successful. However, due to enlargement...

This paper investigates the consistency of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan with the economic and industrial policy objectives outlined in the "Next Generation EU" plan and the European Commission's New European Industrial Policy. We analyze official policy documents in order to...