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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic …

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European power struggles : can EU’s decarbonisation agenda break the state-company axis in the power sector?

Sattich, Thomas; Ydersbond, Inga; Scholten, Daniel - 2015

Europe's power system is still marked by a distinct national component, and despite some regions with strongly integrated power systems, electricity supply today still has a largely national basis. Policies to decarbonise the power sector may fundamentally alter this situation, because power...

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Who contributes? : a strategic approach to a European immigration policy

Russo, Giuseppe; Senatore, Luigi - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-16

Who pays for immigration control? According to the Lisbon Treaty the cost of enforcing the European border against illegal immigration shall be shared among the EU members. Nonetheless, the Treaty is vague with respect to the “appropriate measures” to adopt in order to distribute the...

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Do strategic foresight and policy making go hand in hand? : security in the European Union

Chloupková, Jarka; Svensen, Tinggaard; Zdechovský, Tomáš - In: Journal of contemporary management : JMC 5 (2016) 3, pp. 33-46

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EU in the struggle for global governance : geopolitical ethics

Kovač, Igor - In: International journal of diplomacy and economy 2 (2014) 1/2, pp. 118-138

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On the potential policy use of biodiversity indicators : limitations of some currently used indices at the country level based on the Hungarian example and recommendations for impr...

Benedek, Zsófia - 2013

In order to facilitate the use of biodiversity indicators in policy making at the country level, a few and well-established indices should be suggested. Promising candidates include biodiversity-related indices of the Convention on Biological Diversity; therefore I evaluate their current use and...