This essay attempts to go beyond presenting the bits and pieces of – still ongoing – crisis management in the EU. Instead it attempts at finding the ’red thread’ behind a series of politcally improvized decisions. Our fundamental research question asks, if basic economic lessons learned...

This article assesses whether the EU Treaty freedoms - the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital - should be considered as fundamental rights which are hierarchically equal to other fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach...

Quality Assessment in Universities as an organized process is relatively new in Europe (about 30 years old). As many other aspects in education, it is centrally controlled, either by a state agency, or by an independent agency. In the US on the other hand, the top institutions themselves...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Power Shifts and German-French Differences -- 2. Power Shifts -- 3. Historical Roots of German-French Differences -- 4. German-French Differences in Economic Philosophies -- Part II. Monetary and Fiscal Stability: The Ghost of Maastricht -- 5....

Die Europäische Währungsunion (EWU) soll am 1. Januar 1999 starten. Nicht auszuschließen ist, daß die Kriterien des Maastrichter Vertrags bei der Entscheidung über den Teilnehmerkreis Anfang 1998 großzügig gehandhabt werden und damit die Zahl der Teilnehmer hoch sein wird. Eine strikte...