The issue of burden and cost reduction, both regulatory and administrative, has become a leitmotif that regularly appears at the table of the European Council.In this respect, the "one in, one out" regulatory compensation system, which consists of replacing any new cost linked to a legislative...

This Working Paper provides a critical analysis of the EU Commission's proposals to modernise and simplify its rules on public procurement. The author of the paper, Eric Van den Abeele, looks at the political background and reasons behind the EU's revision of its public procurement directives....

The aim of this research paper is to review the recent emergence on the European scene of the concept of open strategic autonomy and the consequences it may have for EU action. Originally stemming from the language of the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and the common security and...