Against the background of governments' consolidation strategies, ETUI researcher Vera Glassner provides an overview of recent developments in terms of pay, employment and reforms of the pay system in the public sector. Cuts and freezes of public sector wages were most frequently imposed...

Introduction -- Regime complexity and main argument -- Dramatis institutiones -- Euro crisis in a nutshell -- Greece 2010 -- The Troika, Ireland, and Portugal -- Spain and Italy -- United States and International Monetary Fund -- New facilities and institutions -- Greece 2012 and Cyprus 2013 --...

Öffentlich-rechtliche Banken galten über Jahrzehnte als Stützpfeiler des deutschen Kapitalismusmodells und waren tief in die politische Ökonomie der Bundesrepublik eingebettet. Dies änderte sich, als die Europäische Kommission im Jahr 2001 das europäische Wettbewerbsrecht gegenüber der...

This paper argues that Capital Markets Union - the EU's attempt to establish a more marketbased financial system - is a result less of financial policymaking than of macroeconomic governance in a politically fractured polity. The current governance structure of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)...