Over the past five years, the renewable energy sector has experienced an unprecedented boom in terms of investment and technological development, due to growing recognition of the role it will play in combating climate change, ensuring energy security and sustainably meeting rising energy...

The recent extensive package introduced by the Commission is the most comprehensive reinforcement of economic governance in the EU and the euro area since the launch of the Economic and Monetary Union. Broader and enhanced surveillance of fiscal policies, but also macroeconomic policies and...

The European Monetary Union is an unprecedented event in economic history: it is based on an institutional model characterized by a combination of a single monetary policy, mandated by sovereign states to an independent supranational institution, the European Central Bank, and decentralized...

After the international financial crisis, new financial regulations were adopted at the international, regional (EU) and national levels. The timing, the sequencing and the interaction of reforms at different levels followed distinct patterns, which had implications for the design and the...