Regional governments' discretion in allocating structural funds is mainly limited by the competences of the Commission to control implementation and fiscal activities of decentralized governments. In this paper, we analyse implementation of ERDF funds in Eastern Germany in the financial...

Das vorliegende Buch hilft, die wirtschaftlichen Aspekte Europas zu verstehen, indem es grundlegende Annahmen und Strukturen darstellt, bisherige Abläufe sowie Erfolge und Misserfolge schildert und die Probleme und Widersprüche der europäischen Wirtschaftsintegration benennt. Der Leser...

The book tackles a key issue for the European Union: Fiscal Federalism. It evaluates the applicability of this theoretical perspective for the EU. Conversely, it pinpoints ways in which the diversity of existing fiscal settings and organisations, both at national and European levels, can throw...