In this paper, presented to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, Nicolas Véron discusses whether the EU should adopt the controversial IFRS 8 standard, a convergence project on how companies should report the performance of their individual business segments....

Following the adoption by the Basel Committee of new capital rules for banks, a process is now taking place in the EU to transpose the rules into Community law and, ultimately, into national legislation. This paper gives an overview of the main issues that relate to the EU implementation, mainly...

Between 1990 and 2019, the European transport sector was expected to reduce its CO2 emissions by 40 per cent to keep track with the 100 per cent CO2 reduction target on the 1990 level set by the European Commission for 2050. But, in fact, the transport sector has increased its CO2 emissions by...

Das Verfahren zur Setzung von neuen Nachhaltigkeitsstandards ist de facto eine Privatisierung von EU-Hoheitsgewalt, die nicht von den EU-Verträgen gedeckt ist. Das ist das Ergebnis dieses Gutachtens von Martin Nettesheim, Professor für Europarecht an der Universität Tübingen. Er verweist...

On May 1, 2004, ten countries in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe will become full members of the EU. The parliaments and monetary authorities of the ten accession countries have already to a large extent adapted their legal and institutional structures to the new Europe-wide environment....

Der renommierte Göttinger Rechtswissenschaftler Prof: Dr. Rüdiger Krause bezweifelt massiv, dass die Rechtsposition der EU-Kommission zum anhängigen sog. TUI-Fall am EuGH haltbar ist. Er sieht in seiner Stellungnahme zum Fall keine rechtlichen Gründe dafür, dass ein EU-Mitgliedstaat...

Professor Dr Rüdiger Krause, a renowned jurist from Göttingen, has serious doubts as to whether the EU Commission's legal position on the pending so-called 'TUI Case' is tenable at the ECJ. In his opinion, he does not see any legal reasons for an EU Member State to restrict certain voting...