The EU citizens are at the heart of DG Justice and Consumers' policies which guarantee their fundamental rights and freedoms as well as their rights to participate in the internal market in a Union of rule of law and democracy. In 2016 the DG has continued to deliver on the DG's work programme...

Inflation expectations constitute a subject of particular contemporary interest to central banks, especially those pursuing a monetary policy based on a strategy of direct inflation targeting. Macroeconomic theory indicates that the transmission of monetary policy impulses and their impact on...