The Great Recession renewed calls for a return of state activism in support of the European economy. The widespread nationalization of ailing companies and the growing activism of national development banks led many to celebrate the reappearance of industrial policy. By reviewing the evolution...

European social policy changed with the evolution of European and global capitalism, the scope and shape of European-level international institutions, the size and heterogeneity of "Europe" as a polity, and the politics of the European national welfare state. The paper outlines the long-term...

Die Welt von heute ist Globalisierung, Deregulierung, Individualisierung und Digitalisierung.Nicht nur geballt in Worten, auch in der Realität prägen diese Phänomene Zeitgeistund Zeitgeist-Handeln. Der technisch-ökonomische Basistrend heißt digitaler Kapitalismusglobal und total. Die...

Why do some countries join the EU earlier than others, why do others wait? Inorder to answer this question we apply the theory of investment under uncertainty (Dixit andPindyck, 1994) to the decision on EU-membership. We develop a simplified model of twoperiods to study how the value of waiting...

The depth of industry integration between European ‘West’ and ‘East’ depends on thesimultaneous existence of several factors, which, through mutual complementarities,align global and local networks. This paper takes the case of Asea Brown Bowery (ABB),one of the first large investors in...

There is a persistent narrative in European Union politics that presents the EU as 'nonideological'. A closer look, however, reveals that EU integration has been (and still is) the source of multiple ideological struggles, especially for political parties. However, we still know little about how...

This paper investigates the definition of the European social dimension and the links between development policies and social concerns. The review of a wide literature on the subject confirms the functionalist view that emerged with the Treaties of Rome: measures promoting economic integration...

I should like to divide my remarks today on the process of European Monetary Integration into three parts. The first is a brief assessment of the progress towards convergence. Under the Treaty, the EMI is assigned an important role in assessing whether countries entering Economic and Monetary...

The European leasing industry is highly concerned by recent developments in theaccounting of lease contracts.LEASEUROPE fears that a profound change to the principles governing the accountingof lease contracts would have serious consequences for the industry in continentalEurope. The Federation...