Die Europäische Kommission (Artikel 13, 17 EUV, Artikel 244 –250 AEUV, ex-Artikel 211–219 EGV) ist das politische Organ der EU, in dem die Mitglieder und die Willensbildung ganz von den Mitgliedstaaten gelöst sind – sie stellt die Exekutive der EU dar. Die Kommission versteht sich dabei...

Der Europäische Rat (Artikel 13, 15 EUV, Artikel 235-236 AEUV) ist mit dem Vertrag von Lissabon zu einem Organ der EU geworden. Der Europäische Rat gibt der EU die für ihre Entwicklung erforderlichen Impulse und legt die allgemeinen politischen Ziele fest, er wird jedoch nicht gesetzgeberisch...

We provide an early assessment of the Juncker Commission's contributions to the ongoing reform of the euro area. In doing so, we present a chronological summary of the reform process up to 2014. At the time, the euro area architecture had undergone many changes. These were mainly focused on risk...

We study the political economy of allocation decisions within a major state investment bank. Our focus is the European Investment Bank (EIB) – “The Bank of the EU” – which is the largest multilateral lending (and borrowing) institution in the world. We study the behavior of about 500...

The paper deals with the interplay of major international infrastructure initiatives, in particular China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Japan’s Partnership for Quality Infrastructure and the EU strategy on “Connecting Europe and Asia”. Their co-evolution is interpreted as the creation and...

In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements at the Vilnius Summit in November 2013. This paper asks what went wrong and what can be done about it. Using a gravity model to estimate the effects of deep and shallow free...

Die Grundfreiheiten des Europäischen Binnenmarktes sind der freie Warenverkehr, der freie Dienstleistungsverkehr, der freie Zahlungs- und Kapitalverkehr sowie der freie Personenverkehr und die Niederlassungsfreiheit. Die Generaldirektion Binnenmarkt der Europäischen Kommission hat den Auftrag,...

The national customs services of the twenty-seven EU Member States are playing a crucial role for the preparation of the admission of further states to the European Union (EU) by helping to build structures and teach the EU Customs Law in order to enable candidate states to apply the acquis...

Many legal advisers, scientists and practitioners know since many years, that the Common External Tariff (CET) of the European Community (EC) is being applied non-uniform from the different national customs services and that the economic operators are using this systematic fault of the EC for...

Der Beitrag stellt die Aufgaben und Arbeitsweise des Europäischen Rechnungshofs dar (eines Organs der Europäischen Union).