The Capital Markets Union (CMU) is a flagship project of the European Commission that promotes a deepening of the financial markets. It aims at opening up new sources of funding for SMEs, as well as improving the matching between savers and borrowers. Additionally, CMU is supposed to increase...

With twelve new members the decision making in the European Union via intergovernmental cooperation will become ineffective. In order to avoid a Stagno-Europe the EU has a choice: Either it looks for the very essentials in the common institutional frame or the member states agree in ceding...

The euro crisis remains unresolved even as financial markets may seem calm for now. The current euro regime is inherently flawed, and recent reforms have failed to turn this dysfunctional regime into a viable one. Our investigation is informed by the "cartalist" critique of traditional "optimum...

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung des funktionalen Verhältnisses zwischen den einzelnen Governance-Formen des europäischen Beschäftigungsregimes zwischen 1997-2007. Es wird die Frage behandelt, wie sich das Verhältnis zwischen den separat in das Regime eingeführten...