literature survey and a practical study of five mobile phones. In the literature survey WEEE management approaches in the EU and … identified and noted down for every removed component. This disassembly gave insight in how the WEEE management in the EU could … be adapted to improve the amount of component recovery. A final suggestion is to implement an EU objective open …

The decrease in the rule of law and in control of corruption in several EU countries is a threat to the cohesion in the … EU. Brexit has reinforced the centrifugal forces in the EU. To counter this threat the EU needs to engage in unpopular … possibility of individuals to appeal to European courts to counter negative developments in governance in EU Member States. …

This essay discusses the determinants of youth unemployment within the EU and then the alternative policy options … currently at stake. We argue that youth unemployment regards especially some peripheral EU countries and is due to a mix of … should be to reform the Maastricht Treaty so as to allow eacg EU country to reach the Europe 2020 targets. Moreover …

distribution is also examined. We compare the situation in 2009 with that in 2014 (or 2013) for fifteen EU Member States … those in strong recovery by 2014. As EU-SILC micro-data containing household income for 2013 or 2014 are not available yet …, standard EUROMOD routines are enhanced with additional adjustments to the EU-SILC based input data in order to take into …

detected in the low-tech industries. From a policy point of view, this outcome is supporting the EU2020 strategy, but taking …

cigarettes, the structure of the consumption, but also the amount of the tax revenue. EU Directive 2011/64/EU prescribes the … determine the shares of one or another component in the overall excise tax structure, whereby the EU directive only prescribes … in the EU. The first one is that an increase of the specific component of the cigarette excise negatively affects the …

380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade …

tasks, despite the availability of huge financial opportunities in the form of EU structural funds. Existing policies are …