European crisis management is an unusual policy area which, in spite of its relative novelty, has evolved considerably in the last decade. Its institutional architecture in particular is relatively complex but the EU Council Presidency is often forgotten in it, since it tends to be characterized...

In today’s media society, political communications play an essential role within the scope of politics. It has become a necessity for political actors in modern democracies to inform and involve citizens in the process of political decision-making, as there is a need for legitimisation towards...

Political decision-making in the Euro-crisis has relied heavily on executive discretion, exercised at speed and rationalised with reference to the pressing demands of emergency. This paper explores the challenges raised for political opposition, notably challenges of a temporal kind. With its...

The process of approximation between the EU and its ‘eastern neighbourhood’ has created conditions for deepening economic interactions and market integration, giving to the EU – and to EU businesses – an elevated role in the process of economic modernisation and transition in the...

There are two main ways of international tax cooperation: unification of tax provisions and exchange of information for tax purposes. Even if the last one is hardly acceptable, still it seems to be more tolerable than the former one. Exchange of information can help combating international tax...

Recognised and shaped by regulatory strategies pulling in different directions, the European consumer may be portrayed as a fractured subject. By drawing from the Pasta and Hormones litigation, the article investigates its multiple and heterogeneous identities as resulting from the interaction...

Paper‐based document marking is still a mostly manual process that discourages standardization and security. This white paper is intended to explore the process of secure and efficient paper‐based document marking and printing using Microsoft® Word. At the same time it will explore the...

There is a widespread perception among the public and policy-makers that EMU carries one-way pressures for enhanced flexibility in the labour market. We discuss the theoretical basis of this by examining four mechanisms through which the establishment of the common currency and the functioning...