Ideas Monitor #28/2017
What's next for the negotiotations between EU and UK? Further highlights about France-German apparent friendship and its consequences for Europe. ...
Posts Tagged ‘Structural reforms’
Italy’s Jobs Act in European perspective: The flawed economics of flexibility
The causal connection between labour market flexibility and employment—a key idea behind Italy’s Jobs Act—does not find much support in the empirical evidence....
The return of the state in European integration?
The “new intergovernmentalism” works well as an analysis of EU politics and institutions after the euro crisis. Less so as a new theory of European integration....
Spain’s social model in the balance as parties attempt to form a government
As Spanish parties struggle to form a coalition government after the latest elections, at stake is not only the future of the country’s social model, but also the leadership of the country’s left....
Macron and absolute responsibility
If there were one word to characterise these elections, it was crafted by Melenchon and is “dégagisme”, or cleaning-out. ...
The Roots of Social Europe’s Weakness
The authors of this thought-provoking volume explore the roots of social Europe’s problems and sketch some recipes for its renaissance. ...
Towards a “More Perfect Union”?
In this volume, Federico Fabbrini proposes interesting and well-argued—if partly debatable—solutions to the institutional paradoxes of the post-crisis European Union. ...
Whither European unionism?
The recent congress of the European Trade Union Confederation closed a four-year cycle during which the union movement faced the worsening of the economic crisis, the reinforcement of austerity polici...
Ideas Monitor #19/2017
This week's IM focuses on the meeting between Macron and Merkel and the possible future reforms for the EU....
Political Briefing #66/2016
“Brexit means Brexit, and we are going to make a success of it” (Theresa May, British Prime Minister)...
Moving towards a fiscal capacity for the euro area
The implementation of a strengthened fiscal capacity for the Eurozone should proceed by taking into account all its political and economic implications....
Debunking the German illusion
Fratzscher’s book provides readers with an excellent picture of the dynamics of the German political debate, and a unique contribution to it. ...
Ideas Monitor #11/2017
In this week’s IM: the Franco-German engine rebooted and the future of populism from Netherlands to France....
A political shock to exit Europe’s impasse
Claus Offe provides a rare and encouraging account of what kind of political agency the European Union needs to break free from its self-inflicted troubles....
The European Semester and the social partners: Any chance of friendship?
The European Semester gives European institutions the power to intervene in national labour and social reforms. Although some countries include social partners in the new policymaking process, a recen...
