Structural Reforms

Structural Reforms

Structural Reforms

Structural Reforms

3 July 2017

Macron and absolute responsibility

By Patrice de Beer

If there were one word to characterise these elections, it was crafted by Melenchon and is “dégagisme”, or cleaning-out.

20 March 2017

Italy’s Jobs Act in European perspective: The flawed economics of flexibility

By Martin Myant

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.

14 April 2016

Moving towards a fiscal capacity for the euro area

By Eulalia Rubio

The implementation of a strengthened fiscal capacity for the Eurozone should proceed by taking into account all its political and economic implications.

3 March 2016

Spain’s social model in the balance as parties attempt to form a government

By Sofia A. Perez

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.

11 December 2015

Whither European unionism?

By Angie Gago

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 policies and the creation of a new European economic governance.

«The creation of a voluntary supranational citizenship would contribute to solve the tensions generated by intra-EU migration.
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