ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Independence in the European Union
- (Essay)
- ... regions, first and foremost the right to secede based on the principle of self-determination of peoples. It finishes by discussing the legal paths for the transformation of substate regions into Member ...
- Created on 21 March 2024
- 2. The ever-recurring salience of asymmetric federalism
- (Editorial)
- As I write these lines, discussions about asymmetric regionalism are at the top of the political agenda in Italy. Towards the end of the 17th parliamentary term, in 2017, the regional governments ...
- Created on 02 May 2023
- 3. EU for Africa: Revitalizing the Role of the SDR
- (Editorial)
- ... born in 1969, shortly before the Bretton Woods regime collapsed, in August 1971. The birth of the SDRs was the result of long and tiring discussions between central bankers and leading international experts, ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 4. Earmarking grants in a federal polity
- (Essay)
- ... governments in federalist countries claim that earmarked resources can better achieve policy goals. This discussion paper evaluates the goal attainments in a billion-worth program for higher education ...
- Created on 21 November 2022
- 5. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries
- (Essay)
- ... The paper discusses how to overcome current legal challenges to facilitate the reallocation of the SDRs held by Euro area countries to an ambitious Next Generation Africa plan. Paper originally published ...
- Created on 08 November 2022
- 6. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership
- (Essay)
- ... on the financing needs of the African continent’s basic infrastructure. Other long-term dimensions of a strategic partnership with Africa are also discussed. The paper strongly confirms the need and opportunity, ...
- Created on 04 November 2022
- 7. Subnational Courts of Last Resort in Germany and the USA
- (Essay)
- ... judcial review. If we discuss constitutional adjudication and high courts in federal systems, we must take the subnational level into account. Without giving this level its due credit, we are unable ...
- Created on 28 September 2021
- 8. The future of the EU-ACP relations: possible scenarios after the end of the post-Cotonou negotiations
- (Essay)
- This article provides an analysis of the recent negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the representatives of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) for the signature of a ...
- Created on 21 January 2021