ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. The European Union as a Form of ‘Functional Federalism’
- (Essay)
- Giuseppe Martinico In this contribution, I shall explore the concept of ‘functional federalism’ as developed by Peter Hay in his book Federalism and Supranational Organizations: Patterns for New ...
- Created on 29 July 2024
- 2. Independence in the European Union
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- ... Scotland or the Basque Country. After tracing this telos to the federal nature of the European Union, this essay analyses the legal arguments which support the claim to political independence of those ...
- Created on 21 March 2024
- 3. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration
- (Essay)
- ... identity, and furthermore by the unorthodox action it has taken against the Union’s federal policy of closing ranks in the face of the Russian-Ukrainian state of war, the Hungarian government, which achieved ...
- Created on 22 January 2024
- 4. Comparing fiscalisations: a review of Fiscal Unions by Tomasz Woźniakowski
- (Review articles)
- A review of Fiscal Unions: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States by Tomasz P. Woźniakowski (OUP 2022). Download pdf
- Created on 05 October 2023
- 5. The Role of the European Union in Secessionist Conflicts
- (Essay)
- Secession in a EU context analysed from a multilevel governance unravels that there is in fact room EU interference in secessionist conflicts. Nevertheless, a balance should be struck between such commitment ...
- Created on 20 September 2021
- 6. The Robert Triffin Plan and the New Bretton Woods
- (Essay)
- Guido Montani This essay investigates how the International Clearing Union proposed by Keynes at Bretton Woods was incorporate by Robert Triffin into the three crucial projects during his intense ...
- Created on 24 October 2024
- 7. Nurturing Integration through Dialogue: The Role of Courts in Supranational Contexts
- (Essay)
- Allan F. Tatham Taking the Court of Justice of the European Union (especially its procedure of the reference for a preliminary ruling) as providing a suitable model to emulate for courts of other ...
- Created on 25 July 2024
- 8. What Can Asymmetric Federalism and Differentiation in EU Law Learn From Each Other? Asymmetric Federalism as an Explanatory Model for Differentiation in EU Law
- (Essay)
- Marjan Kos The article applies the concept of asymmetric federalism to differentiation in European Union (EU) law. By doing this, it brings together two strands of literature that share many similarities ...
- Created on 23 July 2024
- 9. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective
- (Essay)
- ... in India in 2019 by the Union government and its judicial approval in 2023 has been very challenging to Indian federalism. Since the States in India are based mostly on some ethnic identity, any attack ...
- Created on 22 July 2024
- 10. Federalism and institutional structure
- (Editorial)
- ... European Union, the European Parliament election in June 2024 marked the beginning of the 2024-2029 institutional cycle. The results of the latest European election are not easy to decipher. On the one ...
- Created on 22 March 2024
- 11. Indefinite detention of refugees ruled unconstitutional by the High Court of Australia – an opportunity for Europe to pause for thought?
- (Notes)
- Jock Gardiner and Silvia Talavera Lodos The High Court of Australia recently handed down the landmark decision of NZYQ, ruling the policy of indefinitely detaining non-citizen, non-visa holders ...
- Created on 05 March 2024
- 12. Digitalising Agricultural and Food Systems: policy challenges and actions for the sustainable transition in the EU
- (Essay)
- ... sustainable agri-food systems. The paper aims to analyse the recent European Union policy agenda concerning digitalisation and the adoption of digital technologies in agriculture and food systems to promote ...
- Created on 08 September 2023
- 13. EU for Africa: Revitalizing the Role of the SDR
- (Editorial)
- A long time has passed since the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) were first conceived as an instrument to supplement the dollar as a provider of international liquidity: the first SDRs were officially ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 14. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
- (Essay)
- ... of the project “For a European Union - African Union Plan on the New Allocation of the IMF’s SDRs” (with Professor Fabio Masini as principal investigator), coordinated by the Centro Studi sul Federalismo ...
- Created on 09 November 2022
- 15. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries
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- ... in February 2022 and prepared within the initiatives of the project “For a European Union - African Union Plan on the New Allocation of the IMF’s SDRs” (with Professor Fabio Masini as principal investigator), ...
- Created on 08 November 2022
- 16. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership
- (Essay)
- ... on both sides of the partnership, for Next Generation Africa. Paper originally published in February 2022 and prepared within the initiatives of the project “For a European Union - African Union Plan ...
- Created on 04 November 2022
- 17. Time for a Next Generation Africa
- (Essay)
- ... scenarios are considered. Paper originally published on November 2021 and prepared within the initiatives of the project “For a European Union - African Union Plan on the New Allocation of the IMF’s ...
- Created on 03 November 2022
- 18. Intellectual Prejudice and Institutional Shortcomings. The Risks for the Next Generation EU
- (Essay)
- Despite the fact that during the pandemic emergency the European Union managed to provide an ambitious and courageous response, in contrast to previous decisions, the intergovernmental method undermines ...
- Created on 04 April 2022
- 19. The EU-Member State Relationship as a Principal-Agent Problem
- (Essay)
- Ever since the European Union came into existence many theories have addressed the state of European integration. This paper tries to offer a further interpretation building on the principal-agent concept. ...
- Created on 21 October 2021
- 20. By Way of Introduction
- (Editorial)
- ... that may turn into an attempt to foster reform of the European Union. This experiment is even more important, as it takes place among the uncertainties about the post-pandemic recovery. In one of the next ...
- Created on 22 September 2021
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