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1. Paris: Epitome or Blind Spot of the Constitutional Identity of France?: (Essay); ... of the country. The paper is organised around two main axes: first, the specific features of the legal status of Paris within the French legal order, and second, how this contributes to shaping the constitutional ...; Created on 27 June 2025
2. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity: (Essay); Ylenia Maria Citino This paper explores the evolution of the constitutional status of Rome within Italy’s legal and political framework, arguing that the city’s symbolic and functional significance ...; Created on 26 June 2025
3. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); Giovanni Boggero This paper examines the dual role of European capital cities as both symbols of national sovereignty and autonomous local government units. Despite their increasing prominence in ...; Created on 26 June 2025
4. Blockchain Technology in Parliamentary Voting Procedures: (Note); Ylenia Maria Citino Covid-19 pandemics showed us that the functionality of in-person assemblies can be severely challenged by health restrictions. This paper aims to study the feasibility and constitutional ...; Created on 28 November 2024
5. New Caledonia: a Promising Attempt to Constitutionalize a Sovereignty Conflict Going Wrong: (Essay); Elisabeth Alber New Caledonia is a French autonomous territory in the South Pacific whose constitutional status is designed to be transitional. It derives from the 1998 Nouméa Agreement, based ...; Created on 01 August 2024
6. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts: (Essay); ... from that, the paper provides for a nuanced account of the relationship between the two concepts by developing its argument in three steps. First, it defines the two concepts and highlights that secession ...; Created on 31 July 2024
7. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms: (Essay); Alice Valdeslici The paper endeavors to revise and reframe the traditional categories established in the studies on fiscal federalism. It does so by embracing a comparative constitutional law viewpoint ...; Created on 25 July 2024
8. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review: (Essay); ... This paper therefore examines how crises mitigating measures and multilevel governance contexts impact political trust. We study this question by means of a systematic literature review of 48 papers searched ...; Created on 11 June 2024
9. Loyalty references in the Statutes of Autonomy in Spain: legal or symbolic value?: (Essay); ... system such as solidarity, collaboration, and its specific manifestations (cooperation, coordination, and mutual aid). This paper examines the various manifestations of this principle in the Statutes ...; Created on 30 April 2024
10. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions: (Essay); ... countries of the world, sub-national constitutional law and its importance in the constitutional order are being (re)discovered. The main aim of this paper is to study the delimitation of the sub-national ...; Created on 12 March 2024
11. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration: (Essay); ... case study of the deteriorating Hungary-EU relationship this paper focuses on the conceptual explanation for the measures taken by the Union in response to the decline of democracy in Hungary and Hungary’s ...; Created on 22 January 2024
12. An Inconvenient truth: the narrow trade-off between Equity and Climate Security: (Essay); This paper explores the narrow trade-off between climate mitigation policy, growth and income inequality, by examining the empirical evidence on the equity-pollution dilemma faced by policymakers when ...; Created on 17 October 2023
13. 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
14. EU law and inter se agreements in defence matters: Mapping the interplay: (Essay); ... measures adopted in the CSDP framework. The paper maps the relevant practice, with a focus on command and control structures, and examines the relationship between these forms of cooperation and EU law. ...; Created on 30 May 2023
15. 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
16. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent: (Essay); This paper forms part of a broader debate on alternative uses of SDRs following the recent General Allocation of August 2021. We intend to highlight the fundamental aspects that a potential reallocation ...; Created on 09 November 2022
17. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries: (Essay); The paper describes the main features of the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the international reserve asset issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). After the historic allocation of SDRs equivalent ...; Created on 08 November 2022
18. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership: (Essay); This paper contributes from an economic point of view to the idea of a Next Generation Africa financed by the EU’s allocation of SDRs. The first part considers the macroeconomic framework for African ...; Created on 04 November 2022
19. Time for a Next Generation Africa: (Essay); ... disequilibria. This paper re-examines the main proposals put forward in the last few months, and suggests that a different direction should be taken, at least in Europe. Given the strategic relevance ...; Created on 03 November 2022
20. 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

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