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Rising to the Populist Challenge: Social Security prescriptions for the Italian Welfare State
(Davide Orsitto/Essay)
(Davide Orsitto/Essay)
... social security data from 1980 to 2015 for Italy’s pensions, unemployment and sickness benefits. The results are plotted against key watershed reforms of the Italian Welfare State and confirm a decrease ...
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Are You Ready for That? The Next European Elections as a Crucial Moment in the History of the EU
(Giuseppe Martinico/Editorial)
(Giuseppe Martinico/Editorial)
... law we have enjoyed new rights which we can now claim before national judges. In this sense, although it does not benefit from the kind of legitimacy that national democracies normally have, it for sure ...
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The Contribution of COSAC to Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny in the EU: A Practitioner’s View
(Bruno A. Dias Pinheiro/Essay)
(Bruno A. Dias Pinheiro/Essay)
... if NPs are benefiting from COSAC or are they, on the contrary, lagging behind and lost amidst so many interparliamentary meetings? It is argued that COSAC occupies a key role in the multipolarised system ...
The paper focuses on Canadian Provinces’ role in migrant selection. After an asymmetric approach, that benefited only Quebec, the federal government granted devolutionary powers in migrant selection to ...
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Administration or Federation? Constitutional Self-Image and the World Political Order in Which the EU Finds Itself
(Ming-Sung Kuo/Essay)
(Ming-Sung Kuo/Essay)
... in times of crisis. Freed from the value-laden concept of constitutional identity, but without de-constitutionalizing itself, the EU can have the benefits of both the constitutional and administrative ...
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Some considerations on the relationship between economic and social cohesion and implementation of the cohesion policy
(Małgorzata Dziembała/Essay)
(Małgorzata Dziembała/Essay)
... to lifting the level of socio-economic development, improving the quality of life of residents, and also solving emerging problems, including social ones, so that the benefits of growth spread evenly across ...
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Macroeconomic Imbalances in the Euro Area and Policy Intervention: the Role of Trade with Emerging Economies
(Piero Esposito/Essay)
(Piero Esposito/Essay)
The aim of this paper is to evidence the benefits of a coordinated and symmetrical policy approach in the reduction of macroeconomic imbalances among Eurozone countries by analysing the exploitation of ...
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Protection of EU citizens abroad: A legal assessment of the EU citizen’s right to consular and diplomatic protection
(Madalina Bianca Moraru/Essay)
(Madalina Bianca Moraru/Essay)
... protection of their nationals located in the affected areas. The present paper addresses the question of whether the EU citizenship confers to the citizens of the Member States real benefits when they ...
... benefitted from the opportunities of European integration, there is still much to do in terms of institutional capacity, especially due to the overly complex system of intergovernmental relations ...
... benefitted from the opportunities of European integration, there is still much to do in terms of institutional capacity, especially due to the overly complex system of intergovernmental relations ...
... benefitted from the opportunities of European integration, there is still much to do in terms of institutional capacity, especially due to the overly complex system of intergovernmental relations ...