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Fiscal Federalism Policy in Somalia: Emerging Challenges and Agenda for Reform
(Najibullah Nor Isak and Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali/Essay)
(Najibullah Nor Isak and Ali Yassin Sheikh Ali/Essay)
This paper examines the development of fiscal federalism in Somalia to reveal the challenges this unique country is facing and, based on the findings, propose and agenda for reform. Interviews, direct ...
... European federation that was proposed in the 18th century by the Abbé de Saint-Pierre. The ‘peace project’ that he outlined generated many objections from philosophers including Rousseau, Kant and Voltaire. ...
... the 40th anniversary of the direct elections to the European Parliament and a balance of this experience appears to be in order. Against this background, this article proposes both a reflection on the ...
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The commons: an innovative basis for transnational environmental law in the era of Anthropocene? The case of Latin America
(Domenico Giannino and Antonio Manzoni/Essay)
(Domenico Giannino and Antonio Manzoni/Essay)
... basis for this innovative case law. Lastly (Par. 5), we will consider two theoretical objections, that can legitimately arise, and how we propose to overcome them. ...
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Transnational Parliamentarism and the Dynamics of the IPC CFSP/CSDP: Policy-making, Accountability and Cooperation
(Kolja Raube and Daan Fonck/Essay)
(Kolja Raube and Daan Fonck/Essay)
This contribution proposes a framework of transnational parliamentarism to study inter-parliamentary cooperation, and applies it to the interparliamentary conference on CFSP/CSDP. It asks to what extent ...
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A Federal Turn? The European Union's Response to Constitutional Crises in the Member States
(Matteo Bonelli/Essay)
(Matteo Bonelli/Essay)
... legitimacy of the EU constitutional order and its smooth functioning are under threat, but the EU lacks instruments of direct enforcement and coercion. Several authors have therefore proposed to ‘federalize’ ...
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The impossible constitutional reconciliation of the BVerfG and the ECJ in the OMT case. A legal analysis of the first preliminary referral of the BVerfG
(Francesco Pennesi/Note)
(Francesco Pennesi/Note)
... of the ECB proposed by the two Supreme Courts in their case-law, and will explain why the legality of the ECB’s activity will be re-examined in the near future. ...
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Conventional Direction to Unconventional Measures: Using Quantitative Easing to shape Eurozone Fiscal Capacity
(Olimpia Fontana and Simone Vannuccini/Essay)
(Olimpia Fontana and Simone Vannuccini/Essay)
... EZ economic policy by suggesting a ‘conventional’ direction to the unconventional Quantitative Easing (QE) policy of the European Central Bank (ECB). We propose an evolution for QE to tackle the shortcomings ...
... system and proposes the methodology of its evaluation. ...
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Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That: Anti-social Behaviour, Vagueness and Judicial Discretion in the United Kingdom
(Eleonora Harris/Essay)
(Eleonora Harris/Essay)
... concerning the scope, efficacy, and legitimacy of measures dealing with anti-social behaviour. This paper proposes to analyse the difficult balance between protecting communities and social groups, on ...
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Early warning and regional parliaments: in search of a new model. Suggestions from the Basque experience
(Josu Osés Abando/Essay)
(Josu Osés Abando/Essay)
... The author proposes a step-by-step approach to making a selection of all the initiatives expressed in the yearly legislative program of the European Commission, with a focus on analysing the procedure ...
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Federalism, the subnational constitutional framework and local government: Accommodating minorities within minorities
(Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha/Essay)
(Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha/Essay)
... to the challenges of minorities within minorities. This article proposes the adoption of constitutional principles that would guide ethnically plural subnational units in their dealing with internal minorities. ...
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Federalism, Fiscal Federalism and Health Federalism: Standard Costs in Legislative Decree No. 68 of May 6th, 2011
(Giorgio Grasso/Essay)
(Giorgio Grasso/Essay)
... of calculation employed by Legislative Decree No. 68/2011, are highlighted, leading us to propose some minor amendments to the text of the Decree ...
... has been reconceived over the years, we decided to propose a multidisciplinary itinerary where scholars interested in political and legal theory, EU, international and constitutional law produced a contribution ...
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Closer to the citizens? European constitutional processes, communication policy and publicity
(Giulio Itzcovich/Essay)
(Giulio Itzcovich/Essay)
This essay proposes that the emergence and failure of the debate on the EU constitutional reform depends, amongst other things, on the rise of what it calls ‘publicity’ as public policy and governance ...
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Federalism Theory and Neo-Functionalism: Elements for an analytical framework
(Søren Dosenrode/Essay)
(Søren Dosenrode/Essay)
The purpose of this article is to propose a draft for an analytical frame for analyzing regional integration consisting of federalism theory and neo-functionalism. It starts out discussing the concept ...
The debate on federalism in Iraq is interrelated with the identity conflict which has dominated Iraqi politics since the regime change in 2003. Federalism was proposed and became constitutional in 2005 ...
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Global Imbalances and the Transition to a Symmetric World Monetary System
(Riccardo Fiorentini/Essay)
(Riccardo Fiorentini/Essay)
... model with a WCB. Two urgent reforms are proposed: the adoption of a global monetary target for the industrialised countries and This article investigates some of the causes of the financial crisis – global ...
... to speak, on equal terms, with the other continental powers. In this essay, it is suggested that the EU should propose to build a “world eco-monetary union” – reforming the IMF in order to substitute the ...
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From the Constitution for Europe to the Reform Treaty: a literature survey on European Constitutional Law
(Giuseppe Martinico/Review article)
(Giuseppe Martinico/Review article)
... of this review article: 1. The Constitution for Europe and the constitutional moment; 2. The Constitutional Treaty and the innovations “proposed”; 3. The European Court of Justice’s activism; 4. The ...