Perspectives on Federalism is a free on-line peer-reviewed journal, promoted by the Centre for Studies on Federalism.

1. A New Form of Democratic Oversight in the EU: The Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group for Europol
(Ian Cooper/Essay)

... policy and economic governance. While there are many similarities, the JPSG differs from these others in that it has an explicit mandate to scrutinize, and the target of its scrutiny is a specific EU agency ...

2. Implementing fiscal decentralization in Italy between crisis and austerity: Challenges ahead
(Stefano Piperno/Essay)

... in reaching general government fiscal targets through reduction in central government transfers, new fiscal rules, borrowing and expenditures limits. These restrictions risk to put the fiscal federalism ...

3. European cooperation in counter-terrorism and the case of individual sanctions
(Giulia Gargantini/Essay)

... on the implementation within the European Union of the regime of targeted financial sanctions adopted by the United Nations Security Council. The transposition of these measures within the EU uncovered ...

4. Global Imbalances and the Transition to a Symmetric World Monetary System
(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 ...