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Tag Archives: European Commission
Mar 20 2013
The European Commission is a unique ‘laboratory’ for supranational institution building.
Leave a commentAs Morten Egeberg writes, international organisations are typically composed of representatives with affiliations to the national level. The European Commission, in contrast, is one of the few international institutions in which key actors owe their allegiances to the supranational level. … Continue reading
Posted by: March 20, 2013
Tagged with: EU institutions, European Commission, international organisations
Mar 16 2013
The European Commission must support and stimulate the research and innovation needed to take Europe out of the crisis.
4 CommentsCould the Eurozone crisis and austerity lead to a lost decade for millions of Europe’s citizens? Jonathan Grant and Helen Rebecca Schindler write that in the face of the crisis, Europe must invest in research and innovation. With an annual … Continue reading
Posted by: March 16, 2013
Tagged with: European Commission, innovation
Mar 15 2013
Brussels blog round-up for 9 – 15 March: The European Parliament ponders absinthe, Germany set for a balanced budget, and is the Netherlands heading for an EU referendum?
Leave a commentChris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre and the crisis Lost in EUrope says that the ratings agency Fitch has finally downgraded Italy for its recent electoral choice, by downgrading … Continue reading
Posted by: March 15, 2013
Tagged with: David Cameron, European Commission, European Parliament, Germany, Netherlands, Syria
Feb 13 2013
Five minutes with Marta Andreasen, UKIP MEP for South East England – “UKIP could do more to attract women if they respected the women that they have”
2 CommentsThe United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) gained the second largest share of the UK’s vote in the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. In an interview with EUROPP’s editors, UKIP MEP and former Accountant of the European Commission, Marta Andreasen, discusses the … Continue reading
Posted by: February 13, 2013
Tagged with: European Commission, European elections, euroscepticism, UK, UKIP
Sep 26 2012
An EU-wide supervisory structure is needed to ensure the consistent governance of European financial markets.
Leave a commentEarlier this month, the European Commission proposed that the European Central Bank be entrusted with supervisory powers over the eurozone’s banks. Giuliano G. Castellano argues that this move reaffirms the necessity to establish an EU-wide, or supranational, supervisory structure over … Continue reading
Posted by: September 26, 2012
Tagged with: ECB, European Commission, financial markets
Sep 8 2012
Scrutinizing and improving the European Union’s financial spending – the role of the European Court of Auditors
1 CommentIn an occasional series of blogs, EUROPP will be covering all the main EU institutions, some of which are not so well known. In the first of the series we look at the European Court of Auditors, which was set … Continue reading
Posted by: September 8, 2012
Tagged with: audit, ECA, European Commission, European Court of Auditors, governance
