ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. 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
- 2. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration
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- ... 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
- 3. An Inconvenient truth: the narrow trade-off between Equity and Climate Security
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- 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
- 4. 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
- 5. EU law and inter se agreements in defence matters: Mapping the interplay
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- ... 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
- 6. Earmarking grants in a federal polity
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- ... 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
- 7. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
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- 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
- 8. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries
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- 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
- 9. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership
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- 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
- 10. 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
- 11. The EU-Member State Relationship as a Principal-Agent Problem
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- 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
- 12. Ethical Guidelines
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- ... Authors: When submitting a paper authors should provide all relevant pieces of information requested by the submission policy. Providing fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical ...
- Created on 02 July 2021
- 13. Editorial Board
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- ... aims at publishing high quality papers at the forefront of the study of federalism in different disciplinary fields. Interdisciplinary research papers are also very much welcomed. The publication process ...
- Created on 02 July 2021
- 14. About the journal
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- ... viewpoints as the subject of federalism requires. Papers submitted will undergo a process of double blind review before eventually being accepted for publication. We also welcome special issue proposals. ...
- Created on 02 July 2021
- 15. The future of the EU-ACP relations: possible scenarios after the end of the post-Cotonou negotiations
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- ... issues to be solved during the recently concluded negotiating process. The different proposals on the table to revitalise the partnership are particularly important in this paper: whilst the EU is in principle ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 16. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia
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- ... configuration had achieved such stability in the century before 1991? This paper shows how, once they lost their representation in the Senate, regional actors had few institutional levers at the national ...
- Created on 19 January 2021