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Après-guerre, la croissance économique a entraîné une prospérité généralisée. Elle a contribué à l’élévation du niveau de vie, à la réduction de la pauvreté et à l’augmentation des recettes fiscales, qui ont permis de financer les politiques publiques. Cependant, de plus en plus de critiques se sont élevées contre focalisation sur la croissance, car négligeant les effets sociaux et environnementaux négatifs. Le débat sur le dépassement de la notion de croissance vise à articuler l’élaboration des ...

This study examines how contemporary welfare state policies address the issues of inequality and poverty both between and within EU Member States. It combines quantitative and qualitative analysis to show the strong links between inequality and poverty, not only in statistical terms, but also in terms of wealth distribution, intergenerational mobility and labour market dynamics. Welfare states are discussed in a multidimensional way, covering traditional welfare state policies on social protection ...

Le règlement (UE) no 650/2012 régit les successions ouvertes depuis le 17 août 2015, date de son entrée en application. Très vite, la pratique des 200.000 personnes travaillant pour le notariat en Europe s'est trouvée confrontée à ces nouvelles règles et il semble pouvoir déjà être affirmé que le règlement a pour l'essentiel atteint l'objectif de sécurité juridique, de prévisibilité et de simplification qui lui était assigné. Ceci est sans aucun doute vrai du point de vue du droit international ...

This briefing, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs, provides an assessment of the state of implementation of the EU Regulation on cross-border succession with a view to determining whether it is fulfilling its goal of ensuring legal certainty, predictability and simplification for citizens. It focusses, in particular, on the provisions on public policy’s exception, universal application, renvoi and on the European Certificate ...

This paper assesses the treatment of education and culture in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The CETA marked (for the EU) significant changes in negotiating modalities in the fields of services and investment, involving a shift in the manner in which the Parties undertake negotiated market opening commitments under the Treaty (from a GATS-type hybrid list to a negative list approach). Notwithstanding such changes, both Canada and the European Union have secured ...

This study gives an overview of the situation of the VC industry in the EU, its perspectives for and barriers to further development. In addition, suggestions for policy initiatives that may help to diminish these barriers are provided.

This paper surveys the history of European Lobbying and recent empirical studies on current practice. It presents some key results on the structure, methods and stra-tegies of professional interest representation in Brussels. The briefing also comments on the Commission's European Transparency Initiative, underlining the need to create a single mandatory registry at the Commission and the European Parliament. An inter-institutional approach would reduce the opportunities for lobbyists to venue-shop ...