European semester

The link between the European Semester and the next EU budget

Zsolt Darvas

Is EU tax advice steering reform, or just tracking political moods?

Roel Dom

Shifting priorities, slow progress: an analysis of EU tax recommendations

EU tax advice has broadened to new objectives, yet uneven implementation highlights the limits of soft coordination

Roel Dom, Costanza Greppi Maturana and Pascal Saint-Amans

The European Union’s new fiscal framework: a good start, but challenges loom

Nicolas Boivin and Zsolt Darvas

The implications of the European Union’s new fiscal rules

This policy brief summarises the main features of the new European Union fiscal framework

Zsolt Darvas, Lennard Welslau and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

The benefits of bringing the Western Balkans into the European Semester

Integrating the Western Balkan countries into the European Union’s European Semester process is both feasible and desirable.

Zsolt Darvas

Is the EU fiscal rules reform going in the right direction?

Reviewing the European Commission’s proposal for reforming the Stability and Growth Pact.

Grégory Claeys, Zsolt Darvas, Maria Demertzis and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

New life for an old framework: redesigning the European Union's expenditure and golden fiscal rules

Testimony before the European Parliament on the subject of EU fiscal policies.

Zsolt Darvas

New life for an old framework: redesigning the European Union's expenditure and golden fiscal rules

This briefing paper focuses on two aspects of the EU fiscal framework: whether an expenditure rule would be more reliable than a structural budget bal

Zsolt Darvas and Julia Anderson

What role for the European Semester in the recovery plan?

In this paper, the author looks at the implications arising from the focus of the Recovery and Resilience Plans in the context of the European Semeste

Thomas Wieser

EU policy recommendations: A stronger legal framework is not enough to foster national compliance

In 2011, the EU introduced stricter rules to monitor the implementation of country-specific policy recommendations. Using a new dataset, this column i

Guntram B. Wolff and Konstantinos Efstathiou

What to look out for in the latest European Semester package

Implementation of the European Commission’s country-specific policy recommendations (CSRs) is at a low rate overall. Whether this trend has continued,

Guntram B. Wolff and Konstantinos Efstathiou

Is the European Semester effective and useful?

The authors study whether and to what extent EU countries implement recommendations on macroeconomic imbalances given by the EU in the so-called Europ

Guntram B. Wolff and Konstantinos Efstathiou

Implementation of European Semester recommendations worsens further

Economic policy coordination in the EU hardly works: the initially modest implementation has worsened further.

Zsolt Darvas and Alvaro Leandro

Naughty students or the wrong school: why is the European Semester proving ineffective?

The fundamental problem of economic policy coordination in the EU is that national policymakers are accountable to their national parliaments and focu

Zsolt Darvas and Alvaro Leandro

The limitations of policy coordination in the euro area under the European Semester

This paper assesses economic policy coordination in the euro area under the European Semester. Despite the collective decision to create this new syst

Zsolt Darvas and Alvaro Leandro