External publication
17 November 2020
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.
European semester and fiscal rules
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External publication
14 October 2020
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
External publication
12 October 2020
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
Comment
23 July 2019
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
Working paper
25 April 2019
What drives national implementation of EU policy recommendations?
The authors use a newly-compiled dataset to investigate whether and why European Union countries implement the economic policy recommendations they re
Blog post
26 February 2019
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,
Policy brief
13 June 2018
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
Blog post
15 June 2016
Implementation of European Semester recommendations worsens further
Economic policy coordination in the EU hardly works: the initially modest implementation has worsened further.
Blog post
18 November 2015
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
Policy brief
12 November 2015
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