Armin Steinbach

Rethinking the governance and funding of European rearmament

The Governance and Funding of European Rearmament

Bigger, better funded and focused on public goods: how to revamp the European Union budget

Boosting EU budget revenues with a defence spending shortfall levy

The European Union’s defence spending laggards could be asked to pay more into the common budget

Intra-Western Balkans dynamics: stocktaking and ways ahead

This paper explores the barriers to, and prospects for, deeper intra-Western Balkan economic relationships

Germany’s budget vs the EU: clash coming?

Germany has amended its constitutional debt brake to free up room for much needed defence investments. How does this align with EU law?

Will EU fiscal rules prevent Germany from using its new national borrowing space?

Germany's fiscal rules dilemma

Without further reform, European Union fiscal rules could stop Germany from using the new fiscal space it has freed up for itself

Das Milliardenpaket von Merz könnte als Papiertiger enden

The proposed European Defence Mechanism: questions and answers

Answering ten questions on the proposed EDM

The governance and funding of European rearmament

Europe must accelerate rearmament through deeper cooperation and innovative governance to counter Russia’s aggression and shifting US policies

G7’s Ukraine loan is at risk

Financing European air defence through European Union debt

In this paper, we propose the creation of an EU funding mechanism to internalise the positive externalities provided by national air-defence systems

Memo to the commissioner responsible for the European Union budget

Debt financing European air defence

A case can be made for financing European air defence through issuance of EU debt

How to harvest the windfall profits from Russian assets in Europe

The challenge still remains of crafting a syndicated loan for Ukraine backed by G7 members that strikes a fair deal on burden sharing

A conceptual framework for the identification and governance of European public goods

How to find institutional arrangements for public-good provision, to maximise the benefits of public goods for EU members?

Stay away from Russian money

The EU would shoot itself in the foot by confiscating Russian assets and giving them to Ukraine

The rocky road to EU accession for Western Balkan countries: obstacles and lessons from the Eastern Partnership

The three eastern European states had practically no waiting time before being accepted as candidate countries right after application

How can the EU issue debt to finance EU public goods?