In December 2005 the Council has agreed on a new financial perspective for the Community for the years 2007-13. At the same time, a far reaching review of community finances was decided. With this background this…
The vital importance of maritime transport has already been recognised in the White Paper of the European Commission on European transport policy as well as in the Community guidelines on State aid to maritime…
The European Union´s economic policy objectives can be summarizes below the headings of "Lisbon" and "Maastricht". While the Lisbon objectives are related to the increase of potential growth in Europe, the…
The project "public debt monitor" aims at a regular monitoring of fiscal sustainability in Germany, both at the state level (including social security) and the federal level (including municipalities). Using a…
The EU enlargement with ten new Member States considerably widens the Internal Market and opens it to participants with very different levels of economic development. In this context, this study analyses the…
In its study from 2001 the European Commission highlighted the main tax obstacles to cross border business activities in the European Union which hamper companies from exploiting the full benefits of the…
The falling labour input is among the factors responsible fort the low German growth path lagging behind the growth experience in many other industrial countries. It is the objective of this project to look into…
In Germany and other EU countries it occurs that reforms which are regarded by many experts as wealth augmenting are not necessarily accepted by voters.The project looks into these phenomena of reform resistance…
stakeholders in the sectors with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the sectoral innovation performance and challenges across the EU25 states. The fundamental question is to what extend and why…