Title:International Trade Observatory (ITO): Trade Roundtable
Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; HORN, Henrik; MESSERLIN, Patrick; PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich; SAPIR, AndréDate:2011Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:The Doha round is going through tough times and at this stage it is impossible to predict its outcome. This is the central message coming from the meeting held on February 4, 2011 at EUI (RSCAS). For reasons having to do ...
Title:Is There a Legal Duty to Address World Poverty?
Author(s):SALOMON, Margot E.Date:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:States are reticent to support the idea that they have human rights obligations to people other than their own. However decades of United Nations consideration and human rights standard-setting in the area of international ...
Title:Islamic Finance in Europe
Author(s):WILSON, RodneyDate:2007Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:Islam all too often resonates negatively in Europe, with a great part of non-Muslim public opinion uncomfortable with Islamic culture and values. Secular and Christian opinion is at best suspicious of shariah, Islamic law, ...
Title:The Macroeconomic and Financial Landscape in the Aftermath of the 2007 Crisis: New Challenges and Perspectives
Author(s):CARLETTI, Elena; CORSETTI, Giancarlo; SIMONELLI, Saverio; COOLEY, Thomas F.; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; JAMES, Harold; GRAY, Joanna; O'CALLAGHAN,Patrick; ALLEN, Franklin; GUISO, LuigiDate:2011Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:The paper by Thomas Cooley (New York University) discusses the challenges for the
European Central Bank in the current situation both in terms of long term fiscal adjustments
and of potential fragility of the European ...
Title:Mercosur as a Regional and Global Protagonist
Author(s):PEÑA, FélixDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:Developing a climate of mutual trust and promoting a renewed regional integration, especially one that enables to connect the economic systems and encourage the proliferation of transnational production chains, are two ...
Title:A New Governance for the European Union and the Euro: Democracy and justice
Author(s):POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis MiguelDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:The report provides a democratic explanation for the crisis and the EU’s failure in successfully addressing it so far. It argues that the solution to the crisis and the future of EU governance must depart from a renewed ...
Title:A Public Choice View of IP(rizes)
Author(s):LEVMORE, SaulDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:Interest groups have played an important if unappreciated role in shaping intellectual property rights. As economies are driven by ideas, rather than manufactured goods, there is likely to be a reconfiguration of the ...
Title:Quelle Charte Constitutionnelle pour l'Union Européenne : Stratégies et options pour renforcer le caractère constitutionnel des traités
Author(s):Centre Robert Schuman, Institut Universitaire Européen; Robert Schuman Centre, European University InstituteDate:1999Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:TREATYAbstract:L'Union européenne a-t-elle besoin d'une Constitution? Le concept de Constitution est intimement lié à la création d'un État. Or, sans même devoir reprendre ici l'éternelle controverse sur la nature de la Communauté ou de ...
Title:Rescue at Sea: Human Rights obligations of states and private actors, with a focus on the EU’s external borders
Author(s):SCHEININ, MartinDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:This Policy Paper results from a lecture delivered as part of the Executive Seminar on global governance and transnational human rights obligations, convened at the European University Institute in late November 2011. The ...