2024-03-29T12:13:27Zhttp://aei.pitt.edu/cgi/oai2
oai:aei.pitt.edu:27
2011-02-15T22:14:41Z
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Ireland's Economic Transformation: Industrial Policy, European Integration and Social Partnership. Working Paper #2, December 1998
Ireland
industrial policy
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
general
Ireland has been one of the fastest growing economies in the European Union or the OECD in the 1990s. This paper reviews the policy approach which underpins the country's economic transformation, tracing the role of industrial policy, European integration, macroeconomic stabilization and social partnership. Despite the initial success of the outward-looking strategy, a combination of domestic factors and European integration produced a deep economic, social and political crisis in the 1980s. From within this drastic experience, there emerged a new perspective - on the Irish economy and the policy approaches available to a small European member state - shared by the major economic, political and social actors during the past decade. The paper outlines the analytical foundations of the partnership approach and the critique by neo-liberal and orthodox economists. Irish social partnership offers and analytical challenge, since the country does not display the structural or organizational characteristics normally associated with neo-corporatism. By contrast, the self-understanding of Irish social partnership emphasizes deliberation and problem-solving. The Irish story reflects a complex interaction of domestic and international factors. European integration has transformed Ireland's relation to its international environment, and social partnership has transformed its internal ability to mediate interests and adhere to coherent strategies.
1998-12
Working Paper
PeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/27/1/Odonnell.pdf
UNSPECIFIED (1998) Ireland's Economic Transformation: Industrial Policy, European Integration and Social Partnership. Working Paper #2, December 1998. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/27/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:163
2011-02-15T22:14:49Z
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Ireland and the Nice Treaty. ZEI Discussion Paper: 2002, C 115
Doyle, Peter
Ireland
enlargement
European elections/voting behavior
Nice Treaty
[Introduction.] The experience in Ireland of conducting two referenda on the Nice Treaty: Just for the record, let me remind you that the first referendum was held in June 2001, when the result was just under 54% against and just over 46% per cent in favour. The turnout was just under 35%, the second lowest in the history of referenda in Ireland and by far the lowest in referenda related to Europe. In the second referendum, held on October 19 last, there was a dramatic turn-around; 63% said "yes", 37% "no" and 51% of the electorate failed to vote. Those among you who possess agile mathematical minds will be able to work out pretty quickly that the "no" vote changed little between the two referenda; from just over 20% of the vote the first time to around 18% last month. The key to the positive result the second time around, therefore, was the higher turnout, even though half of the electorate stayed away from the polls. Put another way, many voters who are inclined to be well disposed towards the EU and who abstained last year actually turned out this time. You might well wonder why a country which has enjoyed such largesse from the EU’s coffers should appear to be so reluctant to vote in favour of further integration and enable our less-fortunate neighbours in central and eastern Europe to share in the same good fortune. Had the EU not, after all, been a major factor in the creation of the phenomenon which has come to be known as the Celtic Tiger economy.
2002
Discussion Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/163/1/dp_c115_doyle.pdf
Doyle, Peter (2002) Ireland and the Nice Treaty. ZEI Discussion Paper: 2002, C 115. [Discussion Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/163/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:200
2019-12-13T18:06:36Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D46:46303235
7375626A656374733D46:46303035
7375626A656374733D46:46303031
7375626A656374733D46:46303234
7375626A656374733D44:44303035:69646F7067:69646F706768646F63
7375626A656374733D44:44303032:443030326673703139353031393932657063
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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Finis Neutralität? Historische und politische Aspekte im europäischen vergleich: Irland, Finnland, Schweden, Schweiz und Österreich = The End of Neutrality? Historical and political Aspects in European Comparison: Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria. ZEI Discussion Papers: 2001, C 92
Gehler, Michael.
Ireland
common foreign & security policy 1993--European Global Strategy
Finland
Sweden
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
Switzerland
foreign/security policy 1950s-1992 (includes EPC)
Austria
[From the Introduction]. I. Terminologien, Funktionen und Dimensionen. Neutralitäts-Begriffsinhalt und -Recht entstanden Ende des 14. Jh Im 15. Jh. wurden Ausdrücke wie "neutralitet" und "neutralité" erstmals verwendet. Im deutschen Sprachgebrauch taucht das Wort zeitgleich auf. Sein Ursprung ist lateinisch: 'ne uter ' = 'keiner von beiden '. Die Semantik blieb unverändert. Unter Neutralität verstand man im 14. Jh. dasselbe wie im 20. Jh.: Nichtbeteiligung am Krieg zwischen zwei oder mehreren Staaten. Unterschiede in Vorstellung und Erfassung des Inhalts erwuchsen erst durch die völkerrechtliche Begriffsbestimmung, nach der Neutralität die Summe aller Rechte und Pflichten ist, die aus der Nichtbeteiligung am Kriege resultieren. Während der Kerngehalt unverändert blieb, wurde strittig, was zu Rechten und Pflichten zählt. Kontroversen über "militärische", "wirtschaftliche", "moralische", "bewaffnete" oder "wohlwollende" Neutralität folgten. Zu ihren Funktionen und Dimensionen: Politisch bedeutet Neutralität, "keiner Partei anzugehören"; völkerrechtlich, sich zwischen zwei oder mehreren kriegführenden Staaten zu befinden und weder auf der einen noch auf der anderen Seite zu stehen. Dauerhafte Neutralität heißt, außerhalb von Krieg vorwirkend auch selbst in Friedenszeiten hinsichtlich möglicher zukünftiger Konflikte neutral zu sein. Hier ist nur von der äußeren, der politischen im Gegensatz zur inneren oder "theologischen" Neutralität die Rede. Letztere fand im innerstaatlichen Bereich, v.a. im Verhältnis politischer oder staatlicher Gewalt gegenüber gesellschaftlichen Gruppen und Einrichtungen sowie Institutionen (Gewerkschaften, Konfessionen, Kirchen, etc.), Anwendung.
2001
Discussion Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/200/1/dp_c92_gehler.pdf
Gehler, Michael. (2001) Finis Neutralität? Historische und politische Aspekte im europäischen vergleich: Irland, Finnland, Schweden, Schweiz und Österreich = The End of Neutrality? Historical and political Aspects in European Comparison: Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria. ZEI Discussion Papers: 2001, C 92. [Discussion Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/200/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:698
2011-02-15T23:44:13Z
oai:aei.pitt.edu:1476
2011-02-15T22:18:46Z
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National Parliaments on their Ways to Europe. Losers or Latecomers?
Ireland
Belgium
europeanisation/europeanization & European identity
Italy
Denmark
Finland
Amsterdam Treaty
Luxembourg
France
Spain
Netherlands
Germany
European Convention
Sweden
Greece
Nice Treaty
IGC 1996
Portugal
U.K.
IGC 2000
Maastricht Treaty
European Commission
Council of Ministers
European Council
governance: EU & national level
European Parliament
integration theory (see also researching and writing the EU in this section)
Austria
[Table of Contents]. Preface, etc., 15-26; National Parliaments in the European Architecture: From Latecomers' Adaptation Towards Permanent Institutional Change?, by Andreas Maure, 27-76; The Federal Parliament of Belgium: Between Wishes, Rules and Practice, by Claire Vandevivere, 77-98; The Danish Folketing and Its European Affairs Committee: Strong Players in the National Policy Cycle, by Finn Laursen, 99-116; The German Bundestag: From Benevolent 'Weakness' towards Supportive Scrutiny, by Sven Holscheidt, 117-146; The Parliament of Greece: Slow but Constant Moves Toward European Integration?, by Peter Zervakis and Nikos Yannis, 147-172; The Parliament of Finland: A Model Case for Effective Scrutiny?, by Tapio Raunio, 173-198; The Parliament of Spain: Slowly Moving onto the European Direction?, by Felipe Basabe Llorens and Maria Teresa Gonzalez Escudero, 199-222; The French Parliament and the EU: Progressive Assertion and Strategic Investment, by Andrea Szukala and Olivier Rozenberg, 223-250; The Parliament of Ireland: A Passive Adapter Coming in from the Cold, by Brigid Laffan, 251-268; The Parliament of Italy: From Benevolent Observer to Active Player, by Federiga Bindi Calussi and Steffano B. Grassi, 269-300; The Luxemburg Chamber of Deputies: From a Toothless Tiger to a Critical Watchdog?, by Danielle Bossaert, 301-312; The Parliament of Austria: A Large Potential with Little Implications, by Barbara Blumel and Christine Neuhold, 313-336; The Parliament of the Netherlands and the European Union: Early Starter, Slow Mover, by Ben J.S. Hoetjes, 337-358; The Parliament of Portugal: Loyal Scrutiny and Informal Influence, by Ana Fraga, 359-376; The Parliament of Sweden: A Successful Adapter in the European Arena, by Hans Hegeland, 377-394; The Parliament of the United Kingdom: From Supportive Scrutiny to Unleased Control?, by Caitriona A. Carter, 395-424; National Parliaments after Amsterdam: From Slow Adapters to National Players, 425-476; The Reticent Acknowledgement of National Parliaments in the European Treaties: A Documentation, by Astrid Krekelberg, 477-490.
Nomos Verlag
Maurer, Andreas
Wessels, Wolfgang
2001
Book
PeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/1476/1/National_Parliaments_Losers_or_Latecomers.pdf
Maurer, Andreas and Wessels, Wolfgang, eds. (2001) National Parliaments on their Ways to Europe. Losers or Latecomers? Nomos Verlag, p. 521.
http://aei.pitt.edu/1476/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2029
2011-02-15T22:20:56Z
7374617475733D707562
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7375626A656374733D46:46303233
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
7375626A656374733D44:44303031:44303031303330
74797065733D776F726B696E677061706572
The Trade-off Efficiency-Equity as an Explanation of the Mitigated Success of the European Regional Development Policies. University of Illinois EUC Working Paper, Vol. 2, No. 3
Dall'Erba, Sandy.
Portugal
Ireland
regional policy/structural funds
Spain
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the European regional development funds do not allow simultaneous achievement of goals of efficiency and equity when they are dedicated to financing transportation infrastructures. The paper first gives some insights on the origin of regional policies. Then we focus on the degree to which Ireland, Spain and Portugal (but not Greece), the main beneficiaries of regional funds, have been able to move to the European average (in terms of per capita income) since their membership in the EU, which also corresponds to the time when regional assistance was initiated in these countries. Empirical evidence also reveals that income disparities are increasing among regions within each of these countries and this raises the question as to whether the impact of regional funds is or is not rather favorable to this particular convergence pattern, given that one of the primary objectives of regional funding has been to ensure greater cohesion over the whole European territory. The answer comes mainly from the type of infrastructure regional funds finance. Since a significant part of regional funds is devoted to transportation issues, their impact on regional development has to be seen in the light of characteristics of the transport sector and the specific requirements in transport of each individual sector. The paper concludes that transportation infrastructures promote the country’s aggregate growth but cannot be seen as an efficient instrument to reduce interregional disparities in Europe.
2003-05
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2029/1/DALLERBA.pdf
Dall'Erba, Sandy. (2003) The Trade-off Efficiency-Equity as an Explanation of the Mitigated Success of the European Regional Development Policies. University of Illinois EUC Working Paper, Vol. 2, No. 3. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/2029/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2030
2011-02-15T22:20:56Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D46:46303138
7375626A656374733D46:46303233
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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European Regional Development Policies: History and Current Issues. University of Illinois EUC Working Paper Vol. 2, No. 4
Dall'Erba, Sandy.
Ireland
regional policy/structural funds
Spain
Portugal
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the European regional development funds do not allow simultaneous achievement of goals of efficiency and equity when they are dedicated to financing transportation infrastructures. The paper first gives some insights on the history and the nature of regional development funds. Then we focus on the degree to which Ireland, Spain and Portugal (but not Greece), the main beneficiaries of regional policies, have been able to move to the European average (in terms of per capita income) since their membership in the EU, which also corresponds to the time when regional assistance was initiated in these countries. Empirical evidence also reveals that income disparities are increasing among regions within each of these countries and this raises the question as to whether the impact of regional funds is or is not rather favorable to this particular convergence pattern, given that one of the primary objectives of regional funding has been to ensure greater cohesion over the whole European territory. The answer comes mainly from the type of infrastructure regional funds finance. Since a significant part of regional funds is devoted to transportation issues, their impact on regional development has to be seen in the light of characteristics of the transport sector and the specific requirements in transport of each individual sector. The paper concludes that transportation infrastructures promote the country’s aggregate growth but cannot be seen as an efficient instrument to reduce interregional disparities in Europe.
2003-05
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2030/1/dallerba2.pdf
Dall'Erba, Sandy. (2003) European Regional Development Policies: History and Current Issues. University of Illinois EUC Working Paper Vol. 2, No. 4. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/2030/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2061
2011-02-15T22:21:02Z
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"The Patten Report and the light at the end of the tunnel: A comparative study of Anglo-Irish and Anglo-French cross-border policing"
Cannon, Mathew.
U.K.
Ireland
free movement/border control
France
The recent publication of the Patten Report has focused attention on efforts to co-ordinate the policing of the Anglo-Irish border. The report calls for increased cross border policing and mentions Anglo-French police cooperation over the Channel Tunnel as a model for co-operative agreements between the Garda Síochána and the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Co-operation between authorities in the North and South of Ireland already exists, however that co-operation is largely informal, and a more institutionalised approach is called for by the Report. The emergence of meso-level policing in both areas plays an important role in understanding the comparative development of trans-national policing. The paper uses Anglo-Irish and Anglo-French police cooperation in order to create a comparative understanding cross-border policing. Using the model proposed by Benyon (1994), an examination of the levels of cross-border co-operation is made. The paper points towards the development of functional ties related to the emergence of meso-level as a key element in the success of Anglo-French co-ordination. Thus, successful co-operation across the Anglo-Irish border requires a more focused approach to co-ordination, which could create strong formal ties. These ties could then form the basis for the split-over into other areas of co-operation between police departments.
2001
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2061/1/001592_1.pdf
Cannon, Mathew. (2001) "The Patten Report and the light at the end of the tunnel: A comparative study of Anglo-Irish and Anglo-French cross-border policing". In: UNSPECIFIED, Madison, Wisconsin. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/2061/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2341
2011-02-15T22:22:21Z
7374617475733D756E707562
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“The Europeanisation of Political Parties: The Case of the Irish Labour Party”
Moxon-Browne, Edward.
Ireland
europeanisation/europeanization & European identity
political parties
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
This paper considers the “Europeanisation” of the Irish Labour Party between Ireland’s entry into the European Community in 1973 and the early months of 1999. After a short discussion of the meaning of the term “Europeanisation” we place the Labour Party in the context of the Irish party system: the party’s origins, and the nature of its support base, make it distinctive within Ireland, and within the broader family of social democratic parties to which it belongs. The main corpus of the paper examines the Labour Party as an actor in the process of Europeanisation: here the argument is that participation in government compelled the party leadership to realign itself more closely to European policies and assumptions. A discussion of rank and file opinion serves to illustrate the convergence between elite and mass opinion in the party, as well as between Labour and the other parties. Finally, some conclusions are drawn which may have implications for Europeanisation in other party systems as in Ireland.
1999
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2341/1/002324_1.PDF
Moxon-Browne, Edward. (1999) “The Europeanisation of Political Parties: The Case of the Irish Labour Party”. In: UNSPECIFIED, Pittsburgh, PA. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/2341/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2370
2011-02-15T22:22:28Z
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“The Reform of the EU Structural Funds: Administrative Adaptation and the Prospects for Regionalisation in Ireland”
Rees, Nicholas
Farrows, Martyn.
governance: EU & national level
Ireland
regional policy/structural funds
subnational/regional/territorial
The paper is organised around six sections. The first section explores the relationship between European integration and the regional context by considering how and in what ways it is possible to conceptually and theoretically think about this relationship. Following this preliminary discussion the next section examines the impact of European integration, especially the structural funds, on the Irish case. In particular, this is schematically organised around the notions of a variety of constitutional/political, administrative and economic impacts on Ireland. Section three considers the recent negotiations over the structural funds, examines who the players have been and what the negotiations have entailed. The penultimate sections look at Ireland and the negotiations, particularly with a view to understanding the debate over reform within Ireland and the debate amongst the member states and their representatives at the European level. In conclusion, the paper returns to the issue of whether the notion of multi-level governance is useful to understanding the Irish case and whether European integration has significantly impacted below the national level on the sub-national actors and processes in Ireland.
1999
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2370/1/002576_1.PDF
Rees, Nicholas and Farrows, Martyn. (1999) “The Reform of the EU Structural Funds: Administrative Adaptation and the Prospects for Regionalisation in Ireland”. In: UNSPECIFIED, Pittsburgh, PA. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/2370/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2539
2011-02-15T22:22:52Z
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"Effects of the growth of foreign ownership of, and penetration into, UK, Belgian, and Irish economic sectors, 1978-1996"
Breverton, T.D.
U.K.
Ireland
Belgium
business/private economic activity
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
trade policy
EU trade policy operates in a framework which has tended to ignore governmental assistance to non-domestic multinational operations setting up/expanding in EU countries. At the same time, support for indigenous industries is illegal except in extreme, agreed circumstances. This differential policy has allowed certain substantial sectors of nations' economies to become foreign-owned, which can deleteriously affect a nation's ability to fund socio-economic policies. National governments and regions compete to attract non-national companies, while being unable to support domestic companies against this new competition. Along with increased market shares of foreign imports, this displacement of "national" ownership of the economy leads to an important decline in the GNP:GDP ratio, mainly because of transfer pricing and tax avoidance.
1997
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2539/1/002864_1.PDF
Breverton, T.D. (1997) "Effects of the growth of foreign ownership of, and penetration into, UK, Belgian, and Irish economic sectors, 1978-1996". In: UNSPECIFIED, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/2539/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2617
2011-02-15T22:23:14Z
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An Insider's View - Performance Management in the Public Sector: What Can We Learn from the Past? EPIAScope 2002/3
Fitzpatrick, Sean.
Ireland
public policy/public administration
No Abstract.
2002
Article
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2617/1/scop2002_3_6.pdf
Fitzpatrick, Sean. (2002) An Insider's View - Performance Management in the Public Sector: What Can We Learn from the Past? EPIAScope 2002/3. EPIAScope. pp. 21-24.
http://aei.pitt.edu/2617/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2653
2011-02-15T22:23:23Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303035
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"Domestic politics vs. the European Union: Alcohol, abortion, and drug policy"
Kurzer, Paulette.
governance: EU & national level
Ireland
europeanisation/europeanization & European identity
Finland
Netherlands
general
Sweden
public health policy (including global activities)
One of the greatest challenges in the post-Maastricht era is whether national governments of the member states of the European Union (EU) can protect national regulatory regimes, which are clearly at odds with Community law or international intergovernmental agreements. How do chief government executives balance the trends toward convergence with their belief that certain areas of government activities are unsuitable for Europeanization or deeper collaboration? My answer will be based upon the examples of abortion policy in Ireland, drug policy in the Netherlands, and alcohol control policy in Finland and Sweden, that national officials face an incredibly difficult task if they seek to shelter sensitive policy areas from European integration. They rely extensively on complicated diplomatic formulas to preserve domestic regulatory regimes, with however, mixed results. One solution is to create different ‘pillars’ (the way in which the Treaty of European Union is designed) in order to place sensitive domains of national sovereignty out of the jurisdiction of Community law and European actors. How do governments of these member states shelter areas of national importance that are exposed to Community law and supranational authority? Moreover, even in the intergovernmental pillars of the EU, cooperation is recommended and mandated for areas that individual national governments do not consider an appropriate field of activity for greater European collaboration and harmonization.
1997
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2653/1/002560_1.pdf
Kurzer, Paulette. (1997) "Domestic politics vs. the European Union: Alcohol, abortion, and drug policy". In: UNSPECIFIED, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/2653/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2657
2011-02-15T22:23:24Z
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"The EU ‘neutrals,’ the CFSP and defence policy"
Laursen, Finn.
Ireland
common foreign & security policy 1993--European Global Strategy
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
U.K.
WEU
NATO
Austria
The European Union (EU) is trying to develop a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). According to the Treaty on European Union (TEU), or Maastricht Treaty, the CFSP "shall include all questions related to the security of the Union, including the eventual framing of a common defence policy, which might in time lead to a common defence" (art. J. 4). The purpose of this paper is to study this defence dimension of the EU, in particular the attitudes of the EU’s ‘neutral’ member states. When the TEU was negotiated there was one ‘neutral’ state, viz. Ireland. But the latest enlargement added three ‘neutral’ member states, viz. Austria, Finland, and Sweden. These ‘neutral’ countries are neither members of NATO nor the Western European Union (WEU). Further, at least two other member states which are members of NATO, the UK and Denmark, have been skeptical about developing the EU’s defence dimension. While the UK is a member of the WEU, Denmark is not. Both have been ‘minimalists’ in respect to the EU’s defence dimension, emphasising the primacy of NATO.
1997
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2657/1/002557_1.pdf
Laursen, Finn. (1997) "The EU ‘neutrals,’ the CFSP and defence policy". In: UNSPECIFIED, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/2657/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2843
2011-02-15T22:24:11Z
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"Employment programs in Ireland 1987-1999: National, sub-national and supra -national governance in a globalized political economy"
Boyle, Nigel.
Ireland
international economy
globalisation/globalization
employment/unemployment
subnational/regional/territorial
This paper examines how sovereignty is being reconfigured in the Irish political economy. The constitutive features of the "Celtic Tiger" are characterized as: (a) a strategically "competitive nationalism" focused on maximizing foreign direct investment, (b) a simultaneously internationalized and localized domestic governance regime centered on a European model of "competitive social partnership," and (c) a "flexible developmental state" that enjoyed "embedded autonomy." The conventional explanation of the Celtic Tiger focuses on the alliance between an insulated, technocratic state agency, the Industrial Development Authority, and multinational corporations. This paper examines the role of FAS, the Irish Training and Employment Authority, the agency responsible for active labor market policy. It identifies a crucial coalition between FAS, the European Commission and local/regional social entrepreneurs as the basis for an interventionist policy that has been critical to the success of the tiger economy. The parochial and highly responsive nature of Irish politics and the sovereignty-diffusing role of the EU can be seen to be the driving forces behind dramatic policy and institutional innovation.
2003
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2843/1/094.pdf
Boyle, Nigel. (2003) "Employment programs in Ireland 1987-1999: National, sub-national and supra -national governance in a globalized political economy". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/2843/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2906
2011-02-15T22:24:29Z
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"Between the sterling and the Deutsche mark: The Irish choice for the European monetary integration"
Park, June.
U.K.
Ireland
EMU/EMS/euro
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
This paper addresses the question of how Ireland entered European Monetary regime and sustained its membership since 1979. In contrast Britain, with which Ireland had been engaged in a de facto currency union over a century, chose to stay outside. This paper argues that strong prime ministerial power that characterized the politics of Ireland was the political foundation of economic stabilization, which in turn accounted for Ireland's continuous participation in European monetary regime.
2003
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2906/1/145.pdf
Park, June. (2003) "Between the sterling and the Deutsche mark: The Irish choice for the European monetary integration". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/2906/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:2961
2011-02-15T22:24:48Z
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"The two referenda on Nice, the security debate in Ireland, and the limits of Europeanization"
Sweeney, Daniel R.
Ireland
europeanisation/europeanization & European identity
Nice Treaty
European elections/voting behavior
The rejection of the Nice Treaty in the first attempt to ratify it by referendum on June 7, 2001, was a great shock to the political establishment in Ireland, the only member state that has ratified every treaty revision by both parliamentary approval and a referendum. The shock extended beyond Ireland to the leadership of the other member states and to the applicant countries in central and Eastern Europe. The Fianna Fail-Progressive Democrats coalition government received most of the blame because they negotiated and signed the treaty and were responsible for seeing to its ratification. The ratification campaign was lackluster, unmotivated, and failed both to explain adequately the treaty and to assert the government's positions in the face of criticisms from the anti-Nice campaigners. The electorate's general disillusionment with political leaders, the complexity of the teary, and emotional appeals on immigration, the cost of enlargement, the place of small states in an enlarged Union, and perceived threats to military neutrality combined to produce a low turnout and a higher than anticipated "No" vote.
2003
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/2961/1/164.pdf
Sweeney, Daniel R. (2003) "The two referenda on Nice, the security debate in Ireland, and the limits of Europeanization". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/2961/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:3025
2011-02-15T22:25:05Z
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"What makes a good EU Presidency? Italy and Ireland compared*"
Quaglia, Lucia
Moxon-Browne, Edward.
Ireland
Italy
European Council-Presidency
What makes a ‘good’ EU Presidency? A comparison between the two most recent Italian and Irish experiences in office can be instrumental in evaluating the crucial factors that affect presidency performance. The argument is developed in three main stages. Firstly, four key roles are selected in order to benchmark presidencies. Secondly, these roles are applied to the empirical record as criteria to devise a score-card of the two presidencies under consideration. Thirdly, the factors that affect the performance of the presidency are elicited, and are related to two mainstream theoretical approaches deployed in the study of the EU. It is argued here that socially constructed elements, such as expertise in EU affairs, political credibility, and attitudes towards European integration, have more explanatory leverage than purely power-based factors, such as country size, economic and political weight.
2005
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
text/plain
http://aei.pitt.edu/3025/1/Italian%2DIrishEUPresidenciesMarch.txt
application/msword
http://aei.pitt.edu/3025/2/Italian%2DIrishEUPresidenciesMarch.doc
Quaglia, Lucia and Moxon-Browne, Edward. (2005) "What makes a good EU Presidency? Italy and Ireland compared*". In: UNSPECIFIED, Austin, Texas. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/3025/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:3037
2011-02-15T22:25:09Z
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"Managing Europe from Home in Dublin, Athens and Helsinki: A Comparative Analysis"
Laffan, Brigid.
governance: EU & national level
Ireland
Finland
Greece
The article provides a comparative analysis of core executive adaptation to engagement with the European Union in three states, Ireland, Greece, and Finland. To date the substantive focus of the literature on executive adaptation has been on the question of convergence or continuing divergence of national responses. The dominant conclusion points to the continuing divergence of national responses. The analytical framework that guided the empirical work in this paper was divided into two inter-related institutional components, structures and processes and the agents who actively engage with the EU’s governance structures. The comparative analysis provides evidence of both convergence and continuing diversity. In managing Europe from Home, states appear to choose from a menu of possible models, prime ministerial or foreign ministry led systems. Two variables stand out in explaining variation across the six states, the level of institionalisation and the relationship between formal and informal processes.
2005
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
text/plain
http://aei.pitt.edu/3037/1/EUSA_paper.txt
application/msword
http://aei.pitt.edu/3037/2/EUSA_paper.doc
Laffan, Brigid. (2005) "Managing Europe from Home in Dublin, Athens and Helsinki: A Comparative Analysis". In: UNSPECIFIED, Austin, Texas. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/3037/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:3300
2011-02-15T22:26:25Z
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"Political Collaboration under Pressure: Some lessons from the European Arrest Warrant"
Payne, Diane
with Andreou, George
Kinnunen, Jussi
O'Mahoney, Jane.
Ireland
general
Finland
Greece
decision making/policy-making
[Introduction]. In recent years, the area of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) has become a top priority on the EU agenda. Even at a glance, one is struck by the speed with which policy issues within this broad policy area, which were usually seen as the last remaining preserve of the individual member states, are increasingly perceived and identified as European-wide policy concerns. In particular, this research paper focuses the analysis on the political negotiations for the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) framework decision. The fine balance between security, freedom and justice in the newly enlarging Europe is being rigorously tested in the current pervasive climate of fear, which is fuelled by the "global threats" of terrorism and cross-border crime. The negotiations for the European Arrest Warrant provide an excellent example of how these contrasting pressures can play out within the arena of EU policy making. In the first part of this paper, the historical context for the emergence of the European Arrest Warrant negotiations is presented. The next section presents the analytical approach used in this research, which involved the application and comparison of different explanations or models of policy making. Since the 1980s, several models of collective decision making have been developed that provide far reaching insights into the dynamics of decision making processes (for example Bueno de Mesquita et al 1985 , Stokman and Van Oosten 1994 ). The main differences between the models concern the assumptions they make regarding the behaviour of the actors involved in the decision-making process. On the basis of the accuracy of the models’ forecasts of decision outcomes, we can make inferences about the relevance of the influence strategies posited. The empirical research first examined the policy preparatory stage at the national level and in particular focused on three small member states, Greece, Ireland and Finland. This research illustrates the strong cross-national differences that exist with regard to the level of centralisation, as well as the level of transparency, which characterises the processes of EU policy preparation in the JHA arena in each country. Following this, the analysis focused on the decision-making phase at the European level for the European Arrest Warrant. The application of the modelling approach allows an insight into the kind of bargaining across issues, as well as the likely gains and losses incurred by the member states involved in these negotiations.
2005
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
text/plain
http://aei.pitt.edu/3300/1/EUSA_paper_Diane_Payne.txt
application/msword
http://aei.pitt.edu/3300/2/EUSA_paper_Diane_Payne.doc
Payne, Diane and with Andreou, George and Kinnunen, Jussi and O'Mahoney, Jane. (2005) "Political Collaboration under Pressure: Some lessons from the European Arrest Warrant". In: UNSPECIFIED, Austin, Texas. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/3300/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:5719
2011-02-15T23:45:40Z
oai:aei.pitt.edu:5915
2011-02-15T22:39:25Z
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What Does Business Think of the EU Constitution? EIPA Working Paper 06/W/2005
Forbes, Arthur.
Ireland
governance: EU & national level
Constitution for Europe
economic policy
general
human rights
business/private economic activity
[Introduction]. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the 'Future of Europe' process and critically evaluate the 'Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe', the final product that emerged from the Convention on the Future of Europe and the Intergovernmental Conference. The paper in particular focuses on the views and positions promoted by both the Irish and combined European business community during the process.1 The main areas examined are social policy issues stemming from the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the Constitution, the Constitution’s provisions on economic and social policy in Parts I and III, and finally the new role for National Parliaments within the Union’s governance structures.
2005
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/5915/1/FC0506e.pdf
Forbes, Arthur. (2005) What Does Business Think of the EU Constitution? EIPA Working Paper 06/W/2005. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/5915/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:6047
2011-02-15T22:40:16Z
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Social Partnership and the Enterprise - Some Lessons From the Irish Experience
Teague, Paul.
Ireland
general
This paper examines the Irish experience of social partnership at organisation level. It argues that three features in particular distinguish the Irish case. One is the importance attached to a procedural consensus to advance partnership. Another is the stress placed on experimental action in the development of these arrangements. A third characteristic is the use of an essentially non-legalistic public support framework to foster and guide the evolution of enterprise partnerships. The paper argues that while these features have merit they have not been to overcome fully what is called the partnership trilemma. This has caused the spread of organisational partnerships to remain stunted.
European Political-economy Infrastructure Consortium (EPIC)
Schwarzer, Daniela
Tulmets, Elsa.
2004
Article
PeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/6047/1/teague.pdf
Teague, Paul. (2004) Social Partnership and the Enterprise - Some Lessons From the Irish Experience. European Political Economy Review, 2 (1). 06-35.
http://aei.pitt.edu/6047/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:6490
2011-02-15T22:42:48Z
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"The Europeanization of Irish environmental policy: The triumph of policy style over substance?"
Flynn, Brendan.
Ireland
europeanisation/europeanization & European identity
environmental policy (including international arena)
Irish environmental policy has unquestionably been altered through its engagement with over three decades of EU environmental policy-making. Where before her entry into the then EEC in 1973, Ireland had a somewhat minimalist and British influenced corpus of environmental regulation, she can now point to a march larger more diverse and more Europeanized body of environmental policy. Europeanization has then certainly increased and modernized the content of Irish environmental policy. Yet, the style and structures of Irish environmental policy have been much less influenced by the EU.
2003
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/6490/1/001525_1.PDF
Flynn, Brendan. (2003) "The Europeanization of Irish environmental policy: The triumph of policy style over substance?". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/6490/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:6510
2011-02-15T22:42:55Z
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"The Europeanization of national environmental policy: A comparative analysis"
Jordan, Andrew
Liefferink, Duncan.
Ireland
europeanisation/europeanization & European identity
Finland
France
Spain
Netherlands
Germany
Sweden
Greece
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
U.K.
Austria
environmental policy (including international arena)
The aim of this [paper] is to document the Europeanization of national policy since 1970 in ten member states, namely Austria, Eire, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Given that our aim is to explore how common policies adopted by the EU are refracted by different national institutional forms, we have opted to focus on one sector, namely environmental policy, rather than looking at the Europeanization of several sectors in one single country, or a mixture of sectors and countries. Our selection of countries constitutes a representative same of "new" (i.e., post-1995) and older member states, environmental "leaders" and "laggards," and northern and southern states, to understand the main dynamics at work. By national "policy," we mean the content of policies (the paradigms of action, the objectives, and the policy instruments), the legal and administrative structures that that have been established to oversee them, and the dominant style in which policy is made and implemented.
2003
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/6510/1/001517_1.PDF
Jordan, Andrew and Liefferink, Duncan. (2003) "The Europeanization of national environmental policy: A comparative analysis". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/6510/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:6566
2011-02-15T22:43:13Z
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"EU governance, misfit and the partisan logic of domestic adaptation: An actor-centered perspective on the transposition of EU directives"
Treib, Oliver.
governance: EU & national level
Ireland
employment/unemployment
Netherlands
Germany
compliance/national implementation
U.K.
The success or failure of governance in the European multi-level system depends crucially on member states' willingness and ability to implement the decisions taken in Brussels. That is particularly true for the implementation of Directives, which are not directly applicable at the national level, but have to be transposed into national law before they may become effective in practice. It is the aim of this paper to shed light on the logic of this process. What tie the causes of delays and deviations from the intentions laid down in the European policy measures? In this context, some scholars have pointed to the degree of fit or misfit between European demands and existing national structures and traditions as one of the major factors determining implementation performance. On the basis of empirical evidence from the transposition of six employment rights Directives in German, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, the paper demonstrates the limited explanatory power of this approach. Instead, it stresses the importance of domestic party politics in determining transposition performance and discusses the implications of this finding for the governance capacity of the EU.
2003
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/6566/1/001317_1.PDF
Treib, Oliver. (2003) "EU governance, misfit and the partisan logic of domestic adaptation: An actor-centered perspective on the transposition of EU directives". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/6566/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:6727
2011-02-15T22:44:09Z
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Potential WTO Trade Reform: Multifunctionality Impacts for Ireland?. CEPS ENARPRI Working Papers No. 16, 7 June 2006
Donnellan, Trevor
Hanrahan, Kevin.
Ireland
GATT/WTO
international trade
agriculture policy
trade policy
environmental policy (including international arena)
The economic impact of trade policy reforms on various sectors of the economy receives more attention than the effects on the environment. This may be partly owing to the secondary importance attributed to environmental or multifunctionality issues when economic consequences take centre stage. An additional consideration, however, may be the practical difficulties of bringing together models that examine the economic impact of trade policy reforms and models that can measure environmental or multifunctionality indicators. This paper examines one aspect of the relationship between trade policy and the environment, namely that between agricultural trade policy reform and emissions from the agricultural sector. The paper analyses the impact of agricultural production levels and practices on the level of greenhouse gas (GHG) and ammonia emissions from this sector in Ireland. The study combines an economic, partial equilibrium, agricultural commodity and inputs model (the FAPRI-Ireland model) with a model for the estimation of GHG and ammonia emissions from agriculture. The paper considers a potential reform of agricultural trade policy under a possible World Trade Organisation agreement, to reveal the extent to which there are environmental effects associated with such a reform that need to be considered in addition to the conventional economic ones.
2006-06
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/6727/1/1336_16.pdf
Donnellan, Trevor and Hanrahan, Kevin. (2006) Potential WTO Trade Reform: Multifunctionality Impacts for Ireland?. CEPS ENARPRI Working Papers No. 16, 7 June 2006. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/6727/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:6735
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Integration and Conditional Convergence in the Enlarged EU Area. CEPS ENEPRI Working Papers No. 31, 1 February 2005
Kaitila, Ville.
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
U.K.
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Cyprus
EMU/EMS/euro
labour/labor
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
This working paper analyses conditional convergence in Europe and also tries to assess the impact that arises from integration. Using a pooled mean-group estimation method, we first analyse the conditional convergence of GDP per labour force in the area covering the 15 member states of the European Union (EU-15) in 1960-2002. Conditional convergence is well-documented for the EU-15. Higher investment, lower public consumption and lower inflation have contributed positively to GDP growth. Deeper European integration is shown to have accelerated growth when inflation is not included in the specification, but not otherwise. The evidence on the effect of integration on growth is therefore mixed. We then apply the same method to estimate the growth of GDP per labour force in the new EU member states – the eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) – for the period 1993-2002. These countries are shown to have converged conditionally towards the average level of GDP per labour force in the EU-15. Higher investment and lower public consumption have also supported growth in the CEECs.
2005-02
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/6735/1/1196_31.pdf
Kaitila, Ville. (2005) Integration and Conditional Convergence in the Enlarged EU Area. CEPS ENEPRI Working Papers No. 31, 1 February 2005. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/6735/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:6828
2011-02-15T22:44:46Z
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The European Constitution and its Ratification Crisis. Constitutional Debates in the EU Member States. ZEI Discussion Papers C. 156, 2006
Authors, Numerous.
Ireland
Belgium
Italy
Denmark
Latvia
Estonia
Slovak Republic
Lithuania
Finland
Slovenia
Luxembourg
France
Cyprus
Spain
Netherlands
Malta
Germany
Sweden
Greece
Poland
Hungary
U.K.
Portugal
Czech Republic
Constitution for Europe
Austria
The following collection of papers examines the ratification process in each individual Member State, taking into consideration the most recent developments at the time of writing (January 2006). Furthermore, these papers discuss the position of party groups represented in the European Parliament on the Constitutional Treaty. The concise overview of the political and public debates on the Treaty, as well as the data collected on public opinion, shed light on the current state of the ratification process. The publication offers an analytical look into the constitutional moods of the 25 EU Member States and attempts to outline options for the future of the Constitutional Treaty. Table of Contents: Introduction; Constitutional Debates in Member States with a Referendum (individual chapters on Spain, France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Poland, Czech Republic, Great Britain); Constitutional Debates in “old“ Member States without Referendum (individual chapters on Austria, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Finland); Constitutional debates in “new“ Member States without Referendum (individual chapters on Lithuania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Malta, Cyprus); Constitutional Debates among the Factions in the European Parliament (individual chapters on Party Groups in the European Parliament, European People’s Party, Party of European Socialists, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, The Greens/European Free Alliance, The European United Left – Nordic Green Left, Independence/Democracy Group, Union for Europe of the Nations); Conclusion.
Eschke, Nina
Malick, Thomas.
2006
Discussion Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/6828/1/dp_c156_eschke_malick.pdf
Authors, Numerous. (2006) The European Constitution and its Ratification Crisis. Constitutional Debates in the EU Member States. ZEI Discussion Papers C. 156, 2006. [Discussion Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/6828/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:6902
2011-02-15T22:45:10Z
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"The Real Costs of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment to the European Union - With Specific Reference to the UK, Belgium and Eire"
Breverton, T.D.
U.K.
Ireland
Belgium
Japan
general
In late May 1995, an OECD Conference is scheduled specifically to discuss Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), which consists of building greenfield sites, acquisitions, or joint ventures). FDI rose four-fold between 1985 and 1993, twice as fast as world trade, but there are very few rules in existence to govern it. While politicians and companies review progress towards full European economic integration, the lack of economic growth has highlighted questions about Europe's continuing ability to attract a significant share of highly mobile international business investment. It is predicted that the EU's share of world GDP will drop from 22% in 1990 to 17% in 2010, while Asian economies will rise from 18% to 28% over the same period. No-one seems to disagree with this scenario, and the free-market view, which has taken over all Western governmental policy-making, is that European labor markets are too rigid, and the costs of employing workers is too high. This paper examines these trends and their causes, and speculates on the impacts they may have upon Japanese FDI. The paper also analyzes the impacts of Japanese FDI upon the EU, with particular reference made to the cases of the UK, Belgium, and Eire.
1995
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/6902/1/breverton_t_d.pdf
Breverton, T.D. (1995) "The Real Costs of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment to the European Union - With Specific Reference to the UK, Belgium and Eire". In: UNSPECIFIED, Charleston, South Carolina. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/6902/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:6970
2011-02-15T22:45:31Z
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"The European Parliament and Enlargement: 1973 to 2000"
Neunreither, Karlheinz.
Ireland
Denmark
EU-Central and Eastern Europe
Germany
enlargement
Spain
Greece
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
U.K.
Portugal
European Parliament
During the 40 years of its existence the European Parliament (EP) has changed more dramatically than the other EC institutions: from a mere deliberative assembly, the EP has become a co-leglislator, and elections of its Members provide the source of direct legitimacy of the European Union (EU). Subsequent enlargements had also a greater impact on the EP than on the Commission, or the Council. The paper gives an insider's view on some of the immediate effects: for the first time in 1973 a group of British Lords arrived to a very hot Brussels committee meeting and, to the surprise of the continental parliamentarians, took of their jackets and loosened their ties, which had never been seen before at any of the EP meetings. In the eighties Greece and then Spain and Portugal joined. More recent examples include German reunification, "a false enlargement", which resulted in the addition of 18 parliamentary "observers". The various increases in the composition of the EP combined with the increase of legislative procedures in the mid '80s were a major challenge to the leadership capacity both of political groups, of the Presidency, and of the Committee system. Up to now the EP has more or less met this challenge far as internal efficiency is concerned. A major deficit remains, however, in its perception by the public, the resulting participation in elections, and beyond that its direct relations with the citizen. None of the past enlargements, as different from each other as they may have keen, put into question the unicity of the EC institutional system. This may radically change with the forthcoming inclusion of Central and Eastern European countries. The 1996 Intergovernmental Conference may well open the way to a differentiated integration which would create major problems for the EP. The EP is discussing at present how to meet this challenge.
1995
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/6970/1/neunreither_karlheinz.pdf
Neunreither, Karlheinz. (1995) "The European Parliament and Enlargement: 1973 to 2000". In: UNSPECIFIED, Charleston, South Carolina. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/6970/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:7223
2011-02-15T22:47:02Z
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"Industrial Development and Capital Grants Policy: European Example"
Haynes, Kingsley E.
Dignan, Tony.
U.K.
Ireland
Belgium
regional policy/structural funds
Italy
[From the Introduction]. Uneven development of regions within a national state has, as one of its dimensions, an imbalance in the distribution of employment opportunities. Countries such as Italy, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, among others, provide examples of this phenomenon. In each of these countries there exists a locational problem - some region (or set of regions) experiences difficulty in attracting new industry and the employment opportunities associated with new industry activity. Recognizing this locational problem, a variety of national governments (including the four cited above) have attempted to modify the relative attractiveness of regions to firms by offering inducements to firms to locate in relatively disadvantaged regions. Typically, the inducement takes the form of a locational cost reduction mechanism. In Smith's (1966) terminology, the national government seeks to expand the spatial margins to profitability so as to include disadvantaged regions. Examples of such inducements are direct capital grants (utilized in Ireland), interest rate subsidies (utilized in Belgium), and employment premiums (utilized in the United Kingdom).
1991
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/7223/1/002471_1A.pdf
Haynes, Kingsley E. and Dignan, Tony. (1991) "Industrial Development and Capital Grants Policy: European Example". In: UNSPECIFIED, Fairfax, Virginia. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/7223/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:7258
2011-02-15T22:47:14Z
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"Wider but weaker or the more the merrier: enlargement and foreign policy cooperation in the EC/EU"
Allen, David.
U.K.
Ireland
Denmark
enlargement
Norway
foreign/security policy 1950s-1992 (includes EPC)
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
[From the Introduction]. In 1969 the six member states of the EC decided at the Hague to initiate both enlargement negotiations with the four applicants (UK, Ireland, Denmark and Norway) and the process of foreign policy cooperation known as European Political Cooperation (EPC). There has always been a certain ambiguity about this decision, which can be seen either as a determination to match enlargement - widening - with a parallel decision to deepen or as an intergovernmentalist challenge to the Community method along the lines initially proposed by De Gaulle and Fouchet in the early 1960s.
1995
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/7258/1/Allen.pdf
Allen, David. (1995) "Wider but weaker or the more the merrier: enlargement and foreign policy cooperation in the EC/EU". In: UNSPECIFIED, Charleston, South Carolinla. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/7258/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:7302
2011-02-15T22:47:28Z
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"The Restructured Cap and the Periphery of the EU"
Baltas, Nicholas C.
Portugal
Ireland
Spain
agriculture policy
Greece
[From the introduction]. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and examine in a broad sense the consequences of CAP reforms for the periphery countries of the Community. While there is no unique definition of which regions constitute the periphery countries of the Community, in terms of agricultural structure there are major differences between the periphery, mostly Mediterranean part of the Community, and the rest. For instance, in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain agriculture's shares of income and employment in their national income and total employment respectively are significantly higher than in the other EU countries. Furthermore, farms in Spain, Greece and Portugal, on average are characterized by smaller sizes, lower labour productivity and higher shares of Mediterranean products, compared to farms in the north. For the purposes of this paper, and to facilitate the statistical work, the perphery regions of the EU will be considered to consist of those in the four countries mentioned above. The paper consists of six sections. The second section reviews agriculture in the periphery countries. In the next section an evaluation of the CAP prior to the McSharry reforms is provided while special reference is made of its effects on the periphery countries. In Section 4 are discussed the effects of the reform of the CAP on the agricultural sectors of the periphery countries. In Section 5, the conclusions are summarized and some policy implications are drawn. Finally, the recent developments in agricultural policy in the EU are described in the Appendix.
1995
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/7302/1/002973_1.pdf
Baltas, Nicholas C. (1995) "The Restructured Cap and the Periphery of the EU". In: UNSPECIFIED, Charleston, South Carolina. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/7302/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:7396
2012-04-06T17:05:50Z
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Economic Impact of Regulation in the Field of Liberal Professions in Different Member States. ENEPRI Working Paper, No. 52, 8 February 2007
Paterson, Iain,
Fink, Marcel,
Ogus, Anthony,
Merz, Joachim,
Fink, Felix,
Berrer, Helmut.
Ireland
Italy
Denmark
Finland
France
Spain
Netherlands
Germany
Sweden
U.K.
Portugal
regulations/regulatory policies
general
Austria
[From the Introduction]. This study presents a comparison of the legislation, regulations and codes of practice governing the practice of a range of professional services across member states of the European Union. The professions covered by the study are legal services (lawyers and notaries), accountancy services (accountants, auditors and tax advisers), technical services (architects and consulting engineers) as well as pharmacy services (community pharmacists). While there is a body of theory concerning regulation, in particular concerning the selfregulation of liberal professions, most comparative empirical studies of outcomes have been carried out in the context of state comparisons in the USA. We distinguish between theories that give answers to the question ‘why regulation of professional services (at all)?’ and those that offer answers the question ‘why is there often too high a degree of regulation?’ This distinction is made because a specific regulatory base exists for all the four professional services fields in all member states, but the range of regulatory scope and intensity varies considerably throughout the Union. This fact gives rise to the basic research questions posed in the study, namely whether, to what extent, and in which areas, regulation differs between countries, and in particular to identify the economic effects of different degrees of regulation in member states. The approach used in the study is comparative, and draws on as much information about the liberal professions in member states as exists and has been made available for the study. No adequate knowledge base of regulations or outcomes was previously in existence, so questionnaires were sent to professional bodies in each of the fields covered in all member states, and additionally to European professional umbrella organisations, as well as to some relevant Government departments. The questionnaires sought details of market entry and conduct regulation, recent changes in regulations, and basic economic data of the market for each profession. In addition, detailed accounts of the regulatory features and economic outcomes of specific professions in specific member states are contained in the 17 case studies in Part Two of the report.
2007-02
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/7396/2/7396.pdf
Paterson, Iain, and Fink, Marcel, and Ogus, Anthony, and Merz, Joachim, and Fink, Felix, and Berrer, Helmut. (2007) Economic Impact of Regulation in the Field of Liberal Professions in Different Member States. ENEPRI Working Paper, No. 52, 8 February 2007. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/7396/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:7941
2011-02-15T22:51:07Z
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"Discontinuity: Another Source for the EU’s Democratic Deficit?"
Konig, Thomas.
Ireland
europeanisation/europeanization & European identity
Denmark
Luxembourg
France
Sweden
Greece
democracy/democratic deficit
Austria
This study evaluates discontinuity that is induced by the two-stage lawmaking process of EU directives and discussed in the jurisprudential literature as another source for the EU’s democratic deficit. While directives must be transposed into national law, their lengthy transposition period has raised the normative question about the extent to which governments of today can politically and reliably commit domestic majorities of tomorrow. From a political science perspective, this jack-in-the-box-effect is particularly critical in systems with restrictive voting procedures and high agency loss because the parliamentary principal is unable to learn about the behaviour of the governmental agent and can hardly change or amend the decision of the former government. Hence, the empirical task is to identify the potential for discontinuity in EU lawmaking which requires measuring the governmental activities in the implementation process and to compare the preferences of the former and current majorities. This is the first study which empirically analyzes the potential of discontinuity by combining statistics on the implementation process in the 15 member states with preference indicators for their governments over a period of almost 20 years. The findings reveal that parliaments are almost excluded from this process. On closer inspection, the results show that the preferences of the former and the newly elected representatives differ drastically in about one third of all cases, in particular in Austria, Denmark, France, Sweden – and to a lesser extent – in Ireland, Greece and Luxembourg where public support for European integration has also notably decreased in recent years.
2007
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/7941/1/konig%2Dt%2D06a.pdf
Konig, Thomas. (2007) "Discontinuity: Another Source for the EU’s Democratic Deficit?". In: UNSPECIFIED, Montreal, Canada. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/7941/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:8265
2011-02-15T22:53:08Z
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spotlight europe 2008/05, May 2008: Green Light from the Emerald Isle? Ten Questions and Answers about Ireland
Hierlemann, Dominik
Heydecker, Christian
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
Lisbon Treaty
On 12 June 2008 Europeans will be looking intently at Ireland, for the Irish electorate is the only one in Europe which is being permitted to vote on the Treaty of Lisbon. For a long time the referendum seemed to be a foregone conclusion. However, as the poll approaches, a “Yes” vote is be-ginning to seem more uncertain. Ten questions and answers shed some light on the current situation.
2008-05
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/8265/1/xcms_bst_dms_24416_24417_2.pdf
Hierlemann, Dominik and Heydecker, Christian (2008) spotlight europe 2008/05, May 2008: Green Light from the Emerald Isle? Ten Questions and Answers about Ireland. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/8265/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:8266
2011-02-15T22:53:08Z
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spotlight europe 2008/05: Grünes Licht von der Grünen Insel? Zehn Fragen zu Irland = spotlight europe 2008/05: Green Light from the Emerald Isle? Ten Questions and Answers about Ireland
Hierlemann, Dominik
Heydecker, Christian.
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
Lisbon Treaty
Am 12. Juni 2008 richten sich alle europäischen Blicke nach Irland. Die irischen Bürger sind die Einzigen, die über den Vertrag von Lissabon ab-stimmen dürfen. Lange Zeit schien das Referendum im pro-europäischen Irland reine Formsache zu sein. Doch je näher die Abstimmung rückt, de-sto unsicherer wird das "Ja". Ein Überblick in zehn Fragen.
2008-05
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/8266/1/xcms_bst_dms_24414_24415_2.pdf
Hierlemann, Dominik and Heydecker, Christian. (2008) spotlight europe 2008/05: Grünes Licht von der Grünen Insel? Zehn Fragen zu Irland = spotlight europe 2008/05: Green Light from the Emerald Isle? Ten Questions and Answers about Ireland. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/8266/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:8334
2011-02-15T22:53:25Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303037
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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The Euro: Only for the Agile. Bruegel policy brief 2006/01, February 2006
Ahearne, Alan
Pisani-Ferry, Jean.
Portugal
Ireland
France
Germany
EMU/EMS/euro
Summary. Contrary to often-heard concerns, the main question regarding the future of the European single currency is not who is going to leave, but who is going to join. Three of the new EU member states want to join Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and adopt the euro within the next year, and others are due to follow within the next decade. The experience of the first seven years demonstrates that membership has its benefits, but that these benefits are not free. Being part of a currency union requires discipline, and the loss of the exchange rate as an instrument for coping with economic shocks can be costly. Within the euro area some members, such as Ireland, are thriving; others, especially among the southern member states, are struggling and face painful adjustments in the future. As the chart below illustrates, economic divergences between existing members have been significant. Ireland and Portugal have experienced marked real exchange rate appreciation, but with very different consequences for export growth. There has been real depreciation in both Germany and France, but only Germany’s exports have flourished.
2006-02
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/8334/1/PB200601_Euro.pdf
Ahearne, Alan and Pisani-Ferry, Jean. (2006) The Euro: Only for the Agile. Bruegel policy brief 2006/01, February 2006. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/8334/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:8349
2011-02-15T22:53:29Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303233
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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A Tale of Two Countries. Bruegel policy brief 2008/04, June 2008
Ahearne, Alan
Delgado, Juan
von Weizsacker, Jakob.
Ireland
Spain
EMU/EMS/euro
Summary. The outlook for two of the euro area’s best performing economies to date, Ireland and Spain, has darkened dramatically recently amid severe downturns in housing markets. What do these countries’ experiences tell us about the functioning of EMU? Bruegel’s new policy brief ‘A Tail of Two Countries’ examines the behaviour of housing markets in Ireland and Spain during EMU and considers what features and policies may have facilitated the overheating of housing markets in these countries. It also discusses the role of large migration flows in spurring growth in housing.
2008-06
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/8349/1/PB200804.pdf
Ahearne, Alan and Delgado, Juan and von Weizsacker, Jakob. (2008) A Tale of Two Countries. Bruegel policy brief 2008/04, June 2008. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/8349/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:8359
2014-07-18T00:23:05Z
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74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
spotlight europe special edition 2008/06: Irish Vote, Europe's Future: Four options after the "No"
Hierlemann, Dominik.
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
Lisbon Treaty
Ireland has rejected the Treaty of Lisbon. More than six years after the start of the constitutional process, the work and effort of the European Union seems to have been in vain. The intention was to make the com-munity more effective and far more democratic. All that remains is a feel-ing of helplessness. What, if anything, can European policymakers do in this situation?
2008-06
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/8359/1/xcms_bst_dms_24757_24758_2.pdf
Hierlemann, Dominik. (2008) spotlight europe special edition 2008/06: Irish Vote, Europe's Future: Four options after the "No". [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/8359/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:8363
2014-07-18T00:24:25Z
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74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
spotlight europe spezial 2008/06: Was nun, Europa? Vier Optionen nach dem irischen "Nein" = Irish Vote, Europe's Future: Four options after the "No"
Hierlemann, Dominik
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
Lisbon Treaty
Irland hat den Vertrag von Lissabon abgelehnt. Mehr als sechs Jahre nach Ausrufung des Verfassungsprozesses steht die Europäische Union vor dem Trümmerhaufen ihrer Bemühungen. Effektiver und demokratischer sollte die Gemeinschaft werden. Geblieben ist allein Ratlosigkeit. Welche Möglichkeiten bleiben der europäischen Politik?
2008-06
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/8363/1/xcms_bst_dms_24749_24750_2.pdf
Hierlemann, Dominik (2008) spotlight europe spezial 2008/06: Was nun, Europa? Vier Optionen nach dem irischen "Nein" = Irish Vote, Europe's Future: Four options after the "No". [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/8363/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:9128
2011-02-15T22:59:04Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D46:46303131
7375626A656374733D44:44303031:44303031303138:656C6D696E647573747269616C6C61626F757272656C6174696F6E73
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
74797065733D776F726B696E677061706572
Institutional Change in Industrial Relations: Coordination and Common Knowledge in Ireland, Italy and Australia. CES Working Paper, no. 127, 2005
Culpepper, Pepper D.
Ireland
Italy
industrial/labour relations
When should we ever expect to see durable moves toward greater wage bargaining coordination? Moving to sustained coordinated wage bargaining presupposes that unions and employers can both be convinced that wage bargaining is in fact a game in which both actors prefer coordination. This can only happen when these social actors come to accept as true an idea of the economy in which their coordination through wage bargaining institutions will give them better outcomes than would bargaining through decentralized institutions. This paper argues that the process of developing common knowledge changes institutional preferences among employers. It was the development of common knowledge that changed employer preferences about the attractiveness of institutions for wage coordination in Ireland in Italy. In both cases, the development of common expectations required the emergence and joint ratification of a common set of references, in what I call common knowledge events. These events led organized employers to change their previous position about acceptable institutions of wage bargaining. This change made possible the institutionalization of coordinated wage bargaining in both countries. As demonstrated through counterfactual analysis of the Australian case, the emergence and ratification of such a common view is the necessary condition for the emergence and survival of coordinated wage bargaining institutions.
2005
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/9128/1/CulpepperInstChange.pdf
Culpepper, Pepper D. (2005) Institutional Change in Industrial Relations: Coordination and Common Knowledge in Ireland, Italy and Australia. CES Working Paper, no. 127, 2005. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/9128/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:9383
2012-04-03T16:19:36Z
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74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
Essential Steps for the European Union after the “No” Votes in France, the Netherlands & Ireland. CEPS Policy Briefs No. 166, 26 August 2008.
Lang, John Temple.
Gallagher, Eamonn.
Ireland
France
European elections/voting behavior
Netherlands
Lisbon Treaty
This Policy Brief outlines a number of steps that need to be taken to make the EU more comprehensible and acceptable to all its peoples – and not only the peoples of France, the Netherlands and Ireland. In the authors’ view, among these steps, three in particular are indispensable: Council discussions must be made public, Commissioners must make a much greater effort to explain EU policies, and one Commissioner for each member state must be permanently assured. In combination, these measures will hopefully address the widespread mistrust that has prevented the EU from having the support it needs to move ahead. The authors are both former senior officials of the EU. John Temple Lang is a lawyer with Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP, Brussels and London; Professor, Trinity College, Dublin; and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Oxford. Eamonn Gallagher is former Director General in the European Commission and former EC Ambassador to the United Nations, New York.
2008-08
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/9383/2/9383.pdf
Lang, John Temple. and Gallagher, Eamonn. (2008) Essential Steps for the European Union after the “No” Votes in France, the Netherlands & Ireland. CEPS Policy Briefs No. 166, 26 August 2008. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/9383/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:9470
2012-04-06T17:29:48Z
7374617475733D707562
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74797065733D6F74686572
Incidence of Poor Health and Long-Term Care: Health Transitions in Europe – Results from the European Community Household Panel Survey and Institutional Data. ENEPRI Research Reports No. 34, 23 December 2006
Bebbington, Andrew
Shapiro, Judith.
U.K.
Portugal
Ireland
Belgium
public health policy (including global activities)
Italy
Denmark
Finland
Netherlands
Germany
Greece
This is the final report of Work Package 3 of the AHEAD project, undertaken by the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent. This Work Package has aimed at providing estimations, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), of annual probabilities of transition between health states, including two states regarded as absorbing: permanent institutionalisation and mortality. The purpose of this work is to serve as a building block for estimating healthy life expectancy and forecasting the future health expenditure needs of populations. This report breaks new ground in providing comparative information on rates of long-stay entry into permanent health-care institutions for persons aged over 65. Two definitions of health state are used for this purpose: self-assessed health and a chronic, hampering health condition. After an initial assessment of the ECHP, undocumented problems regarding the reporting of mortality and institutionalisation resulted in a change of strategy. This change involved post-stratification to adjust for mortality and obtaining information about rates of institutionalisation from alternative sources on a country-by-country basis for those countries for which information was available. Yet this approach was not practicable for all of the countries participating in the ECHP. Full results are provided for Belgium, the UK, Ireland and Italy; partial results are provided for Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Greece, Portugal and Finland. These results consist of the estimated annual probabilities of transition between health states (including mortality) for adults living in private households, and for persons over 65 the estimated annual probabilities of first-time admission from the community as a long-stay resident of a health-care institution. The results are presented in the form of probit equations, which enable estimates to be prepared by age and gender.
2006-12
Other
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/9470/2/9470.pdf
Bebbington, Andrew and Shapiro, Judith. (2006) Incidence of Poor Health and Long-Term Care: Health Transitions in Europe – Results from the European Community Household Panel Survey and Institutional Data. ENEPRI Research Reports No. 34, 23 December 2006. UNSPECIFIED.
http://aei.pitt.edu/9470/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:9744
2011-02-15T23:03:37Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
spotlight europe 2008/13 - December 2008: Lessons from the Treaty Fatigue.
Hierlemann, Dominik.
Ireland
Italy
France
European elections/voting behavior
Germany
Poland
U.K.
Czech Republic
Lisbon Treaty
The Irish Government has decided to hold a second referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon. A Bertelsmann Stiftung survey demonstrates that 92 per cent of the Irish reject the idea of their country leaving the European Union. This percentage is higher than in Germany (86 per cent) or Poland (83 per cent). 59 per cent of Ireland’s British neighbours want to remain in the EU, and only 32 per cent are in favour of leaving. In the December edition of the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s spotlight europe Dominik Hierlemann analyses the results of the survey from seven EU member states. A movement away from the EU is nowhere to be seen. However, as Hierlemann points out, trouble is still brewing not only in Ireland, but also in the Czech Republic, despite the pro-ratification ruling of its constitutional court.
2008-12
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/9744/1/Engl_spotlight_europe_Lessons_Treaty_Fatigue_08%2D12%2D15.pdf
Hierlemann, Dominik. (2008) spotlight europe 2008/13 - December 2008: Lessons from the Treaty Fatigue. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/9744/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11008
2020-01-09T21:21:05Z
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Exports and productivity – comparable evidence for 14 countries. NBB Working Papers No. 128, 13 February 2008
International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, The.
EU-Latin America
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
U.K.
China
international trade
Consisting of teams working with firm-leve data, the International Study Group on Exports and Productivity has used comparable micro-level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. The overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from the literature: exporters are more productive than non-exporters when observed and unobserved heterogeneity are controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but almost no evidence in favour of the learning-by-exporting hypothesis. The authors document that the exporter premia differ considerably across countries in identically specified empirical models. In a meta-analysis of the results they find that countries which are more open and have more effective government tend to report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per se does not appear to offer an explanation for the observed cross-country differences.
2008-02
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11008/1/wp128En.pdf
International Study Group on Exports and Productivity, The. (2008) Exports and productivity – comparable evidence for 14 countries. NBB Working Papers No. 128, 13 February 2008. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11008/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11057
2011-02-15T23:12:24Z
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74797065733D776F726B696E677061706572
The Treaty of Lisbon and the Irish Impasse. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 8, No. 18, August 2008
Lorca, Francisco J.
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
Lisbon Treaty
No abstract.
2008-08
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11057/1/LorcaFranciscoLisbonLong08edi.pdf
Lorca, Francisco J. (2008) The Treaty of Lisbon and the Irish Impasse. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 8, No. 18, August 2008. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11057/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11100
2011-02-15T23:12:40Z
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74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
Inching towards a Second Irish Referendum. CEPS Commentaries, 15 December 2008
Kurpas, Sebastian
Kaczyński, Piotr Maciej.
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
Lisbon Treaty
Since the Irish rejection of the Treaty of Lisbon on 12 June 2008, the European decision-making machinery has done what it does best: cooling down a hot political debate and carefully building a consensus. The European Summit has now determined what concessions will be made to the Irish in exchange for their ratification of the treaty: the College of Commissioners will continue to comprise one member per country beyond the year 2014 and Ireland will receive “necessary legal guarantees” on certain sensitive matters. Despite this progress, however, the authors warn that it may prove inadequate to extract approval from the Irish in a second referendum.
2008-01
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11100/1/1767[1].pdf
Kurpas, Sebastian and Kaczyński, Piotr Maciej. (2008) Inching towards a Second Irish Referendum. CEPS Commentaries, 15 December 2008. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11100/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11101
2011-02-15T23:12:40Z
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74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
Ireland’s plan to resurrect the Lisbon Treaty to be unveiled at the Brussels summit. CEPS Commentaries, 4 December 2008
O’Brennan, John.
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
Lisbon Treaty
Ireland’s fiscal position has severely degraded by the global financial crisis and the Government has been forced to introduce austerity measures not seen for a quarter of a century. Now, in advance of the European Council’s December summit, expectations are growing that the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen will provide a clear roadmap for an Irish solution to the EU’s constitutional dilemma and enable the EU to resolve the impasse created by the Irish electorate’s rejection of the Treaty in June.
2008-12
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11101/1/1763.pdf
O’Brennan, John. (2008) Ireland’s plan to resurrect the Lisbon Treaty to be unveiled at the Brussels summit. CEPS Commentaries, 4 December 2008. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11101/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11336
2011-02-15T23:13:59Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D46:46303036
7375626A656374733D46:46303236
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7375626A656374733D46:46303130
74797065733D776F726B696E677061706572
Consumer Bankruptcy Regimes and Credit Default in the US and Europe: A comparative study. CEPS Working Document No. 318, 27 July 2009
Gerhardt, Maria.
Ireland
France
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Spain
Germany
U.K.
EU-US
capital, goods, services, workers
Consumer insolvency is a topic that has gained much prominence in the context of the financial crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. The number of bankruptcy filings has soared in recent years, and is not expected to go down in the near future. This CEPS Working Document explains the consumer bankruptcy procedures in the US and five European countries with quite different approaches: the UK, Ireland, Germany, France and Spain. Since there is no law on consumer insolvency in Italy, the situation in this country is outlined only briefly. When considering current statistics on consumer bankruptcies so far, the first effects of the economic crisis can be observed, so the question arises as to what is yet to come and which bankruptcy procedures are the most appropriate. After a short presentation of each insolvency procedure, the developments in national bankruptcy numbers are traced, highlighting striking developments in the different countries studied here.
2009-07
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11336/1/1887.pdf
Gerhardt, Maria. (2009) Consumer Bankruptcy Regimes and Credit Default in the US and Europe: A comparative study. CEPS Working Document No. 318, 27 July 2009. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11336/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11475
2011-02-15T23:14:52Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303239
7375626A656374733D44:44303033:4C6973626F6E547265617479
7375626A656374733D46:46303037
7375626A656374733D46:46303137
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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74797065733D776F726B696E677061706572
Ratification of the Lisbon Treaty: Problems not only in Ireland. EPIN Working Papers No. 18, September 2008
Kaczyński, Piotr Maciej
Kurpas, Sebastian
ó Broin, Peadar.
Ireland
Czech Republic
European elections/voting behavior
Germany
Lisbon Treaty
Poland
After the Irish voters rejected the Treaty of Lisbon in a public referendum on 12 June 2008, European Union leaders decided nevertheless to continue the ratification process, with the aim of achieving 26 ratifications by mid-October 2008. This plan failed, however, due to rising political and legal problems in a number of countries. Apart from its rejection in Ireland, the Treaty of Lisbon’s ratification is now being contested in the Constitutional Courts of Germany and the Czech Republic and it faces political challenges in the Czech Republic and Poland. This paper presents the state of play of the ratification process and the national debates in the four countries where the treaty’s future is most called into question: Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.
2008-09
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11475/1/1716.pdf
Kaczyński, Piotr Maciej and Kurpas, Sebastian and ó Broin, Peadar. (2008) Ratification of the Lisbon Treaty: Problems not only in Ireland. EPIN Working Papers No. 18, September 2008. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11475/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11578
2014-04-08T13:34:02Z
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74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
spotlight europe 2009/09, September 2009: Ireland's second attempt
Hierlemann, Dominik.
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
Lisbon Treaty
Irish voters are about to go to the polls for a second time to decide the fate of the Treaty of Lisbon. On 2 October the outcome of the referendum will determine whether or not the EU, after eight years of debate and numer-ous false starts, can finally adopt a new basic treaty. What are the chances of success? Here are a brief look at the ratification process, the mood in Ireland, and the consequences of the economic crisis-and five scenarios of what might happen if there is another No vote.
2009-09
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11578/1/spotlight_europe_%2D_Ireland's_Second_Attempt.pdf
Hierlemann, Dominik. (2009) spotlight europe 2009/09, September 2009: Ireland's second attempt. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11578/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11579
2011-02-15T23:15:26Z
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74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
spotlight Europe 2009/09, September 2009: Irlands zweiter Versuch. = Ireland's second attempt
Hierlemann, Dominik.
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
Lisbon Treaty
No abstract.
2009-09
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11579/1/xcms_bst_dms_29567_29583_2.pdf
Hierlemann, Dominik. (2009) spotlight Europe 2009/09, September 2009: Irlands zweiter Versuch. = Ireland's second attempt. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11579/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11588
2011-02-15T23:15:29Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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Plan B. CEPS Commentaries, 16 June 2008
Gros, Daniel.
Ireland
Lisbon Treaty
CEPS Director Daniel Gros argues in this Commentary that the solution to the 'Irish crisis' could be simple if the other countries are really determined to go ahead. At the forthcoming European Council meeting in Brussels, he suggests that member countries could simply sign the consolidated text of the Treaties which results from the incorporation of the amendments of the Lisbon Treaty into the old Treaty. While the Irish government could not put its signature to such a Treaty at this time, it could be invited by the European Council to submit a set of protocols, or opt-outs, which would allow it to sign the treaty and have a reasonable certainty that the next referendum would have a different outcome. In the meantime, the consolidated text would thus be signed by 26 member states (perhaps 25 if the Czech government judges that ratification is difficult). This consolidated text, representing a new coherent treaty, could enter into force once it is ratified by all the 26 countries that have signed it now. Ratification of the consolidated text should be possible to achieve within a short period of time as no further referenda would be necessary and all 26 members (25?) are committed to ratifying the Lisbon Treaty using parliamentary procedures (with 18 having already done so).
2008-06
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11588/1/1674[1].pdf
Gros, Daniel. (2008) Plan B. CEPS Commentaries, 16 June 2008. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11588/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:11708
2011-02-15T23:16:17Z
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Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty: Quo Vadis?. CEPS Policy Brief No. 176, October 2008
O'Brennan, John.
Ireland
Lisbon Treaty
This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on ratification and to provide policy-makers with an assessment of the options before them. Before proceeding to outline those options this paper sets out four key assumptions upon which the arguments made are based. It also outlines the importance of securing a clarification of the constitutional position via a Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Lisbon Treaty and the desirability of finding EU agreement on the right of all 27 member states to permanent representation on the European Commission.
2008-10
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/11708/1/1741.pdf
O'Brennan, John. (2008) Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty: Quo Vadis?. CEPS Policy Brief No. 176, October 2008. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/11708/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:12372
2011-02-15T23:20:15Z
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The margins of labour costs adjustment: Survey evidence from European firms. National Bank of Belgium Working Paper No. 183, November 2009
Babecky, Jan
Du Caju, Philip
Kosma, Theodora
Lawless, Martina
Messina, Julian
Room, Tairi.
Ireland
Belgium
Italy
Estonia
Lithuania
Slovenia
France
Greece
Poland
Hungary
Portugal
labour/labor
Czech Republic
business/private economic activity
Firms have multiple options at the time of adjusting their wage bills. However, previous literature has mainly focused on base wages. We broaden the analysis beyond downward rigidity in base wages by investigating the use of other margins of labour cost adjustment at the firm level. Using data from a unique survey, we find that firms make frequent use of other, more flexible, components of compensation to adjust the cost of labour. Changes in bonuses and non-pay benefits are some of the potential margins firms use to reduce costs. We also show how the margins of adjustment chosen are affected by firm and worker characteristics.
2009-11
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/12372/1/wp183En.pdf
Babecky, Jan and Du Caju, Philip and Kosma, Theodora and Lawless, Martina and Messina, Julian and Room, Tairi. (2009) The margins of labour costs adjustment: Survey evidence from European firms. National Bank of Belgium Working Paper No. 183, November 2009. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/12372/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:14455
2014-08-01T02:56:50Z
7374617475733D707562
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7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
The Constrained Left and its Adverse Impact on Losers of Globalization. IHS Political Science Series No. 120, May 2010
Hubscher, Evelyne.
Ireland
welfare state
employment/labour market
Germany
general
political parties
unions
globalisation/globalization
This paper examines the political mechanisms of welfare state policymaking in two countries with differing levels of institutional and political constraints, Germany and Ireland. The study analyzes the joint impact of political constraints and varying party governments on different dimensions of labor market policymaking. It comes to the conclusion that left-wing governments must cut spending more to accommodate the conservative opposition and gain its support when political and institutional constraints are high. To simultaneously ensure the support from pivotal extra-parliamentary actors, namely labor unions that are closely linked to the governing party, the left has to further compensate the unions' prime constituency, which is the well-integrated core workforce. The privileged treatment of labor market 'insiders' by left-wing governments in countries with high political constraints comes at the expenses of labor market 'outsiders'. Left-wing party governments in countries where political constraints are low are better able to address the needs of broader segments of society.
2010-05
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/14455/1/pw_120.pdf
Hubscher, Evelyne. (2010) The Constrained Left and its Adverse Impact on Losers of Globalization. IHS Political Science Series No. 120, May 2010. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/14455/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:14459
2011-02-15T23:33:49Z
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Inter-industry wage differentials in EU countries: What do cross-country time-varying data add to the picture? National Bank of Belgium Working Paper, No. 189, April 2010
du Caju, Philip
Katay, Gabor
Lamo, Ana
Nicolitsas, Daphne
Poelhekke, Steven.
Ireland
Belgium
Italy
employment/unemployment
Spain
Netherlands
Germany
industrial/labour relations
Greece
Hungary
This paper documents the existence of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for eight EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain) at two different points in time (in general, 1995 and 2002). It then looks into possible explanations for the main patterns observed. The analysis uses the European Structure of Earnings Survey (SES), an internationally-harmonised matched employer-employee dataset, to estimate inter-industry wage differentials conditional on a rich set of employee, employer and job characteristics. After investigating the possibility that unobservable employee characteristics lie behind the conditional wage differentials, a hypothesis which cannot be accepted, the paper considers the role of institutional features, as well as industry structure and performance in explaining inter-industry wage differentials. The results suggest that inter-industry wage differentials are consistent with rent-sharing mechanisms and that rent-sharing is more likely in industries with firm-level collective agreements and with higher collective agreement coverage.
2010
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/14459/1/wp189En.pdf
du Caju, Philip and Katay, Gabor and Lamo, Ana and Nicolitsas, Daphne and Poelhekke, Steven. (2010) Inter-industry wage differentials in EU countries: What do cross-country time-varying data add to the picture? National Bank of Belgium Working Paper, No. 189, April 2010. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/14459/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:14517
2011-02-15T23:34:14Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303038
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7375626A656374733D46:46303138
7375626A656374733D46:46303233
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7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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Greek burdens ensure some Pigs won't fly. CEPS Commentaries, 1 February 2010
Gros, Daniel.
Portugal
Ireland
capital, goods, services, workers
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Spain
Greece
This Commentary by Daniel Gros looks at the acronym recently coined by financial markets to sum up troubled eurozone states – 'Pigs', for Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain – and finds it misleading, given its preoccupation with fiscal policy. In determining the sustainability of public debt, he argues that one should not look only, perhaps not even mainly, at today's fiscal accounts, but at the resource balance for the entire country. It is one thing to provide financing to a country that is generating strong internal cash flows and got into trouble only because of excessive investment (the case of Ireland and Spain). But it is quite a different proposition to prop up one whose equity is being eroded because internal cash flow is not even sufficient to maintain the capital stock (the case of Greece and Portugal).
2010-02
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/14517/1/Some_pigs_won't_fly_e%2Dversion.pdf
Gros, Daniel. (2010) Greek burdens ensure some Pigs won't fly. CEPS Commentaries, 1 February 2010. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/14517/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:14584
2011-05-05T21:11:13Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303038
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7375626A656374733D46:46303138
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7375626A656374733D46:46303233
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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Adjustment Difficulties in the GIPSY Club. CEPS Working Document No. 326, March 2010
Gros, Daniel.
Portugal
Ireland
Italy
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Spain
Greece
This paper describes the key economic variables and mechanisms that will determine the adjustment process in those euro area countries now under financial market pressure. (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and ItalY = GIPSY). The key finding is that the adjustment will be particularly difficult for Greece (and Portugal) because these are two relatively closed economies with low savings rates. Both of these countries are facing a solvency problem because they combine high debt levels with low growth and high interest rates. Fiscal and external adjustment is thus required for sustainability, not just to satisfy the Stability Pact. By contrast, Ireland and Spain face more of a liquidity than a solvency problem. Italy seems to have a much better starting position on all accounts. Fiscal adjustment alone will not be sufficient to ensure sustainability. Without significant reductions in labour costs, these economies will face years of stagnation at best. Especially in the case of Greece, it is imperative that the cuts in public sector wages are transmitted to the entire economy in order to restore competitiveness, and thus ensure that export growth can become a vital safety valve. Without an adjustment of wages in the private sector, the adjustment will become so difficult that failure cannot be excluded.
2010-03
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/14584/1/No__326_Gros_on_Gypsy_problems_with_postscript.pdf
Gros, Daniel. (2010) Adjustment Difficulties in the GIPSY Club. CEPS Working Document No. 326, March 2010. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/14584/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:15449
2011-02-15T23:40:53Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303038
7375626A656374733D46:46303138
7375626A656374733D46:46303233
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7375626A656374733D46:46303130
74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
The Eurozone crisis and its effects on citizens' trust in national parliaments. CEPS Commentary, 8 December 2010
Roth, Felix.
Portugal
Ireland
Spain
public opinion
EMU/EMS/euro
Greece
Citing evidence that the levels of net trust in the national parliaments have dropped to -50% in three of the four troubled periphery eurozone countries (Ireland, Spain and Greece), this Commentary warns that the European and national policy-makers’ strategy of the three no’s – no bail-out, no default and no exit –appears to threaten political stability in these countries.
2010-12
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/15449/1/Effect_of_the_crisis_on_trust.pdf
Roth, Felix. (2010) The Eurozone crisis and its effects on citizens' trust in national parliaments. CEPS Commentary, 8 December 2010. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/15449/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:15457
2011-02-15T23:40:56Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303130
74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
The seniority conundrum: bail out countries but bail in private, short-term creditors? CEPS Commentary, 6 December 2010
Gros, Daniel.
Ireland
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Despite its large size relative to the small Irish economy, the bailout announced by the Eurogroup following its meeting of 28 November 2010 is not working, as evidenced by the continuing rise in risk premiums. CEPS Director Daniel Gros argues in this commentary that part of the problem lies in a seemingly innocuous provision in the proposed permanent successor to the current European Financial Stability Facility in 2013. The argument is tricky, but at the heart of the problem lies the insistence that rescue financing is senior to private debt while simultaneously ruling out rescheduling of short-term debt.
2010-12
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/15457/1/Dec_DG_on_the_Seniority_Conundrum.pdf
Gros, Daniel. (2010) The seniority conundrum: bail out countries but bail in private, short-term creditors? CEPS Commentary, 6 December 2010. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/15457/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:15767
2011-02-15T23:42:52Z
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7375626A656374733D46:46303038
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7375626A656374733D46:46303138
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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Debt reduction without default? CEPS Policy Brief No. 233/February 2011
Gros, Daniel
Mayer, Thomas.
Portugal
Ireland
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Greece
This paper proposes a two-step, market-based approach to debt reduction: · Step 1. The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) would offer holders of debt of the countries with an EFSF programme (probably Greece, Ireland and Portugal = GIP) an exchange into EFSF paper at the market price prior to their entry into an EFSF-funded programme. The offer would be valid for 90 days. Banks would be forced in the context of the ongoing stress tests to write down even their banking book and thus would have an incentive to accept the offer. · Step 2. Once the EFSF had acquired most of the GIP debt, it would assess debt sustainability country by country. If the market price discount at which it acquired the bonds is enough to ensure sustainability, the EFSF will write down the nominal value of its claims to this amount, provided the country agrees to additional adjustment efforts (and, in some cases, asset sales). If under a central scenario this discount is not enough to ensure sustainability, the EFSF might agree on a lower interest rate, but with GDP warrants to participate in the upside. A key condition for this approach to succeed in restoring access to private capital markets is that the EFSF claims are not made senior to the remaining claims and the new private bondholders. EFSF support must be comparable to an injection of equity into the country. While the EFSF concentrates on the exchange of the stock of bonds, the IMF could fund the remaining deficits in the usual way with bridge financing, until the fiscal adjustment is completed. The ECB would of course immediately stop its ‘Securities Market Programme’, which would have lost its raison d’être.
2011-02
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/15767/1/Policy_Brief_No_233_Gros_%26_Mayer_on_the_EMF_dilemma.pdf
Gros, Daniel and Mayer, Thomas. (2011) Debt reduction without default? CEPS Policy Brief No. 233/February 2011. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/15767/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:31784
2011-05-05T21:12:34Z
oai:aei.pitt.edu:31785
2011-05-05T21:11:13Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D46:46303038
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7375626A656374733D46:46303138
7375626A656374733D46:46303131
7375626A656374733D46:46303233
7375626A656374733D46:46303130
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Adjustment Difficulties and debt overhangs in the Eurozone periphery. CEPS Working Document No. 347, May 2011
Gros, Daniel.
Alcidi, Cinzia.
Portugal
Ireland
Italy
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Spain
Greece
This paper describes four key drivers behind the adjustment difficulties in the periphery of the eurozone:
• The adjustment will be particularly difficult for Greece and Portugal, as two relatively closed economies with low savings rates. Both of these countries combine high external debt levels with low growth rates, which suggest they are facing a solvency problem. In both countries fiscal adjustment is a necessary condition for overall sustainability, but it not sufficient by itself. A sharp cut in domestic consumption (or an unrealistically large jump in exports) is required to quickly establish external sustainability. An internal devaluation (a cut in nominal wages in the private sector) is unavoidable in the longer run. Without such this adjustment in the private sector, even continuing large-scale provision of official funding will not stave off default.
• Ireland’s problems are different. They stem from the exceptionally large losses in the Irish banks, which were taken on by the national government, leading to an explosion of government debt. However, the Irish sovereign should be solvent because the country has little net foreign debt.
• Spain faces a similar problem as Ireland, although its foreign debt is somewhat higher but its construction bubble has been less extreme. The government should thus also be solvent, although further losses in the banking system seem unavoidable.
• Italy seems to have a better starting position on almost on all accounts. But its domestic savings rate has deteriorated substantially over the last decade.
2011-05
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/31785/4/WD_347_Gros_%26_Alcidi_GIPSY_update.pdf
Gros, Daniel. and Alcidi, Cinzia. (2011) Adjustment Difficulties and debt overhangs in the Eurozone periphery. CEPS Working Document No. 347, May 2011. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/31785/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:31861
2011-05-16T14:06:57Z
7374617475733D707562
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7375626A656374733D46:46303130
74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
How to make Ireland solvent. CEPS Commentary, 13 May 2011
Gros, Daniel.
Ireland
capital, goods, services, workers
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Proclaiming that Ireland is not Argentina, Daniel Gros shows in this Commentary how the Irish government can avoid the fate of Argentina, which defaulted in 2001, by mobilizing the significant private foreign assets held by the country’s institutions, primarily pensions and life insurance companies.
2011-05
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/31861/1/DG_on_Making_Ireland_solvent.pdf
Gros, Daniel. (2011) How to make Ireland solvent. CEPS Commentary, 13 May 2011. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/31861/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:31862
2011-05-16T14:12:24Z
7374617475733D707562
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7375626A656374733D46:46303038
7375626A656374733D44:44303031:65636F6E6F6D696366696E616E6369616C61666661697273:6663723230303839
7375626A656374733D46:46303138
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7375626A656374733D46:46303130
74797065733D706F6C6963797061706572
Sovereign debt vs foreign debt in the Eurozone. CEPS Commentary, 12 May 2011
Gros, Daniel.
international economy
Greece
Ireland
Portugal
EMU/EMS/euro
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
This Commentary argues that the current crisis in the eurozone periphery is really about foreign debt, not sovereign debt and that the single-minded concentration of the EU and the IMF on fiscal adjustment in the EU periphery is misguided. For Greece, fiscal adjustment is undeniably the key issue. For Portugal, however, the key problem is the private sector’s continuing external deficit. Ireland is different again, as it has very little foreign debt and will soon run a current-account surplus.
2011-05
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/31862/1/DG_on_Debt_%26_Taxes_in_EZ%2D1.pdf
http://shop.ceps.eu/book/sovereign-debt-vs-foreign-debt-eurozone
Gros, Daniel. (2011) Sovereign debt vs foreign debt in the Eurozone. CEPS Commentary, 12 May 2011. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/31862/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:32062
2019-12-10T20:47:05Z
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A torrent of mortgage defaults: a possible effect of the eurozone debt crisis. ECRI Commentary No. 5 (May 2011)
Fiorante, Angelo.
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
Spain
capital, goods, services, workers
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
This ECRI Commentary takes a closer look at the mortgage situation of households in Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain – countries whose economic condition have been under the magnifying glass throughout the eurozone debt crisis. The credit markets in these countries have witnessed fast-paced development, with the credit extended to households having increased considerably during recent decades. What will be the impact on average citizens when they start to feel their belts tightened as a result of their government’s insolvency or liquidity problems? A torrent of mortgage defaults may follow the euro debt crisis, if appropriate measures are not taken to both resolve the sovereign debt crisis and protect borrowers’ ability to repay their loans.
2011-05
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/32062/1/ECRI_Commentary_no5_by_Fiorante_%2D_Final.pdf
http://shop.ceps.eu/book/torrent-mortgage-defaults-possible-effect-eurozone-debt-crisis
Fiorante, Angelo. (2011) A torrent of mortgage defaults: a possible effect of the eurozone debt crisis. ECRI Commentary No. 5 (May 2011). [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/32062/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:32238
2011-08-04T20:56:26Z
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The EFSF as a European Monetary Fund: Does it have enough resources? CEPS Commentary, 22 July 2011
Gros, Daniel
Giovannini., Alessandro
European Financial Stability Facility
Ireland
Portugal
In the immediate aftermath of yesterday’s European Council’s decision to effectively transform the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) into a European Monetary Fund, this CEPS Commentary explores whether the EFSF has enough resources to become a credible deterrent against a recurrence of the recent turbulences in the euro area sovereign debt markets. The authors argue that an increase in lending capacity of the EFSF, which has been agreed politically but has not yet been fully ratified, is urgently needed. Moreover, they warn that even the ‘full’ EFSF of €440 billion would quickly reach its limits should Portugal and Ireland not be able to regain market access soon.
2011-07
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/32238/1/DG_%26_AG_Commentary_on_the_EFSF_as_a_EMF.pdf
http://shop.ceps.eu/book/efsf-european-monetary-fund-does-it-have-enough-resources
Gros, Daniel and Giovannini., Alessandro (2011) The EFSF as a European Monetary Fund: Does it have enough resources? CEPS Commentary, 22 July 2011. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/32238/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:32245
2011-08-04T18:23:39Z
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Britain, Ireland and Schengen: Time for a smarter bargain on visas. CEPS Policy Brief No. 249, August 2011
Emerson, Michael.
Ireland
U.K.
Schengen/Prum/border control/freedom to travel
Given Britain’s desire to maintain its own border controls, it will not join the EU’s passport-free ‘Schengen’ area in the foreseeable future. Ireland also has to stay out because it shares a common travel area with the UK.
But there is now mounting evidence that this situation hurts tourism and businesses in Britain and Ireland. Non-European travellers can move freely between Schengen countries with a single visa, and many skip the further hassle of getting visas to visit Britain or Ireland. Already the Schengen area has an agreement to facilitate Chinese group tourism, which is growing fast, and from which the UK and Ireland are excluded.
This problem could be overcome if Britain, Ireland and the Schengen countries would agree on ‘mutual recognition’ of the visas they issue, without the UK or Ireland having to scrap their border controls.
2011-08
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/32245/1/PB249_ME_on_Schengen.pdf
Emerson, Michael. (2011) Britain, Ireland and Schengen: Time for a smarter bargain on visas. CEPS Policy Brief No. 249, August 2011. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/32245/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:32454
2012-12-11T16:10:52Z
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Lisbon 'Fado': the European Union under reform.
Bickerton, Chris
Boening, Astrid
de Pitta e Cunha, Paulo
Dehousse, Renaud
Domínguez, Roberto
de Vidales, Covadonga Ferrer Martín
Kanner, Aimee
Kreidman, Adam
Van Langenhove, Luk
Laursen, Finn
Lorca, Francisco J.
Lorca-Susino, María
Marchesi, Daniele
Silva Morais, Luís
Roy, Joaquín
Schmidt, Vivien A.
Ziller, Jacques
EU-Mediterranean/Union for the Mediterranean
regionalism, international
EU-Latin America
European Convention
Ireland
Lisbon Treaty
EMU/EMS/euro
general
European elections/voting behavior
To address the uncertainties surrounding the
Treaty of Lisbon, this book examines several issues
from various angles. Regardless of the results
of the second referendum in Ireland and the
pending ratifications in Poland, the Czech
Republic and Germany, the European Union (EU)
will not be the same after the Lisbon Treaty.
If it comes into effect, Europeans will enter into
a new stage in the deepening of the integration
process; if it is rejected, the first decade
of the 21st Century will represent a period of
institutional stagnation in Europe’s integration.
Nonetheless, the chapters in this book share the
consensus that, despite its limitations,
the Lisbon Treaty will make the EU decision
making process more efficient, enhance regional
democracy and strengthenits international voice.
Roy, Joaquin.
Dominguez, Roberto.
2009
Book
PeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/32454/1/Lisbon_Fado%2Dtextfinal%2Dall.pdf
http://www6.miami.edu/eucenter/
Bickerton, Chris and Boening, Astrid and de Pitta e Cunha, Paulo and Dehousse, Renaud and Domínguez, Roberto and de Vidales, Covadonga Ferrer Martín and Kanner, Aimee and Kreidman, Adam and Van Langenhove, Luk and Laursen, Finn and Lorca, Francisco J. and Lorca-Susino, María and Marchesi, Daniele and Silva Morais, Luís and Roy, Joaquín and Schmidt, Vivien A. and Ziller, Jacques (2009) Lisbon 'Fado': the European Union under reform. UNSPECIFIED.
http://aei.pitt.edu/32454/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:32516
2011-10-03T17:59:58Z
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How effective and legitimate is the European semester? Increasing the role of the European parliament. Bruegel Working Paper 2011/09, September 2011
Hallerberg, Mark.
Marzinotto, Benedicta.
Wolff, Guntram B.
European Parliament
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
The European Semester is a new institutional process that provides EU member states with ex-ante guidance on fiscal and structural objectives. The Semester’s goals are ambitious and it is still uncertain how it will fit into the new EU economic governance framework.
We find that member states are only slowly internalising the new procedure. Furthermore, the Semester has so far lacked legitimacy due to the minor role assigned to the European Parliament, the marginal involvement of national parliaments and the lack of transparency of the process at some stages.
Finally, there remains room to clarify the implications from a unified legal text. In fact, diluting the legal separation of recommendations on National Reform Programmes and Council opinions on Stability and Convergence Programmes may compromise effective surveillance and governance. The European Parliament has an important role to play. It needs hold the Commission and the Council accountable. This and the overall objective of enhancing the new procedure’s effectiveness and legitimacy can be done by means of a regular Economic Dialogue on the Semester.
2011-09
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/32516/1/How_effective_and_legitimate_is_the_European_semester__Increasing_role_of_the_European_parliament_(English)%2D1.pdf
http://www.bruegel.org/publications/publication-detail/publication/612-how-effective-and-legitimate-is-the-european-semester-increasing-role-of-the-european-parliament/
Hallerberg, Mark. and Marzinotto, Benedicta. and Wolff, Guntram B. (2011) How effective and legitimate is the European semester? Increasing the role of the European parliament. Bruegel Working Paper 2011/09, September 2011. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/32516/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:32599
2011-10-23T16:53:23Z
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Trade Agreements, Multifunctionality and EU Agriculture. CEPS Paperbacks. December 2006
Kaditi, Eleni
Swinnen, Johan
Salamon, Petra
dell’Aquila, Crescenzo
Huan-Niemi, Ellen
Jensen, Hans
Kurzweil, Marianne
von Ledebur, Oliver
Niemi, Jyrki
Kuiper, Marijke
Yu, Wusheng
Brockmeier, Martina
Klepper, Rainer
Pelikan, Janine
van Tongeren, Frank
Guyomard, Hervé
Dwyer, Janet
Lehtonen, Heikki
Lankoski, Jussi
Doucha, Tomáš
Foltýn, Ivan
Donnellan, Trevor
Hanrahan, Kevin
Psaltopoulos, Demitrios
Balamou, Eudokia
Alexopoulos, Yiorgos
Baldock, David
Damianos, Dimitris
agriculture policy
EU-Mediterranean/Union for the Mediterranean
EU-North Africa/Maghreb
Finland
Greece
Ireland
Czech Republic
trade policy
international trade
This book examines the repercussions of the EU’s agricultural policies and its regional, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements. It presents the analyses and findings of the European Network of Agricultural and Rural Policy Research Institutes (ENARPRI), a unique collaboration of experts from across the EU. Their contributions to this volume focus on trade flows and economic development, exploring how the agreements affect the EU and the other countries and regions involved.
The importance of a sustainable agricultural sector, with its multifunctional character in support of the environment and the livelihood of rural communities, is increasingly recognised. Thus, the book also examines the correlation between the EU’s policies and its trade commitments within the framework of multifunctionality and sustainable development. Different approaches are used to predict and compare the multifunctionality effects of various agricultural policy reforms in several country case studies.
Centre for European Policy Studies
Kaditi, Eleni
Swinnen, Johan
2006-12
Book
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/32599/1/38._Trade_agreements%2C_multifunctionality%2C_and_EU_Agriculture.pdf
http://www.ceps.eu/book/trade-agreements-multifunctionality-and-eu-agriculture
Kaditi, Eleni and Swinnen, Johan and Salamon, Petra and dell’Aquila, Crescenzo and Huan-Niemi, Ellen and Jensen, Hans and Kurzweil, Marianne and von Ledebur, Oliver and Niemi, Jyrki and Kuiper, Marijke and Yu, Wusheng and Brockmeier, Martina and Klepper, Rainer and Pelikan, Janine and van Tongeren, Frank and Guyomard, Hervé and Dwyer, Janet and Lehtonen, Heikki and Lankoski, Jussi and Doucha, Tomáš and Foltýn, Ivan and Donnellan, Trevor and Hanrahan, Kevin and Psaltopoulos, Demitrios and Balamou, Eudokia and Alexopoulos, Yiorgos and Baldock, David and Damianos, Dimitris (2006) Trade Agreements, Multifunctionality and EU Agriculture. CEPS Paperbacks. December 2006. Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Paperbacks <http://aei.pitt.edu/view/series/SMCEPSPaperbacks.html> . Centre for European Policy Studies. ISBN 9789290796725
http://aei.pitt.edu/32599/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:32806
2011-11-02T20:32:24Z
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On wage formation: wage flexibility and wage coordination: A focus on the wage impact of productivity in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United States. MPRA Paper No. 31102, 29 June 2011
Peeters, Marga
Den Reijer, Ard
EU-US
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Portugal
Spain
employment/unemployment
historical development of EC (pre-1986)
This paper discusses the endeavours of policy makers to come to some degree of wage coordination
among EU countries, aiming at aligning wage growth with labour productivity growth at the national
levels. In this context, we analyse the wage and productivity developments in Germany, the European
Union’s periphery countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain along with the US for the period 1980-
2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the contributions of
prices, unemployment, replacement rates and taxes by means of an econometrically estimated non-linear
wage equation resulting from a wage bargaining model. We further study the downward rigidities of
wages in depth. The findings show that in past times of low productivity, price inflation and reductions in
unemployment put significant upward pressure on wage growth, also in the low inflationary period of the
2000s. Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain are far from aligning wage growth with productivity growth.
German productivity is a major German wage determinant, but surely not the only one. To steer wages,
policy makers can effectively use the replacement rate.
2011-06
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/32806/1/MPRA_paper_31102.pdf
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31102/
Peeters, Marga and Den Reijer, Ard (2011) On wage formation: wage flexibility and wage coordination: A focus on the wage impact of productivity in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United States. MPRA Paper No. 31102, 29 June 2011. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/32806/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:33035
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The Malleable Politics of Activation Reform: the ‘Hartz’ Reforms in Comparative Perspective
Boyle, Nigel
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
U.K.
employment/unemployment
labour/labor
In this paper we compare the Hartz reforms in Germany with three other major labor market activation reforms carried out by center-left governments. Two of the cases, Britain and Germany, involved radically neoliberal “mandatory” activation policies, whereas in the Netherlands and Ireland radical activation change took a very different “enabling” form. Two of the cases, Ireland and Germany, were
path deviant, Britain and the Netherlands were path dependent. We explain why Germany underwent
“mandatory” and path deviant activation by focusing on two features of the policy discourse. First, the
coordinative (or elite level) discourse was “ensilaged” sealing policy formation off from dissenting actors
and, until belatedly unwrapped for enactment, from the wider communicative (legitimating) discourse.
This is what the British and German cases had in common and the result was reform that viewed long term
unemployment as personal failure rather than market failure. Second, although the German policy-making
system lacked the “authoritative” features that facilitated reform in the British case, and the Irish policymaking
system lacked the “reflexive” mechanisms that facilitated reform in the Dutch case, in both
Germany and Ireland the communicative discourses were reshaped by novel institutional vehicles (the
Hartz Commission in the German case, FÁS in the Irish case) that served to fundamentally alter systemconstitutive
perceptions about policy. In the Irish and German cases “government by commission”
created a realignment of advocacy coalitions with one coalition acquiring a new, ideologically-dominant
and path deviating narrative. The findings suggest that major reform of labor market and welfare state
policy may be much more malleable than previously thought.
2009
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/33035/1/boyle._nigel.pdf
http://www.euce.org/eusa2009/papers.php
Boyle, Nigel (2009) The Malleable Politics of Activation Reform: the ‘Hartz’ Reforms in Comparative Perspective. In: UNSPECIFIED.
http://aei.pitt.edu/33035/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:33055
2012-08-19T21:33:22Z
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After Enlargement - Europe’s new migration system and its hidden political economy of immigration
Favell, Adrian
EU-US
Denmark
Ireland
Italy
Spain
U.K.
immigration policy
Because of an overiding focus on policy and political talk, rather than the underlying social and economic phenomena, scholars typically underestimate the importance of underlying demographics and labour market dynamics on immigration politics in Europe. Despite rhetoric about “fortress Europe” and fears of “floods” to richer nations, flows have generally been demand driven, and have therefore been drawn by European nations with the most open and informal labour markets – such as Britain, Ireland, Italy and Spain – rather than more highly regulated welfare states such as Denmark. They are also more likely to be circular and temporary than one way immigration. I discuss the desirability of the apparently inevitable trend in Europe towards a more US style international political economy that strongly parallels the migration system between the US and Mexico. This effectively has seen the emergence of a dual level governance system of immigration, in which “smoke and mirrors” style politics talks about controlled policing of borders and migration management, whereas the underlying trends are much less controlled and much more porous. I consider four possible scenarios for this “new migration system”, before concluding with evidence that suggests that the dominant trend in Europe is towards the emergence of a more regionalised system, in which West European societies come to rely on East European movers to fill secondary labour market needs in the service economy – in an exploitative fashion – as well as encouraging a more effective racial or ethnically-based exclusion of migrants from the south or further afield.
2009
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/33055/1/favell._adrian.pdf
http://www.euce.org/eusa2009/papers.php
Favell, Adrian (2009) After Enlargement - Europe’s new migration system and its hidden political economy of immigration. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/33055/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:33136
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Information and voting behaviour in European referendums: A missing link?
Siapkidou, Elli
France
Ireland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Spain
European elections/voting behavior
In recent years an increasing number of European governments have decided to hold referendums on European issues. Whether it is the Treaty of Nice, participation in EMU, the European Constitution or the Treaty of Lisbon, whether the referendum is legally required (e.g. Ireland) or government induced (e.g. France), the number of European
referendums has increased. This increase has been accompanied, more often than not, by negative outcomes. Starting with the Danish rejection of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) in 1992, there has been an increase in negative outcomes in European referendums. These negative outcomes, along with fall in public support (see Eurobarometers) and the rise of Eurosceptic parties across Europe have brought public opinion to the centre of the political and academic debate, casting doubts about the
resilience of the citizens’ “permissive consensus”. Whether it has become a “constraining dissensus” or not, the fact remains that there is a gap between Europe and its citizens and it seems to be widening.
Several rationales have been put forward to explain the European referendums’ outcomes, mainly focusing on each country at a time. Within this debate, this paper aims
to provide a holistic approach to voting in European referendums by exploring voting behaviour in five countries (Spain, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Ireland).
First, this paper will explore the motivations behind citizens’ negative or positive voting. Secondly, it will look into the relation between citizens’ levels of information and voting behaviour in European referendums. For this purpose, there will be a qualitative analysis
of the post-referendum Eurobarometers surveys, of the referendums in Spain, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg on the European Constitution and Ireland on the Treaty of Lisbon. The argument put forward will be that information levels play a crucial role in influencing the voting behaviour of European citizens, in that it is associated both with abstention and negative voting.
2009
Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/33136/1/siapkidou._elli.pdf
http://www.euce.org/eusa2009/papers.php
Siapkidou, Elli (2009) Information and voting behaviour in European referendums: A missing link? In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
http://aei.pitt.edu/33136/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:33334
2012-01-16T18:59:32Z
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A tale of three countries: recovery after banking crises. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2011/19, December 2011
Darvas, Zsolt
Ireland
Latvia
Iceland
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Iceland, Ireland and Latvia experienced similar developments before the crisis.
However, the crisis hit Latvia harder than any other country, and Ireland also suffered
heavily, while Iceland exited the crisis with the smallest fall in employment,
despite the greatest shock to the financial system.
• There were marked differences in policy mix: currency collapse in Iceland but not
in Latvia, letting banks fail in Iceland but not in Ireland, and the introduction of
strict capital controls only in Iceland. The speed of fiscal consolidation was fastest
in Latvia and slowest in Ireland. Recovery has started in all three countries.
• Iceland seems to have the right policy mix. Internal devaluation in Ireland and Latvia
through wage cuts did not work, because private-sector wages hardly changed.
Productivity increased significantly in Ireland and moderately in Latvia, but only
because employment fell more than output, with harmful social consequences.
• The experience with the collapse of the gigantic Icelandic banking system
suggests that letting banks fail when they had a faulty business model is the right
choice.
• There is a strong case for a European banking federation.
2011-12
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/33334/1/A_tale_of_three_countries__recovery_after_banking_crises_(English).pdf
http://www.bruegel.org/publications/publication-detail/publication/663-a-tale-of-three-countries-recovery-after-banking-crises/
Darvas, Zsolt (2011) A tale of three countries: recovery after banking crises. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2011/19, December 2011. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/33334/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:33373
2012-01-25T15:18:24Z
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Mispricing of Sovereign Risk and Multiple Equilibria in the Eurozone. CEPS Working Document No. 361, January 2012
De Grauwe, Paul.
Ji, Yuemei
Greece
Ireland
Portugal
Spain
EMU/EMS/euro
economic policy
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
This paper finds evidence that a significant part of the surge in the spreads of the PIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain) in the eurozone during 2010-11 was disconnected from underlying increases in the debt-to-GDP ratios, and was the result of negative market sentiments that became very strong since the end of 2010.
We also find evidence that after years of neglecting high government debt, investors became increasingly worried about this in the eurozone, and reacted by raising the spreads. No such worries developed in stand-alone countries despite the fact that debt-to-GDP ratios were equally high and increasing in these countries. We interpreted this evidence as validating the hypothesis formulated in De Grauwe (2011) according to which government bond markets in a monetary union are more fragile and more susceptible to self-fulfilling liquidity crises than in stand-alone countries.
We argue that the systematic mispricing of sovereign risk in the eurozone intensifies macroeconomic instability, leading to bubbles in good years and excessive austerity in bad years.
2012-01
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/33373/1/WD_No._361_De_Grauwe_%26_Ji_Multiple_Equilibria_in_EZ.pdf
http://shop.ceps.eu/book/mispricing-sovereign-risk-and-multiple-equilibria-eurozone
De Grauwe, Paul. and Ji, Yuemei (2012) Mispricing of Sovereign Risk and Multiple Equilibria in the Eurozone. CEPS Working Document No. 361, January 2012. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/33373/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:34328
2012-03-26T13:15:15Z
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Are banks affected by their holdings of government debt? Bruegel Working Paper 2012/07, 26 March 2012
Angeloni, Chiarra
Wolff, Guntram B.
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Spain
capital, goods, services, workers
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
The strong relation between sovereign and banking stress is frequently emphasised, especially since the start of the European sovereign debt crisis. This working paper sheds light on the determinants of the link. It studies the stock market performance and the holdings of government debt of the banks stress tested by the European Banking Authority in July and December 2011. A number of results stand out:
Banks’ holdings of the sovereign bonds of vulnerable countries generally decreased during the period December 2010 to September 2011.
The average stock market performance of each country’s banks was very uneven during 2011. The long-term refinancing operation (LTRO) had no material effect on banks’ stock market values.
Greek debt holdings had an effect on banks’ market values in the period July to October 2011 while after October this effect disappeared. Holdings of Italian and Irish debt had a material effect on banks’ market value in the period October to December 2011. Holdings of debt of other periphery countries, in particular Spain, were not an issue. The July PSI deal did not substantially affect the risk resulting from holdings of debt other than Greek debt.
The location of banks matters for their market value. This highlights the need to form a banking union in the euroarea.
2012-03
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/34328/1/(English).pdf
http://www.bruegel.org/publications/publication-detail/publication/717-are-banks-affected-by-their-holdings-of-government-debt/
Angeloni, Chiarra and Wolff, Guntram B. (2012) Are banks affected by their holdings of government debt? Bruegel Working Paper 2012/07, 26 March 2012. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/34328/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:34446
2012-04-03T18:29:09Z
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Sudden stops in the euro area. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2012/06, March 2012
Merler, Silvia
Pisani-Ferry, Jean
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
Spain
EMU/EMS/euro
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
The single currency was expected to make balance of payments irrelevant between the euro-area member states. This benign view has been challenged by recent developments, especially as imbalances between euro-area central banks have widened within the TARGET2 settlement system.
Current-account developments can be misleading as indicators of financial account developments in countries that receive significant official support. Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain experienced significant private-capital inflows from 2002 to 2007-09, followed by unambiguously massive outflows.
We show that such reversals qualify as ‘sudden stops’. Euro-area sudden-stop episodes were clustered in three periods: the global financial crisis, a period following the agreement of the Greek programme and summer 2011. The timeline suggests contagion effects were present.
We find evidence of substitution of the private capital flows with public
components. In particular, weak banks in distressed countries took up a major share of the central bank refinancing. The steady divergence of intra Eurosystem net balances mirrors this.
In the short term, TARGET2 imbalances could be addressed by tightening collateral requirements for central bank liquidity. For the longer term, the evidence that the euro area has been subject to internal balance-of-payment crises should be taken as a strong signal of weakness and as an invitation to reform its structures.
2012-03
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/34446/1/(English)%2D1.pdf
http://www.bruegel.org/publications/publication-detail/publication/718-sudden-stops-in-the-euro-area/
Merler, Silvia and Pisani-Ferry, Jean (2012) Sudden stops in the euro area. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2012/06, March 2012. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/34446/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:34448
2012-04-24T17:01:50Z
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Liquidity in times of crisis: even the ESM needs it. CEPS Policy Brief No. 265, March 2012
Gros, Daniel.
Mayer, Thomas
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
Spain
EMU/EMS/euro
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
This paper argues that the new permanent European rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), should
be provided with a liquidity backstop by having it registered as a bank – and be treated as such by the European Central Bank. If the crisis were to become acute again, the ESM would stand ready to intervene in secondary
markets, potentially with almost unlimited amounts of funding. Access to central bank financing will be crucial in a future crisis, because in such a crisis risk aversion is likely to be extreme, and even the ESM might not be able to raise at very short notice the huge sums that might be required to prevent a breakdown of the financial system.
Hundreds of billions of euro might be needed just to top up the programmes for Greece, Ireland and Portugal – and
Spain and Italy may require more than a thousand billion euro. Sums of this order of magnitude cannot be raised
quickly by a new institution. Simply increasing the headline size of the ESM might thus be of little use.
The ‘ESM-bank’ (effectively a European Monetary Fund) would be subject to the same rules that apply to all other
banks and the ECB would accept only high-quality collateral from it. The ECB could abandon its programme of
purchasing peripheral government bonds and it would retain the final say on whether to provide liquidity to the
ESM. Thus, the ECB would remain in control of central bank money supply and its role would be restricted to the
classic functions of ensuring price stability and acting as a lender of last resort for banks. The management of
external and internal imbalances within the euro area would be left to the ESM under the supervision of the finance
ministers.
2012-03
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/34448/1/PB265_DG_%26_TM_Liquidity_in_times_of_crisis%2D1.pdf
http://shop.ceps.eu/book/liquidity-times-crisis-even-esm-needs-it
Gros, Daniel. and Mayer, Thomas (2012) Liquidity in times of crisis: even the ESM needs it. CEPS Policy Brief No. 265, March 2012. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/34448/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:34848
2012-05-04T16:28:51Z
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In search of symmetry in the eurozone. CEPS Commentary, 2 May 2012
De Grauwe, Paul.
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
Spain
EMU/EMS/euro
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
The analysis in this Commentary provides strong evidence that the burden of the adjustments to the imbalances in the eurozone between the surplus and the deficit countries is borne almost exclusively by the deficit countries in the periphery. And although the European Commission has now been invested with the important responsibility of monitoring and correcting macroeconomic imbalances in the framework of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP), the author finds that so far it has imposed a lot of pressure on the deficit countries but fails to impose similar pressure on the surplus countries, with the effect that the eurozone is being kept in a deflationary straitjacket.
2012-05
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/34848/1/PDG_In_Search_of_Symmetry_in_the_EZ.pdf
http://www.ceps.be/book/search-symmetry-eurozone
De Grauwe, Paul. (2012) In search of symmetry in the eurozone. CEPS Commentary, 2 May 2012. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/34848/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:35625
2012-06-26T01:03:04Z
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Compositional effects on productivity, labour cost and export adjustments. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2012/11, June 2012
Darvas, Zolt
Estonia
Greece
Ireland
Latvia
Lithuania
Portugal
employment/unemployment
labour/labor
Sectoral shifts, such as shrinkage of low labour productivity and the low-wage construction sector, can lead to apparent increased aggregate average labour productivity and average wages, especially when capital intensity differs across sectors.
For 11 main sectors and 13 manufacturing sub-sectors, we quantify the compositional effects on productivity, wages and unit labour costs (ULCs) based and real effective exchange rates (REER), for 24 EU countries.
Compositional effects are greatest in Ireland, where the pharmaceutical sector drives the growth of output and productivity, but other sectors have suffered greatly and have not yet recovered.
Our new ULC-REER measurements, which are free from compositional effects, correlate well with export performance.
Among the countries facing the most severe external adjustment challenges, Lithuania, Portugal and Ireland have been the most successful based on five indicators, and Latvia, Estonia and Greece the least successful.
There is evidence of downward wage flexibility in some countries, but wage cuts have corrected just a small fraction of pre-crisis wage rises and came with massive reductions in employment even in the business sector excluding construction and real estate, highlighting the difficulty of adjusting wages downward.
2012-06
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/35625/1/Compositional_effects_on_productivity%2C_labour_cost_and_export_adjustments_(English)_(English).pdf
http://www.bruegel.org/publications/publication-detail/publication/730-compositional-effects-on-productivity-labour-cost-and-export-adjustments/
Darvas, Zolt (2012) Compositional effects on productivity, labour cost and export adjustments. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2012/11, June 2012. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/35625/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:35629
2012-06-26T09:55:42Z
oai:aei.pitt.edu:35633
2012-06-26T02:12:17Z
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Self-Fulfilling Crises in the Eurozone: An Empirical Test. CEPS Working Document No. 366, 22 June 2012
De Grauwe, Paul.
Ji, Yuemei
Greece
Ireland
Portugal
Spain
capital, goods, services, workers
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
This paper tests the hypothesis that government bond markets in the eurozone are more fragile and more susceptible to self-fulfilling liquidity crises than in stand-alone countries. We find evidence that a significant part of the surge in the spreads of the PIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain) in the eurozone during 2010-11 was disconnected from underlying increases in the debt-to-GDP ratios and fiscal space variables, and was the result of negative self-fulfilling market sentiments that became very strong since the end of 2010. We argue that this can drive member countries of the eurozone into bad equilibria.
We also find evidence that after years of neglecting high government debt, investors became increasingly worried about this in the eurozone, and reacted by raising the spreads. No such worries developed in stand-alone countries despite the fact that debt-to-GDP ratios and fiscal space variables were equally high and increasing in these countries.
2012-06
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/35633/1/WD_No_366_PDG_%26_YJ_Empirical_Test_Fragility_Eurozone.pdf
http://www.ceps.be/book/self-fulfilling-crises-eurozone-empirical-test
De Grauwe, Paul. and Ji, Yuemei (2012) Self-Fulfilling Crises in the Eurozone: An Empirical Test. CEPS Working Document No. 366, 22 June 2012. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/35633/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:37023
2012-10-22T01:38:41Z
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Banking Union: Ireland vs. Nevada, an illustration of the importance of an integrated banking system. CEPS Commentary, 18 October 2012
Gros, Daniel.
Ireland
capital, goods, services, workers
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Despite their surprising similarities – in size and their housing booms – Ireland and the American state of Nevada sharply parted company when it came to who bore responsibility for bailing out their failed banks when the booms turned to bust. This latest Commentary by Daniel Gros vividly illustrates the importance of that difference and thus the shock-absorbing capacity of an integrated banking system and a banking union.
2012-10
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/37023/1/DG_Banking_Union_NEV_vs_IRL.pdf
http://www.ceps.be/book/banking-union-ireland-vs-nevada-illustration-importance-integrated-banking-system
Gros, Daniel. (2012) Banking Union: Ireland vs. Nevada, an illustration of the importance of an integrated banking system. CEPS Commentary, 18 October 2012. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/37023/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:39060
2014-04-08T14:29:06Z
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Options for a Euro-area fiscal capacity. Bruegel Policy Brief 2013/01, January 2013
Pisani-Ferry, Jean
Vihriälä , Erkki
Wolff, Guntram B.
Greece
Ireland
Portugal
Spain
EMU/EMS/euro
fiscal policy
Europe has responded to the crisis with strengthened budgetary and macroeconomic surveillance, the creation of the European Stability Mechanism, liquidity provisioning by resilient economies and the European Central Bank and a process towards a banking union. However, a monetary union requires some form of budget for fiscal stabilisation in case of shocks, and as a backstop to the banking union.
This paper compares four quantitatively different schemes of fiscal stabilisation and proposes a new scheme based on GDP-indexed bonds. The options considered are: (i) A federal budget with unemployment and corporate taxes shifted to euro-area level; (ii) a support scheme based on deviations from potential output;(iii) an insurance scheme via which governments would issue bonds indexed to GDP, and (iv) a scheme in which access to jointly guaranteed borrowing is combined with gradual withdrawal of fiscal sovereignty.
Our comparison is based on strong assumptions. We carry out a preliminary, limited simulation of how the debt-to-GDP ratio would have developed between 2008-14 under the four schemes for Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and an ‘average’ country.The schemes have varying implications in each case for debt sustainability
2013-01
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/39060/1/Options_for_a_Euro%2DArea_fiscal_capacity_(English).pdf
http://www.bruegel.org/publications/publication-detail/publication/765-options-for-a-euro-area-fiscal-capacity/
Pisani-Ferry, Jean and Vihriälä , Erkki and Wolff, Guntram B. (2013) Options for a Euro-area fiscal capacity. Bruegel Policy Brief 2013/01, January 2013. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/39060/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:40235
2014-07-25T13:37:49Z
oai:aei.pitt.edu:42198
2018-01-30T18:00:04Z
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EU-IMF assistance to euro area countries: an early assessment. Bruegel Blueprint No. 19, 16 May 2013
Pisani-Ferry, Jean
Wolff, Guntram B.
Sapir , André
IMF
Greece
Ireland
Portugal
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Three years ago, in May 2010, Greece became the first euro-area country to receive financial assistance from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in exchange for implementing an economic programme designed by the Troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF. Within a year, Ireland and Portugal went down the same path.
This study provides an early evaluation of these assistance programmes implemented by the Troika in these three countries. The study assesses the economic impact of the programmes and the consequences of their particular institutional set-up.
2013-05
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/42198/1/EU%2DIMF_assistance_to_euro%2Darea_countries__an_early_assessment_(English).pdf
http://www.bruegel.org/publications/publication-detail/publication/779-eu-imf-assistance-to-euro-area-countries-an-early-assessment/
Pisani-Ferry, Jean and Wolff, Guntram B. and Sapir , André (2013) EU-IMF assistance to euro area countries: an early assessment. Bruegel Blueprint No. 19, 16 May 2013. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/42198/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:43301
2013-08-28T13:49:14Z
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Déjà-vu (again): The Lisbon Treaty Referendum in Ireland. IHS Political Science Series No. 133, February 2013
Marsh, Michael
Schwirz, Laura
Ireland
European elections/voting behavior
There has been an increasing use of direct democracy in the form of referendums on aspects of European integration. Two such referendums have been held in Ireland in 2008
and 2009 with the outcome changing from a No to a Yes vote. This paper addresses the question of what explains the change in outcome in two referendums on essentially the
same document. It will do so by looking at the role of the campaign in providing information and hence reducing uncertainty, the importance of issue frames and the impact of domestic considerations on vote choice. It is suggested that there has not been a change in underlying attitudes but a change in how the Irish electorate weighed the same factors differently at both referendums. In addition, a change in economic conditions at the time of the second
referendum also had an effect on how voters decided the second time around.
2013-02
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/43301/1/pw_133.pdf
http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_133.pdf
Marsh, Michael and Schwirz, Laura (2013) Déjà-vu (again): The Lisbon Treaty Referendum in Ireland. IHS Political Science Series No. 133, February 2013. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/43301/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:43429
2013-09-02T19:49:40Z
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Ireland gets the new Trio Presidency off to a propitious start. CEPS Commentary, 30 August 2013
Piedrafita, Sonia
European Council-Presidency
Ireland
The Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU (January-June 2013) faced numerous challenges, not least of which was to negotiate the financial framework for the period 2014-2020 and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy with the European Parliament, as well as the pressure to advance the banking agenda. Moreover, the fact that it was the start of a new Trio Presidency, the small size of the Irish administration and its fragile financial situation gave rise to some doubts as to how much it could achieve. Nevertheless, this post mortem on the Irish presidency finds that the Irish government approached the task with realism and optimism, a firm focus on results and the strong conviction that a good performance would enhance its reputation at home and in the EU. It is now for Lithuania and subsequently Greece, in the first half of 2014, to continue to tackle the remaining formidable challenges.
2013-08
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/43429/1/SP_Irish_Presidency_2013_rev_Aug_29.pdf
http://www.ceps.eu/author/sonia-piedrafita
Piedrafita, Sonia (2013) Ireland gets the new Trio Presidency off to a propitious start. CEPS Commentary, 30 August 2013. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/43429/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:46818
2014-01-30T17:31:34Z
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Lisbon Fado: The European Union under Reform
Bickerton, Chris
Boening, Astrid
e Cunha, Paulo de Pitta
Dehousse, Renaud
Domínguez, Roberto
de Vidales, Covadonga Ferrer Martín
Kanner, Aimee.
Kreidman, Adam
Langenhove, Luk Van
Laursen, Finn.
Lorca, Francisco J.
Lorca-Susino, María
Marchesi, Daniele
Roy, Joaquin.
Morais, Luís Silva
Schmidt, Vivien A.
Ziller, Jacques
Constitution for Europe
EU-Mediterranean/Union for the Mediterranean
EU-Latin America
Ireland
Lisbon Treaty
EMU/EMS/euro
European elections/voting behavior
From the Introduction. To address the uncertainties surrounding the Treaty of Lisbon, this book examines several issues from various angles. Regardless of the results
of the second referendum in Ireland and the
pending ratifications in Poland, the Czech
Republic and Germany, the European Union (EU)
will not be the same after the Lisbon Treaty.
If it comes into effect, Europeans will enter into
a new stage in the deepening of the integration
process; if it is rejected, the first decade
of the 21st Century will represent a period of
institutional stagnation in Europe’s integration.
Nonetheless, the chapters in this book share the
consensus that, despite its limitations,
the Lisbon Treaty will make the EU decision
making process more efficient, enhance regional
democracy and strengthen its international voice.
Roy, Joaquin.
Domínguez, Roberto
2009
Book
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/46818/1/Lisbon_Fado%2Dtextfinal%2Dall.pdf
Bickerton, Chris and Boening, Astrid and e Cunha, Paulo de Pitta and Dehousse, Renaud and Domínguez, Roberto and de Vidales, Covadonga Ferrer Martín and Kanner, Aimee. and Kreidman, Adam and Langenhove, Luk Van and Laursen, Finn. and Lorca, Francisco J. and Lorca-Susino, María and Marchesi, Daniele and Roy, Joaquin. and Morais, Luís Silva and Schmidt, Vivien A. and Ziller, Jacques (2009) Lisbon Fado: The European Union under Reform. UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 1-59388-164-9
http://aei.pitt.edu/46818/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:48738
2014-02-20T15:51:57Z
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The long haul: managing exit from financial assistance. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue 2014/03, 20 February 2014
Wolff, Guntram B.
Darvas, Zsolt
Sapir, André
Greece
Ireland
Portugal
financial crisis 2008-on/reforms/economic governance
Countries can make a clean exit from financial assistance, or enter a new programme or a precautionary programme, depending on the sustainability of their public debt and their vulnerability to shocks.
Ireland made a clean exit in December 2013, supported by significant budgetary and current-account adjustment and signs of economic recovery. But Irish debt sustainability is not guaranteed and prudence will be needed to avoid future difficulties.
A clean exit for Portugal is not recommended when its programme ends in May 2014, because compared to Ireland it faces higher interest rates, has poorer growth prospects and has probably less ability to generate a consistently high primary surplus. A precautionary arrangement would be advisable. In case debt sustainability proves difficult to achieve later, some form of debt restructuring may prove necessary.
It is unlikely that Greece will be able to exit its programme in December 2014. A third programme should be put in place to take Greece out of the market until 2030, accompanied by enhanced budgetary and structural reform commitments by Greece, a European boost to economic growth in the euro-area periphery and willingness on the part of lenders to reduce loan charges below their borrowing costs, should public debt levels prove unsustainable despite Greece meeting the loan conditions.
Even assuming all goes well, the three countries will be subject to enhanced post-pro-gramme surveillance for decades. Managing such long-term relationships will be a key challenge.
2014-02
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/48738/1/The_long_haul%2D_managing_exit_from_financial_assistance_(English).pdf
http://www.bruegel.org/publications/publication-detail/publication/816-the-long-haul-managing-exit-from-financial-assistance/
Wolff, Guntram B. and Darvas, Zsolt and Sapir, André (2014) The long haul: managing exit from financial assistance. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue 2014/03, 20 February 2014. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/48738/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:50394
2014-04-04T13:28:37Z
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Implementation of the Macroeconomic Adjustment Programmes in the Euro Area: State-of-Play. CEPS E-Book, 11 March 2014
Gros, Daniel.
Alcidi, Cinzia.
Belke, Ansgar
Coutinho, Leonor.
Giovannini, Alessandro
Greece
Ireland
Latvia
Portugal
Cyprus
economic policy
Two of the four macroeconomic adjustment programmes – in Portugal and Ireland – can be considered a success in the sense that the initial expectations in terms of adjustment, both fiscal and external, were broadly fulfilled. A rebound based on exports has taken hold in these two countries, but a full recovery will take years. In Greece the initial plans were insufficient. While the strong impact of the fiscal adjustment on demand could have been partially anticipated at the time, the resistance to structural reforms was more surprising and remains difficult to cure. The fiscal adjustment is now almost completed, but the external adjustment has not proceeded well. Exports are stagnating despite impressive falls in wage costs. In Cyprus, the outcome has so far been less severe than initially feared. It is still too early to find robust evidence in any country that the programmes have increased the long-term growth potential. Survey-based evidence suggests that structural reforms have not yet taken hold. The EU-led macroeconomic adjustment programmes outside the euro area (e.g. Latvia) seem to have been much stricter, but the adjustment was quicker and followed by a stronger rebound.
2014-03
Book
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/50394/1/Macroeconomic_Adjustment_Programmes_in_Euro_Area_e%2Dbook.pdf
http://www.ceps.be/book/implementation-macroeconomic-adjustment-programmes-euro-area-state-play
Gros, Daniel. and Alcidi, Cinzia. and Belke, Ansgar and Coutinho, Leonor. and Giovannini, Alessandro (2014) Implementation of the Macroeconomic Adjustment Programmes in the Euro Area: State-of-Play. CEPS E-Book, 11 March 2014. Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Paperbacks <http://aei.pitt.edu/view/series/SMCEPSPaperbacks.html> . UNSPECIFIED. ISBN 978-94-6138-385-3
http://aei.pitt.edu/50394/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:50559
2014-05-08T20:26:03Z
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Exports and Capacity Constraints: A smooth transition regression model for six euro-area countries. CEPS Working Document No. 395/May 2014
Belke, Ansgar
Oeking, Anne
Seltzer, Ralph
France
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
Spain
international trade
The significant gains in export market shares made in a number of vulnerable euro-area crisis countries have not been accompanied by an appropriate improvement in price competitiveness. This paper argues that, under certain conditions, firms consider export activity as a substitute for serving domestic demand. The strength of the link between domestic demand and exports is dependent on capacity constraints. Our econometric model for six euro-area countries suggests domestic demand pressure and capacity-constraint restrictions as additional variables of a properly specified export equation. As an innovation to the literature, we assess the empirical significance through the logistic and the exponential variant of the non-linear smooth transition regression model. We find that domestic demand developments are relevant for the short-run dynamics of exports in particular during more extreme stages of the business cycle. A strong substitutive relationship between domestic and foreign sales can most clearly be found for Spain, Portugal and Italy, providing evidence of the importance of sunk costs and hysteresis in international trade.
2014-05
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/50559/1/WD395_Belke_et_al_Exports_%26_Capacity_Constraints_(1).pdf
http://www.ceps.be/book/exports-and-capacity-constraints-smooth-transition-regression-model-six-euro-area-countries
Belke, Ansgar and Oeking, Anne and Seltzer, Ralph (2014) Exports and Capacity Constraints: A smooth transition regression model for six euro-area countries. CEPS Working Document No. 395/May 2014. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/50559/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:51254
2015-01-12T21:10:42Z
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Ireland's Rejection of the Lisbon Treaty and the EU's Impasse.
Parsons, Craig
Bickerton, Chris J.
Glencross, Andrew
Dehousse, Renaud
Schmidt, Vivien A.
Marks, Gary
Cohen, Benjamin J.
Hadden, Jennifer
Schulze, Jennie
Ireland
Lisbon Treaty
none
2008
Review Essay
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/51254/1/2008.FALL.pdf
Parsons, Craig and Bickerton, Chris J. and Glencross, Andrew and Dehousse, Renaud and Schmidt, Vivien A. and Marks, Gary and Cohen, Benjamin J. and Hadden, Jennifer and Schulze, Jennie (2008) Ireland's Rejection of the Lisbon Treaty and the EU's Impasse. [Review Essay]
http://aei.pitt.edu/51254/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:52439
2020-01-08T01:11:54Z
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The long haul: debt sustainability analysis. Bruegel Working Paper 2014/06, June 2014
Darvas, Zsolt
Huttl, Pia
Greece
Ireland
Portugal
2014-06
Working Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/52439/1/The_long_haul%2D_debt_sustainability_analysis_(English)_(1).pdf
Darvas, Zsolt and Huttl, Pia (2014) The long haul: debt sustainability analysis. Bruegel Working Paper 2014/06, June 2014. [Working Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/52439/
oai:aei.pitt.edu:52454
2014-07-15T21:26:47Z
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The Political and Judicial Life of Metadata: Digital Rights Ireland and the Trail of the Data Retention Directive. CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security No. 65, May 2014
Guild, Elspeth
Carrera, Sergio
Ireland
general
This paper examines the challenges facing the EU regarding data retention, particularly in the aftermath of the judgment Digital Rights Ireland by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of April 2014, which found the Data Retention Directive 2002/58 to be invalid. It first offers a brief historical account of the Data Retention Directive and then moves to a detailed assessment of what the judgment means for determining the lawfulness of data retention from the perspective of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: what is wrong with the Data Retention Directive and how would it need to be changed to comply with the right to respect for privacy? The paper also looks at the responses to the judgment from the European institutions and elsewhere, and presents a set of policy suggestions to the European institutions on the way forward. It is argued here that one of the main issues underlying the Digital Rights Ireland judgment has been the role of fundamental rights in the EU legal order, and in particular the extent to which the retention of metadata for law enforcement purposes is consistent with EU citizens’ right to respect for privacy and to data protection. The paper offers three main recommendations to EU policy-makers: first, to give priority to a full and independent evaluation of the value of the data retention directive; second, to assess the judgment’s implications for other large EU information systems and proposals that provide for the mass collection of metadata from innocent persons, in the EU; and third, to adopt without delay the proposal for Directive COM(2012)10 dealing with data protection in the fields of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
2014-05
Policy Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/52454/1/EG_and_SC_Data_retention.pdf
http://www.ceps.be/book/political-and-judicial-life-metadata-digital-rights-ireland-and-trail-data-retention-directive
Guild, Elspeth and Carrera, Sergio (2014) The Political and Judicial Life of Metadata: Digital Rights Ireland and the Trail of the Data Retention Directive. CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security No. 65, May 2014. [Policy Paper]
http://aei.pitt.edu/52454/metadataPrefix%3Doai_dc%26offset%3D52455%26set%3D7375626A656374733D46%253A46303130