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EU citizenship for sale!5
- EU Governance and Politics, Op-ed
- 12/01/2017
One of the fundamental values of the European Union is democracy: is it democratic for some Member States not to grant citizenship to foreigners’ children, born and raised in their own same country, while others sell citizenship in exchange of money and investments?
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Tax avoidance policy: can we balance morality and economy?0
Recently, the EU has found itself in a precarious position, given the supranational and national law systems overlapping with each other and creating tax loopholes. A position the EU wants to do away with, as demonstrated by its last anti-tax avoidance initiative. Only, is a simple application of a fair profit distribution dogma really the answer to the tax avoidance problem?
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European solidarity corps: An IKEA guide to social cohesion0
The Commission proposal for a European Solidarity Corps comes at a time when solidarity between and within states is at a low point. By marrying solidarity with paid work experience the initiative breaks a vicious circle of non – solidarity in the age of individualism. There is, after all, nothing like a bit of self-interest to build social cohesion from the ground up. Flexible security is the missing component in rigid social security systems that have long ceased to offer real security to Europe’s youth.
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Apple, Ireland and the EU: considerations on just corporate tax regimes15
The preferential treatment granted by Ireland effectively configures as state aid, a practice which is not only incompatible with the internal market principles of free competition and non-discrimination, but also unethical.
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Waltraud Schelkle: “Eurozone must build risk-sharing mechanisms”0
Joseph Stiglitz can certainly not be counted among the friends of the Euro. His new book, The Euro and Its Threat to the Future of Europe, provides ammunition for Eurosceptics, on whichever side of the political spectrum: a harsh critique of the Single Currency, unrealistic policy proposals on how to save it (e.g. a fiscal federation), the conclusion that an “amicable divorce” would be best. In this interview, Waltraud Schelkle, Associate Professor in Political Economy at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, provides an alternative read of the euro area crisis.
READ MOREIt is up to the Commission to guide into the right way to EU democracy1
- EU Governance and Politics, Op-ed
- 08/09/2016
However desirable it may seem for political organizations to endow themselves with the halo of democracy, the European Union should be cautious to hastily “democratize” in response to the Brexit. Reform efforts to tame spreading Euroskepticism are necessary, yet not according to national standards. The EU will have to develop its own unique, transnational version of democracy.
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