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La prohibition des ententes et des abus de position dominante a été le socle historique qui a permis, dans la construction européenne, d'affirmer une culture de concurrence résolument tournée vers la protection du bien-être collectif. Qu'il s'agisse d'ententes secrètes, de techniques contractuelles pernicieuses, d'abus par pratiques d'éviction de concurrents méritants ou d'exploitations de rente de situation, ce droit traque les hausses des prix, les cloisonnements territoriaux, les limitations de la production, les baisses de qualité et les confiscations de l'innovation.Intitulé « Politique

This essay was the winning submission in a competition held by ELSA Malta, in collaboration with the Office of MEP Roberta Metsola. ; peer-reviewed

Economics is the study of how scarce resources, including human, physical and technological capital, are allocated between competing uses towards the production of goods and services. This typically involves an assessment of supply capabilities and demand patterns, with prices acting as a signal for resources to move into the most productive and socially desirable applications. Cases of market failure where prices do not effectively perform these functions are notorious, arising out of the existence of external effects and the presence of market imperfections, which may result in an inefficient allocation of resources and an inequitable distribution of income. These instances underpin the economic justification for government intervention in the economy aimed at improving the allocation of resources towards improving social welfare. ; peer-reviewed

"Referendums in the European Union" published on by Oxford University Press.

"The idea of building an economy which supports sustainable development without degrading the environment has been widely debated and broadly embraced by politicians, civil servants, the media, academics and the public alike for several decades. This book explores the measures being trialled at various levels of governance in the European region to reduce the adverse impacts of human behaviour on the environment whilst simultaneously addressing society's economic and social needs as part of the intended shift towards a 'green' economy. It includes European case studies that scrutinise the efforts being undertaken at sub-national, national and regional tiers of governance to facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers working in environmental governance, European studies, environmental studies, political science, and management studies."

This work explores the changing economic, political, and legal dynamics of European integration since the Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1992, and puts forward a provocative new approach 'the new intergovernmentalism' which challenges many conventional assumptions underpinning traditional theories of European integration and governance

Due to the economic recession which started in 2008, several members of the European Union became historically known as PIIGS. These state include Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain and combined together, they form the acronym PIIGS. The reason why these countries were grouped together is the substantial instability of their economies, which was a evident problem in 2009. The reason why the five countries gained popularity is a serious concern within the EU, with regard to their national debts, especially for Greece. The latter country was involved in a controversial affair after allegedly falsifying its public financial data. In the year 2010, it was evident that the five states were in need of corrective action in order to regain their former financial stability. Because of the dirty farm animal associated with the acronym, several country leaders from the financially troubled countries have voiced out disagreement with the use of the term. However, there are quite a number of reporters and columnists who still refer to it when talking about the widespread economic crisis within the European Union. Although some prominent politicians have criticized the practice, the use of the word is very hard to shake off ; peer-reviewed

We ask whether and why European political parties receive election news coverage abroad and investigate this phenomenon by combining theoretical stipulations regarding the politicisation of European integration and the horizontal Europeanisation of national public spheres. Based on a content analysis of 64 newspapers in 16 European Union countries following the 2019 European Parliament election, we argue that contestation over European integration increases the likelihood that foreign journalists report election results from a particular member state. Eurosceptic parties are more often visible abroad than Europhile parties, unless they stood for election in a highly polarised party system. Our results have important implications for the European Union's legitimacy as contestation over European integration increases the chances for citizens to learn about election results in other European countries.

The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of research and development expenses on export and economic growth. Within this scope, annual data of 28 European Union member countries for the periods between 1996 and 2014 was taken into the consideration. Additionally, Dumitrescu Hurlin panel causality analysis was used in this study to achieve this objective. First of all, Im, Pesaran and Shin and Levin, Lin & Chu panel unit root tests were used to understand whether the variables are stationary or not. As a result of these tests, it was defined that the variable of economic growth is stationary whereas other two variables (export and R&D) are not. According to the results of Dumitrescu Hurlin causality analysis, it was determined that there is not a significant relationship between economic growth and R&D. On the other hand, it was concluded that there is a causality relationship from export to R&D expenses. This situation shows that EU member countries, which have higher export amount, give more importance to R&D in order to improve themselves. ; peer-reviewed