
How to identify and avoid gold-plating EU regulations
2 February 2022
Preventing gold-plating is once again reinstated by the EU as an important measure to reduce barriers to the single market. Gold-plating is not in …
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Frits Bolkestein // 22 October 2018
The author is the former European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services.
With the Commission and Parliament both starting their last legislative year, one …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 16.12.2016
On December 12th, Member States’ Representatives voted to formally adopt the latest European Commission proposal to end roaming charges in the EU by June …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 01.12.2016
Since the 1992 MacSharry reform, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has undergone substantial changes. However, despite a noticeable move towards less market- and trade- …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 11.11.2016
Since the adoption of the 1990 Directive 90/220/EEC the EU has “de facto” imposed a moratorium on cultivating GM crops.
As the European …
Diego Zuluaga, Head of Research at EPICENTER // 31.10.2016
The sharing economy is about reducing transaction costs. As Duke University Professor Michael Munger wrote for the IEA last year, such reductions take mainly …