Nachdem die Einführung einer Digitalsteuer auf europäischer Ebene gescheitert ist, haben einige Mitgliedstaaten nun eigene Maßnahmen angekündigt. In diesem Policy Brief gibt Pola Schneemelcher einen Überblick über die aktuellen Entwicklungen.
In diesem Policy Paper werden Kriterien für die Bewertung digitaler Wertschöpfung bei der Besteuerung von Unternehmen definiert, die EU-weit gelten sollten. Diese Kriterien beinhalten die Frage, wo ein Unternehmen steuerpflichtig ist, den Anteil des lokalen Nutzernetzwerks...
By June, the Eurogroup has to come up with a concrete design for budgetary instrument for the euro area - but so far it is absolutely unclear what it should look like. Our policy paper fills this void and makes a concrete and pragmatic proposal that would make the Eurozone...
The European Semester is the framework for the monitoring and coordination of the economic and fiscal policies of EU member states. This Policy Paper by Valentin Kreilinger proposes minimum standards for the participation of national parliaments in the European Semester and...
The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which gave the European Central Bank (ECB) responsibilities for banking supervision in the euro area, is now 5 years old. The European Parliament is the main political actor with powers to publicly hold the ECB accountable in the SSM....
A common European safe asset is a highly contentious proposal within the Euro area reform agenda. Various safe asset proposals have been put forward since the onset of the Euro crisis ranging from Eurobonds to European Safe Bonds (ESBies), also known as Sovereign Bond-Backed...
In this blog post, Lucas Guttenberg argues that the ESM does not need a new instrument to provide short-term liquidity to member states. Instead, finance ministers should clarify that some of the existing instruments can be used without recourse to a full adjustment...
In June, the Commission tabled its proposal for the multi-billion research Programme Horizon Europe. The European Parliament and the Council are now called upon to agree on the legislative package before the forthcoming European elections. In the coming months, the...
Am Donnerstag und Freitag treffen sich die Staats-und Regierungschefs der EU in Brüssel zum Gipfel. Neben der alles überlagernden Frage der europäischen Migrationspolitik wird es vor allem um eine Frage gehen: Bekommt der französische Präsident Emmanuel Macron nun seinen...
The rapid rise of online platforms has characterized the digital transformation of the last decade. Their meteoric growth has caused concerns about market dominance and the widening information and power asymmetry between platforms and citizens, businesses and regulators...
