Download or read book Reforming EU Blacklisting written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU blacklist of high-risk jurisdictions for money laundering is being criticised for a lack of autonomy from the FATF lists, politicisation and lobbying, and lack of transparency. The paper shows four ways to change this. More autonomy from the FATF can be reached through grey listing or merging the EU money laundering list with the EU tax list. More transparency can be reached by involving NGOs or academics to do the listing. But all these lists only look at the framework of anti-money laundering policy. When looking at the actual behaviour of launderers, criminological findings should be included. This can be accomplished by leveraging various agencies, like the US International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) list. Lists differ substantially from each other and cover more than half of the world. To achieve both autonomy and transparency and to prevent politicisation, a research institute similar to the IMF could be established, for example, in the newly planned anti money laundering agency AMLA. Here an encompassing alert system of money laundering, including persons, sectors, entities, and countries could become an EU support for Member States. This document was provided by the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies at the request of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON).

Download or read book Reforming European Data Protection Law written by Serge Gutwirth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on privacy and data protection offers readers conceptual analysis as well as thoughtful discussion of issues, practices, and solutions. It features results of the seventh annual International Conference on Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection, CPDP 2014, held in Brussels January 2014. The book first examines profiling, a persistent core issue of data protection and privacy. It covers the emergence of profiling technologies, on-line behavioral tracking, and the impact of profiling on fundamental rights and values. Next, the book looks at preventing privacy risks and harms through impact assessments. It contains discussions on the tools and methodologies for impact assessments as well as case studies. The book then goes on to cover the purported trade-off between privacy and security, ways to support privacy and data protection, and the controversial right to be forgotten, which offers individuals a means to oppose the often persistent digital memory of the web. Written during the process of the fundamental revision of the current EU data protection law by the Data Protection Package proposed by the European Commission, this interdisciplinary book presents both daring and prospective approaches. It will serve as an insightful resource for readers with an interest in privacy and data protection.

Download or read book Fit for 35 written by Sergio Fabbrini and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a long period of absence, enlargement is back on the EU’s agenda. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, it took only days for Ukraine to file its application to become member of the EU. All of a sudden, the EU is not only facing a brutal war in its immediate neighbourhood but also the prospect of being substantially transformed as we may be looking at a Union of no less than 35 members in the years to come. Some would argue that this will take a very long time and there is therefore little need to dive into discussions about how the EU should operate, once it has grown. Others refer to the notion of ‘absorption capacity’ and emphasise that unless the EU changes its own policies, budget, decision-making rules and institutional set-up there is a risk that it will simply stop working following enlargement. The aim of this volume is to provide scholarly perspectives on how the EU should – or should not – change in order to enlarge further. In the first chapter, Göran von Sydow and Valentin Kreilinger set the scene by explaining what they mean by ‘Fit for 35’ and why we should care about reforming EU politics and institutions for an enlarged Union. They raise crosscutting issues that are particularly relevant to the volume and contextualise the topic within the current political and academic debate and the evolution of European integration.The second chapter, by Frank Schimmelfennig, begins by pointing out that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put enlargement back at the top of the EU agenda, and that this has confronted the EU with a dilemma. Whereas the geopolitical situation creates the need to accelerate the accession process, neither the EU nor the candidate countries are sufficiently prepared. Schimmelfennig proposes that differentiated integration would help to resolve the dilemma. Differentiated integration would facilitate the enlargement process by initially excluding new member states from those policy areas that would be most negatively affected by the expansion of the membership. It would give the EU and the new member states additional time and incentives for reform without blocking enlargement. The chapter reviews the rationale and record of differentiated integration in EU enlargement and claims that differentiated accession is established practice and would likely be more pronounced and durable in any future enlargement. Schimmelfennig further discusses and elaborates existing proposals for ‘staged accession’ and considers potential pitfalls and objections to differentiated enlargement. He concludes that differentiated membership is more likely to be feasible and acceptable to both members and candidates than quick institutional reforms.8 Fit for 35? Reforming the Politics and Institutions of the EU for an Enlarged Union SIEPS 2023:2opThe volume continues with an essay by Yves Mény (chapter 3). According to Mény, the EU is again confronted with a crucial but not new dilemma: growing to limits in order to address the demands of the states which are not yet members of the European club or taking the risk to rock the boat by being unable to adapt means to goals and ambitions. This chapter explores the dilemma and discusses the possible options which could reconcile ambition and realism, in other words enlarging and deepening at the same time. Mény shows some skepticism about the desire and capacity of the 27 present member states to adapt given the heterogeneity of visions and interests among them. All possible options have already been aired and debated. What is lacking is the political will on the part of the individual states taken as a political community. It is as if the member states were renouncing the exercise of their collective capacity unless forced to do so by circumstances and historical developments.The fourth chapter, by Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, turns to the aim of ‘fitness’ and the goals of the EU. Fitness, in terms of a political community is a variable dependent on purpose. This truism applies to the European Union as much as to all polities. While enlarging the Union in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans is a tall order that would considerably increase its territorial and demographic size as much as its socio-economic and cultural diversity, the debate about ‘what are we together for?’ is far from concluded. Russia’s war against Ukraine accentuates the need to discuss what European elites have in mind when they convey ideas of ‘sovereign Europe’ (Macron/Scholz), of ‘a geopolitical Commission’ (von der Leyen) or of ‘speaking the language of power’ (Borrell). With democracy being one fundamental value of the Union, such discourse needs to draw on citizens’ views on the future of the Union. Puntscher Riekmann argues that citizens’ expectations about security and prosperity as European public goods run high, while the foresight capacity and strategic thinking of elites leaves much to be desired. However, the Union has difficulties even in developing a shared definition of problems and crises. Indeed, definitions often emerge from an ad hoc and cumbersome search for compromise between divergent national interpretations and interests. Further enlargement will also add complexity regarding the daunting geopolitical challenges Europe faces. Hence Puntscher Riekmann concludes that if sovereignty is to become a meaningful concept in EU affairs, it needs clarification as to the nature of the sovereign, the tools by which that sovereignty is to be exercised, and citizens’ support. For that matter, treaty reform before enlargement is a worthwhile risk to take.In the next contribution (chapter 5), Tanja Börzel takes a critical perspective on treaty reform and argues that it would not make the EU fit for enlargement. Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has boosted demands for the deepening of European integration. Institutional reforms are deemed indispensable to prepare the EU for the accession of the Western Balkans and Ukraine as well as SIEPS 2023:2op Fit for 35? Reforming the Politics and Institutions of the EU for an Enlarged Union 9to build the EU’s strategic autonomy in security and defence. But irrespective of the degree of pooling and delegation of national sovereignty deemed necessary to make the EU fit for 35 members, changing the treaties would take time. Member states not only have to agree on reforms, they also have to ratify them, which entails a popular referendum in some cases. Börzel points out that amid weak public support for enlargement, seeking to deepen the EU could weaken, rather than strengthen, the EU’s capacity to widen. According to her, the key challenge for the EU is to find a way to balance rule of law conditionality against the credibility of accession and geopolitical pressures.In the sixth chapter, Sergio Fabbrini challenges the view (shared by scholars and politicians) that the EU is not a political system, but rather the contingent outcome of an evolving process that will lead to the aggregation, although differentiated, of all the states of the European continent. This view has outlived the crises of the last fifteen years (Brexit among them) and has been further strengthened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the related pressure to enlarge the EU to that country, to Moldova and possibly Georgia, as well as to the six countries of the Western Balkans. The EU, Fabbrini argues, is indeed a political system; one with a dual governance structure, supranational and intergovernmental. The entry of core state powers onto the EU agenda with Maastricht and the enlargements of the 1990s and 2000s has dramatically strengthened the latter to the detriment of the former. Those processes in fact triggered divisions on the role of national sovereignty that only the European Council could manage, bending the EU in direction of an international organization. Is this development coherent with the promise of an ‘ever closer union’? Further enlargement would require a change of paradigm, from a multi-speed EU to a multi-tier Europe, making thus Europe fit for herself.In the final chapter Göran von Sydow and Valentin Kreilinger try to connect the dots by means of some concluding remarks. They look backwards to the 1990s and forwards to the remainder of this decade, for indications of what the problems are – and the opportunities for solving them.These contributions provide different perspectives and make different prescriptions about if and how the EU should change. While many point to the difficulty of a Union of 27 engaging in tiring discussions about internal issues and burdensome negotiations about, for instance, treaty change, others argue that in order for the EU to function such reflections are necessary. In this volume there are no common conclusions. Instead, the authors provide distinct and thoughtful perspectives on what could well be a defining process for the EU.

Download or read book Great Challenges of Reformation Europe written by Eugene M. Wait and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt at an objective history about the Reformation. It presents the facts, but does not pursue any theory, or forward any cause. The issues are still controversial and always will be. The differences still exist, yet all sides provide a history filled with facts and not arguments. The book is filled with interesting details.

Download or read book Reforming Social Sciences Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991 written by Olga Breskaya and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of articles prepared after two conferences organized by the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2011 and in 2012. The focus of both conferences was concentrated on the development of reforms and changes in higher education in the social sciences and humanities in Eastern Europe during the last two decades. The collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe was followed by the enormous expansion of institutions of higher learning, especially in the ...

Download or read book Law and Economics of Public Procurement Reforms written by Gustavo Piga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriate laws and regulations are essential tools to direct the action of procurers toward the public good and avoid corruption and misallocation of resources. Common laws and regulations across regions, nations and continents potentially allow for the further opening of markets and ventures to newcomers and new ideas to satisfy public demand. Law and Economics of Public Procurement Reforms collects the original contributions related to the new European Union Directives approved in 2014 by the EU Parliament. They are of both economists and lawyers, and have been presented in a manner that allows for exchanges of views and "real time" interaction. This book features, for each section, an introductory exchange between two experts of different disciplines, made up of a series of sequential interactions between an economist and a lawyer, which enriches the liveliness of the debate and improve the mutual understanding between the two professions. Four sections characterize this book: Supporting social considerations via public procurement; Green public procurement; Innovation through innovative partnerships; and Lots - The Economic and Legal Challenges of Centralized Procurement. These themes have current relevance of the new European Public Procurement Directives. Written by an impressive array of experts in their respected fields, this volume is of great importance to practitioners who work in the field of EU public procurement in the Member States of the EU, as well as academics and students who study public finance, public policy and regulation.

Download or read book Resisting Europe written by Raffaella A. Del Sarto and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resisting Europe conceptualizes the foreign policies of Europe—defined as the European Union and its member states—toward the states in its immediate southern “neighborhood” as semi-imperial attempts to turn these states into Europe’s southern buffer zone, or borderlands. In these hybrid spaces, different types of rules and practices coexist and overlap, and negotiations over meaning and implementation take place. This book examines the diverse modalities by which states in the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa (MENA) reject, resist, challenge, modify, or entirely change European policies and preferences and provides rich empirical evidence of these contestation practices in the fields of migration and border control, banking and finance, democracy promotion, and telecommunications. It addresses the complex question of when and how MENA states capitalize on their leverage and interdependence in their relationships with Europe and contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of Europe–Middle East relations, while engaging with broader debates on power and interdependence, order, and contestation in international relations. While a contribution on the practices of resistance and contestation of MENA states vis-à-vis European policies and preferences in this geopolitically significant region was overdue, this volume leads the way for subsequent studies that seek to overcome the constraints of exceptionalism so characteristic of research of the Middle East, Europe/the European Union, and certainly of their relationship.

Download or read book Tax Policy Reforms 2018 OECD and Selected Partner Economies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition covers the latest tax policy reforms in all OECD countries, as well as in Argentina, Indonesia and South Africa. Monitoring tax policy reforms and understanding the context in which they were undertaken is crucial to informing tax policy discussions and to supporting ...

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Download or read book Protecting the Individual from International Authority written by Monika Heupel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how international organizations have a greater capacity to violate human rights, but also take on responsibility to avert such harm.

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Download or read book Money Laundering Blacklists written by Michele Riccardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the criteria used by Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the European Union to blacklist jurisdictions at high-risk of money laundering? What are the countries at highest risk according to Panama Papers and FinCEN files? Where do criminals move their illicit money, according to judicial and investigative evidence? This book answers these questions. It is an unprecedented study on the countries at highest risk of attracting money laundering and organised crime proceeds – and how they are identified as such by scholars, policy-makers and anti-money laundering (AML) practitioners. It targets an issue which is central to the policy debate, in the media, but is under-studied. This book is divided into two parts. Part I discusses the concept of money laundering risk, its main determinants, and carries out a review of extant country ratings, ranging from official blacklists and grey lists, to media leaks and scholarly papers. Part II discusses the weaknesses and the myths behind the current ratings and proposes a new approach to assess the risk of money laundering across countries. With a critical research perspective, empirically driven, this book aims to satisfy both scholars and students – in particular from criminology, economics, and international relations – and practitioners from banks, professional firms, and AML authorities.

Download or read book Havens in a Storm written by J. C. Sharman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful countries including France, Britain, Japan, and the United States, however, wished to stanch the offshore flow of domestic taxable capital. Since 1998 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has attempted to impose common tax regulations on more than three dozen small states. In a fascinating book based on fieldwork and interviews in twenty-two countries in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, J. C. Sharman shows how the struggle was decided in favor of the tax havens, which eventually avoided common regulation. No other book on tax havens is based on such extensive fieldwork, and no other author has had access to so many of the key decision makers who played roles in the conflict between onshore and offshore Sharman suggests that microstates succeeded in their struggle with great powers because of their astute deployment of reputation and effective rhetorical self-positioning. In effect, they persuaded a transnational audience that the OECD was being untrue to its own values by engaging in a hypocritical, bullying exercise inimical to free competition.

Download or read book Statutory Audits in Europe written by Michael Kend and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, corporate collapses, accounting scandals, and concerns around competition and auditor choice, the European Commission (EC) promoted the preparation of various reports on audit policy to support a harmonisation process of European auditing regulation. Consequently, the European Union (EU) Audit Regulation and Directive was implemented from 2016. This book provides a timely picture of the audit sector and how it responds to regulatory and technological challenges. It analyses the impact of EU reforms on audit practices by comparing the UK and Italy, which, representing two very different regulatory and cultural contexts, will offer insight into how the efforts at standardising audit regulation may lead to very different organisational firm responses within Europe. It addresses issues relating to public policy work and the concerns faced by the market for audit and assurance services, in promoting audit quality, better communication about the role of the auditor, capital market stability and confidence, and auditor independence. Moreover, it highlights what the future of auditing might look like in the EU particularly now that the UK has left, and how meeting public expectations will continue to be a struggle for the accounting profession given the many problems ahead. The book encourages a deeper awareness of the challenges faced by those that monitor and certify the financial statements of the world’s largest public companies and contributes to the general understanding of this controversial industry. It will serve as a useful guide to the recent EU audit reforms, not only for academics, and research students but also to regulators, policymakers, standard setters, industry professionals, and business executives worldwide.

Download or read book Europe s Foreign and Security Policy written by Michael E. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. In this book, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU, the way institutional development affects cooperative outcomes in foreign policy, and how those outcomes lead to new institutional reforms. Smith explains the evolution and performance of the institutional procedures of the EU using a unique analytical framework, supported by extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources. His perceptive and well-informed analysis covers the entire history of EU foreign policy cooperation, from its origins in the late 1960s up to the start of the 2003 constitutional convention. Demonstrating the importance and extent of EU foreign/security policy, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and policy-makers.

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