According to Majone, it is the phenomena of greater economic integration and increased international competition that has resulted in a reduced role for the positive, interventionist State, and a corresponding increase in the role of the “regulatory State”. As part of this thesis, international ...
The energy sector is undergoing a serious transition, being subject to the challenges and opportunities brought by the unstoppable global trends of decentralisation, decarbonisation, and digitalisation. As perhaps the most flexible component of the energy sector, the power sector is rapidly chan...
This report on the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is a deliverable of the LIFE SIDE project (www.lifesideproject.eu) undertaken by the Florence School of Regulation – Climate between September 2016 and December 2018. The ultimate goal of LIFE SIDE is to support policymakers in the implemen...
Austrians go to the polls this week to elect a new Parliament. Immigration has been a key theme in recent Austrian and EU politics. In this policy brief, Lenka Drazanova from the Observatory of Public Attitudes to Migration analyses attitudes to migration in Austria to show that it is immigratio...
- The decarbonisation of the EU economy requires immediate action to avoid methane emissions. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG), but if captured, it provides economic value to energy production. - The EU efforts to decarbonise its energy system have so far mostly been concentrated on CO2 ...
Over the last decade, the European Union has pursued a proactive climate policy and integrated a significant amount of renewable technologies – such as solar and wind – into the established energy system. - These efforts have proved successful, and continuing along this pathway, increasing renew...
On 12 October 2018, the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies hosted the third Annual Conference of the Florence Competition Programme (FCP) at the European University Institute’s (EUI’s) campus in Florence. The conference discussed the challenges that are linked to abuses of Standard Essen...
Migration is a growing global phenomenon and its impacts on both origin and destination countries have become major concerns in national, regional and international political agendas. As migrations connect and relate territories experiencing different dynamics, the Mediterranean provides quite a...
On 15th December, 2018, the Florence Competition Programme (FCP) organized its second advanced competition seminar in the context of the FCP Annual Training, 2018/2019 edition. The seminar focused on the high-profile Facebook case, recently decided by the Bundeskartellamt (German Competition Aut...
The electricity network business model that emerged during the liberalisation era is not optimal in the context of the current transformation of the electricity system. An evolution towards an “insurance-type” business model is necessary, where the network is remunerated on the basis of the serv...
