As governments and societies across the globe seek to manage the Covid-19 crisis to the best of their abilities, the European Union (EU) is in a particularly favourable position to facilitate learning across its Member States, relevant to a wider set of crisis situations. This st...

Fragmentation at the local level of government has been a recurring theme in the European Semester, as well as the focus of policy attention in Member States. Based on a literature review and presentations by leading experts, this thematic study considers how amalgamation has bee...

This report starts with the background and context for SSCs in public administration. What are they? When did they make their way into the public sector? What are the drivers and motives for SSCs? The organisation of SSCs is the prime subject of section two, which highlights vari...

Pay-for-performance (PfP) schemes in the public administration followed the results-based managerial reforms from the private sector, reflecting the belief that financial incentives improve individual performance, and thus overall organisational and public administration efficien...

This thematic study presents the state of play and challenges with regard to the management of implementing the UN Agenda 2030 and its sustainable development goals (SDGs), from a public administration and governance (PAG) perspective. It is written for policy makers on SDG objec...

Online portál Verejná kontrola v Európskej únii obsahuje informácie o mandáte, postavení, organizačnej štruktúre, práci a výstupoch najvyšších kontrolných inštitúcií v EÚ a jej členských štátoch. Iné verejné kontrolné orgány zriadené v niektorých členských štátoch, napríklad regi...

Public Audit in the European Union is an online portal for information on the mandate, status, organisation, work and output of the supreme audit institutions in the EU and its Member States. Other public audit bodies set up in some Member States, such as regional or provincial o...

Risks to financial stability have perceptibly increased since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and were significantly higher at the end of the review period than a year earlier. The economic impact of the war in Ukraine, in combination with the tightening of financial conditions o...

In order to provide the Members of the Budgetary Control Committee with reliable information and data on the COVID-19 response of the EU public administration, the study analyses the EU institutions’ response, their business continuity measures and their impact on the budget from...

This study is an update of ‘Documenting climate mainstreaming in the EU budget’ published in 2020. The methodology used by the European Commission for tracking climate change and biodiversity related expenditure at EU level is reviewed again in the light of the Multiannual Financ...