Bulletin n. 1-2/2014
November 2014
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Verheugen Günter
    A “warts and all” portrait of a new EU industrial policy
    in Europe´s World , n. 27, Summer ,  2014
    To fully appreciate the EU’s new industrial policy, one first has to understand the reasons behind its European-level renaissance. By the end of the 1990s, many policymakers had become fascinated with the emerging knowledge-based, sustainable and green economy, leaving anyone speaking about industrial policy as belonging to a dying species. This was in part because industrial policy was widely seen as no more than state interventionism, and so was regarded as undue intervention in free market forces. It also reflected the growing sentiment that the EU should be a frontrunner in greening the economy and building up knowledge-based societies. Even today, there are leaders in EU who hope that Europe will abandon industrial roots they regard as dangerous and polluting.
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