When a directive is issued, you don't know who is responsible instead, they are known as, say, Directive 17.62 (meaning that it is directive no. 17 issued in 1962).

This directive was delivered orally to on duty editors.

To save money.

Not surprisingly, given the EU authorities obvious inability to end the malaise, many member states are losing patience with austerity.

After Austerity

Alternatives to Austerity

The Austerity Pandemic

The Wrong Austerity Cure

(b) To achieve cost savings

The battle between austerity s defenders and opponents thus threatens to tear apart not just the eurozone, but the EU as a whole.

implementation is a compiler directive that says you re about to present the code for the guts of a class.

During the referendum campaign in France preceding the vote on the draft EU Constitutional Treaty, the proposed directive was vilified as undermining the rights of labor, symbolized by that dreaded bogeyman, the Polish plumber. These attacks overlooked the fact that the directive makes employment conditions of workers from other EU member states subject in most respects to host country rules.

These attacks overlooked the fact that the directive makes employment conditions of workers from other EU member states subject in most respects to host country rules.

Austerity and Demoralization

We have enormous energy savings.

Europe s Austerity Zombies

It was the first year of the 18th century.

The third function was...

The weak and diluted EU Takeover Directive, adopted after more than a decade of debate, fails to facilitate the cross border mergers within Europe that are needed to build world champions.

The directive on free movement implies a new era of direct migration into West European welfare states.

End Austerity Now

Taming Finance in an Age of Austerity

Talk abounds of a global savings glut.

But the austerity charge is misconceived.

Austerity in Small Places

Fiscal Austerity Versus European Society

The best guideline is to not permit disagreements to spill over and complicate or infect the relationship.

The reality is that the rest of Europe cannot succeed in restoring growth without Germany, and Germany remains wedded to the austerity cure.

Europe s Irrelevant Austerity Debate

Austerity Is the Only Deal Breaker

A Greek Burial for German Austerity

All that is needed is political direction, so that the European Commission can establish the necessary governance structures.

During the referendum campaign in France preceding the vote on the draft EU Constitutional Treaty, the proposed directive was vilified as undermining the rights of labor, symbolized by that dreaded bogeyman, the Polish plumber.

Regulators can do a great deal, but they need political direction from the highest level in order to make genuine progress.

Austerity and Debt Realism

But the government is loath to consider a mandatory saving plan.

Fiscal austerity was supposed to restore confidence.

(ii) Amount of efficiency gains resulting from business process improvements .

Thus, no savings were reported in this respect.

Then you have to develop a culture of saving energy and water.

But any renegotiation following a Syriza victory would undoubtedly unleash a political avalanche in the southern EU that would sweep away austerity and fully reignite the eurozone crisis.

It cannot avoid taking sides by insisting publicly on austerity rules but then acquiescing when member states break them.

If we assume that a causal relationship exists, the European directive seems to be fairly well designed, with one main shortcoming.

But austerity is not working indeed, it is counterproductive.

The university sector has also been affected by the austerity measures.