In just a few months, COVID-19–a disease caused by a novel coronavirus known as SARS-
CoV-2–appeared in China and quickly spread to the rest of the world, including Europe and …

Scholarly interest in EU financial regulation and economic governance has increased
sharply over the last decade, but the literature on their politics remains fragmented. We …

Has the European Semester led to a displacement of Social Europe, or to the development
of social policy through fiscal processes and actors?–Potential for Semester to increase soft …

Does domestic contestation of European Union legitimacy affect the behaviour of the
European Commission as an economic and fiscal supervisor? We draw on theories of …

Background The article explores in how far financial accessibility of healthcare (FAH) is
restricted for low-income groups and identifies social protection policies that can supplement …

As part of the European Semester, the European Commission issues country-specific
recommendations for all member states. I contribute to the literature on this political …

In the context of macro-economic surveillance, the European Union (EU) increasingly
addresses national health system reform. Member States receiving financial assistance are …

The European Semester, launched in 2011, enhances the coordination of macroeconomic
policies among European Union member states. This article contributes to the lively …

Health services have long been insulated from the process of European integration. In this
article, however, we show that we are witnessing their re-configuration in an emerging EU …

Reports on the implementation of the Directive on the application of Patients' Rights in Cross-
border Healthcare indicate that it had little impact on the numbers of patients seeking care …