direct cross-border procurement

New working paper is out

I have just uploaded to SSRN a new working paper on the failure of the successive rounds of Directives in solving the direct cross-border issue. In short, home bias is as almost as present today as it was in the 1960s. For this one I dabbed a bit outside the

Procurement Directives Revision

Rethinking the procurement Directives: Do we even need a regulatory framework for EU public procurement at all?

The last big thinking piece I will be writing about the revision of the Directives is about questioning the need for secondary legislation at all in EU public procurement. The reason for that being that successive waves of Directives have failed in opening up the public procurement market so we

Procurement Directives Revision

Rethinking the procurement Directives: Making the case for a Regulation

For the first entry into this series about rethinking the procurement Directives, I am starting with the choice of legislative instrument since it shapes all regulatory decisions contained within as well as (hopefully) their enforcement. With this proposed change I am not arguing that changing legislative instrument will magically solve