Making Europe work: improving the transposition, implementation and enforcement of EU legislation

Jun 27, 2006

Lorenzo Allio

Marie-Hélène Fandel

This Working Paper warns that failure to ensure that EU laws are correctly applied and effectively enforced risks further undermining support for the integration process, and makes detailed recommendations to improve the transposition, implementation and enforcement of legislation.

Read the full paper here

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