An Interest Stabilisation Mechanism to Unburden the ECB by Ivo Arnold

“…Abstract Following the twin crises of sovereign debt and COVID-19, the ECB risks being stuck in a situation of fiscal dominance, in which monetary policy is subordinated to the needs of finance ministers. …”
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Democracies in Action: A Foucaultian Perspective on British and French Tax Enforcement by Coralie RAFFENNE, Marika TOUMI

“…Our approach highlights a different reality.Securing revenue for the sovereign or the state has been at the heart of the historical transformation of political regimes. …”
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Espace et art de la formule visuelle à Rome sous le pontificat de Pascal Ier (817-824) : l’exemple de la basilique Sainte-Praxède  by Raphaël Demès

“…These visual forms are fused together in the St Prassede’s decoration and helped to enhance the office of the sovereign pontiff. In this decorated set, Pascal 1st was placed in a half-position between Roman founder martyrs, the apostles and Jesus-Christ.…”
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The Personal Values of Small-Business Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Brazil by Daniel Lima, Edson Kubo, Eduardo Oliva

“…It rethinks professionalism, no longer as a dependent variable, but as a personal value, like the rest, in independent, innovative and sovereign way.…”
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Adéquations et inadéquations du découpage territorial aux contextes politiques et économiques by Christian Vandermotten

“…Even if the principalities which will constitute present Belgium are ruled by the same Sovereign,except for the episcopal principality of Liège, he will not be able to impose a strong centralised administration against the resistances of the traditional counter-powers and another territorial pattern than the complex one inherited from the feudal situation. …”
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Mobiliser ses réseaux pour défendre son honneur : une stratégie pour obtenir justice des maréchaux de France aux xviie et xviiie siècles by Romain Benoit-Lévy

“…This article analyzes the times and forms of mobilization of different types of networks in honor cases brought before the Tribunal des maréchaux de France. This sovereign royal court has had the mission, since the middle of the 16th century, to offer a judicial, non-violent and honorable issue for the point d’honneur of nobles and soldiers. …”
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Le corps des rois des rois dans la ville : Ménélik II et Haylé Sellasé à Addis Abeba by Estelle Sohier

“…Menelik II and Haile Selassie, the two major Ethiopian sovereigns during the 20th century, both experienced troubles in their lives and at the end of their reigns: no funeral ceremonies were held at the time of their death. …”
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La mer, miroir de la légitimité du califat nasride. À propos du Khaṭrat al-ṭayf d’Ibn al-Khaṭîb (1347) by Yann Dejugnat

“…As announces it the title which is a quotation of the sura CVI of the Koran, Ibn al-Khaṭîb proceeded to a coranisation of the riḥla by likening the official procession of the sovereign Yûsuf I between Granada and Almeria to the route of the caravans of Quraysh between Mecca and Ṭâ’if. …”
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Les villes romaines victimes des guerres perses dans l’œuvre de Procope de Césarée by Sylvain Janniard

“…Procopius draws from this a general lesson on the necessary unity of peoples in the face of the external threat and behind the will of their sovereign. Finally, his story offers him the opportunity to affirm his Christian faith.…”
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BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE IN 2022 by Lawrence Olabode Ekundayo

“…The research problem of the paper is the justifications for waging war against a sovereign nation. It is the aim of the paper to investigate the causes of the invasion and the objective is to know the direct effects of the invasion on Nigeria. …”
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« Comment se comporter avec un roi chrétien » : l’ouvrage perdu d’Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Qaṭṭān et les enjeux du cérémonial almohade by Mehdi Ghouirgate

“…It is the only source that has recorded information on the conduct to be adopted by the sovereign in a ceremony in the presence of a foreign prince. …”
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Picturebooks and politics: Israeli children’s picturebooks during the shift from pre-state to statehood by Yael Darr

“…During the first decade of Israeli statehood children’s picturebooks decisively disencumbered the children of their former active political tasks, thus implementing a new politics of a civic society in a sovereign state. …”
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Unknown Future of the Banking Union’s Third Pillar by Klaudia Zielińska

“…This stems from both the bad financial standing of some of the euro area banks and their dependency on the sovereign debt of their home and host countries. Studies also indicate low operational readiness of the national schemes, so a transition from re-insurance onto co-insurance phase will require increased efforts of both the Member States and the banks themselves.…”
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Several Remarks on the Throne Based on the Sphragistics Evidences of Lithuanian Rulers from the End of the XIV to the Middle of the XV Centuries by Loreta Skurvydaitė

“…Gediminas' majesty seal is known only from the description, which reveals that the ruler holds the sovereign crown in his hand. The ruler is sitting in a cathedra. …”
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What drives the profitability of banking sectors in the European Union? The machine learning approach by Bernardelli Michał, Korzeb Zbigniew, Niedziółka Paweł

“…The results show that the sets of variables shaping the profitability of banking sectors in the EU grouped by use of sovereign rating criterion are different. However, there are variables common to all banking sectors. …”
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Public-private partnerships in National Security. A case study in the context of the war in Ukraine: 2022-2024 by Iryna Dragan, Tetiana Panfilova, Iryna Chistiakova, Roman Tatarinov

“…Since February 2022, with the so-called “special military operation” the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine, violating the national sovereignty of this country and all norms of public international law guaranteeing relations between civilized sovereign states. As in any war, a key element in the defense of national sovereignty lies in the strategic partnership of the public sector, with private enterprise, to confront the invader. …”
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Narratologiese ondersoek na Daniël 1: God beloon getrouheid by M. Nel

“…The narratological discussion implies that Daniel 1 conveys the message: God is in control of what is happening with His people. His reign is sovereign. He is where His children are. His children are there because He put them there. …”
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São Tomé e Principe, as ilhas do meio do mundo: avaliação crítica sobre sua geografia política by André-Louis Sanguin

“…São Tomé e Principe, The Middle of the World’s Islands: a critical Assessment about their Political Geography- São Tomé e Principe, a sovereign state which is located within the Gulf of Guinea, is one example of the specific political geography issues faced by an archipelagic microstate. …”
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Document publication. Survey of 1545 Livonia and the Great Duchy of Lithuania borderline audit (Livonian officers report) by Tomas Čelkis, Darius Antanavičius

“…Unilateral line reviews are usual in sovereign office correspondence with a neighbor state, informing the latter about the practice that had been undertaken. …”
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Ludic Populism and Its Unpopular Subversion by Sascha Pöhlmann

“…Understanding the political as a way of imagining a community as a political actor through symbolic practices, either in the interest of creating the sovereign of democratic systems or an ethnicity, I argue that video games may employ a populist imagination in constructing ‘the people’ as a basically unified group (usually in implicitly or explicitly essentialist ways) as much as they may resist or subvert this populist fantasy of homogeneity. …”
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