The problem-solving capacity of multi-level governance. Introduction

As economic integration deepens globally and even more so within the European Community, national capacities to regulate and to tax mobile capital and firms are reduced, whereas governance at European or international levels is constrained by conflicts of interest among the governments involved. The effectiveness of problem solving at the national and European and international levels varies considerably from one field to another. Identifies factors that could explain the varying intensity and direction of competitive pressures on national regulatory systems, as well as the greater or lesser political feasibility of European or international regulation. (Original abstract - amended)