Financial doping and financial fair play in European Club football competitions

Addresses the emerging area of manipulation in professional sports by bringing a collection of original contributions together in one volume for the first time Provides an interdisciplinary approach, combining economic, business administrative and legal issues, that enables a complete overview for any scholar interested in the global economics of, and manipulation of sport, in general Presents contributions from world class scholars that are well known in their area

Subsidy Regulation in WTO Law: Some Implications for Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy

This contribution discusses WTO subsidies disciplines in the context of the energy sector. After laying out the relevant disciplines, it will discuss the paradox of WTO law with respect to subsidies towards fossil fuels vis-à-vis those towards renewable energy. It is clear that subsidies on clean energy production and consumption are needed to correct market failures and to promote legitimate policy goals such as contributing to sustainable development through the scale up of clean energy, including expanding its trade.2 However, experience has shown that support schemes for clean energy by their nature and design make them sensitive to WTO dispute settlement. Much more harmful subsidies on fossil fuels, on the other hand, are omnipresent yet often escape being addressed in the multilateral trading system. The contribution will draw upon the examples of ‘energy dual pricing’ and Feed-In Tariffs (FITs). It will argue that while it may be difficult to tackle fossil fuels subsidies in the WTO forum, more efforts are needed to (re)legalise environmental subsidies