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Equal Opportunities between Men and Women and Gender Mainstreaming under the European Employment Strategy (EES) and the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) – A New Policy Approach to...

Braams, Beate - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 12

The aim of this article is to analyse the development of the concepts of equal opportunities between men and women and gender mainstreaming with regard to a new policy approach taken outside the traditional community method and to raise the question to what extent these policy instruments can be...

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EU law 'transformed'? Evaluating accountability and subsidiarity in the 'streamlined' OMC for Social Inclusion and Social Protection

Dawson, Mark - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

From initially defining new governance processes as external to 'traditional' forms of EU law, a number of academic scholars have begun to argue that methods like the OMC can be seen as indicative of a broader 'transformation' of European law-making. The transformation thesis relies on seeing...

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Elements of a sociology of European integration

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2008

How can sociology contribute to the understanding of the social and political transformations that are affecting contemporary Europe? The article proposes that sociological accounts of European integration should focus around the basic problem of internal differentiation and external adaptation...

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The European Charter - Between deep Diversity and Constitutional Patriotism?

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the type of allegiance that the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union is based on. Charters as Bills of Rights establish or entrench fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law, and the relevant sense of allegiance and attachment...

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Three conceptions of the European Constitution

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2003

for a conception that determines the legitimacy basis of constitutional norms. This has considerable implications for the … legitimacy. That has not yet been met in the European Union, but it might be attained in forthcoming constitutional moments. …

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A Polity without a State? European Constitutionalism between Evolution and Revolution

Brunkhorst, Hauke - ARENA - 2003

In this paper the relationship between constitution and state is analysed. The EU's constitutional structure is evaluated according to three ideas of constitutionalism: the evolutionary or functionalist idea; the power-binding idea; and the power-establishing or revolutionary idea. It is found that...

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The Convention and the national parliamentary dimension

Maurer, Andreas - ARENA - 2005

legitimacy of the constitutional set-ups of the EU member states and of the Union itself. Whatever institutional arrangements …

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Reflexive Integration in Europe

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2004

Integration may occur through coercion and intergovernmental bargaining - through blackmail, tradition, functional adaptation, copying, diffusion or exit - but it may also occur through reflexive reason-giving and entrenched commitments. The usefulness of such an approach to transnational and...

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Contemporary European constitution-making: constrained or reflexive?

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2005

that gave the Convention its mandate) has managed to come up with a solution to the EUs legitimacy deficit. My focus here …, transformative, and moral. Each strategy is developed so as to yield a diagnosis of the EUs legitimacy deficit, which serves as a …

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Will the Constitutional Treaty Contribute to the Legitimacy of the European Union?

Abromeit, Heidrun; Wolf, Sebastian - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 08

The article explores whether the Constitutional Treaty may provide more legitimacy for governance in the European Union … on the use of Union power are suboptimal; the EU's weak 'input legitimacy' is not strengthened. On the other side, the … enhanced legitimacy, the overall picture, albeit somewhat daunting, is not altogether bleak. …

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