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Speaking with forked tongues - Swedish public administration and the European employment strategy

Casula Vifell, Åsa - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 07

The aim of this paper is to understand how decision making processes within the EU comes to affect the structures for national policy making within the employment field. The paper addresses the question of how the process of writing new employment guidelines for the EES – European employment...

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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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Theorising the New Modes of European Union Governance

Eberlein, Burkard; Kerwer, Dieter - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 04

Recently, 'new modes of governance' based on voluntary performance standards, rather than compulsory regulation, have gained salience in European Union governance. Can these 'new modes of governance' offer a credible solution to the challenges faced by EU policy making? We argue that a critical...

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The Constitution Debate

Schneider, Heinrich - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 03

The paper deals with certain questions and problems of the constitutionalization of the European Union which did not receive very much attention from the Convention on the Future of Europe and from the observers of that Conventions work, but which, nevertheless, may be relevant whenever the...

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Sovereignty in Conflict

Besson, Samantha - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 09

risks of erosion implied by constitutional pluralism, while also enhancing the legitimacy of the European polity. This can …

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Understanding the Role of Bureaucracy in the European Security and Defence Policy: The State of the Art

Vanhoonacker, Sophie; Dijkstra, Hylke; Heidi, Maurer - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 14 (2010) 08

The establishment of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in 1999 has led to the creation of a whole range of bureaucratic bodies in Brussels and the national capitals. These bodies support the crisis management operations of the European Union. This review article presents the state...

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