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The Social Construction of the Acquis Communautaire: A Cornerstone of the European Edifice

Jorgensen, Knud Erik - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 04

The acquis communautaire is almost always (self-re)presented as a rock hard principle, as something applicant countries have to adapt to. Employing a Nietzsche-Foucauldian genealogical method, the paper explores an important instance of intersubjectivity of meaning among European integrators,...

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Treaty-Making in the European Union: Bargaining, Issue Linkages, and Efficiency

Dür, Andreas; Mateo, Gemma - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 10

A comparison of the results of the six most recent Intergovernmental Conferences (IGCs) in the European Union (EU) indicates that member governments' success in achieving substantial compromises based on issue linkages differs across cases. An examination of supranational and intergovernmental...

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Formal and Informal Institutions under Codecision: Continuous Constitution Building in Europe

Farrell, Henry; Héritier, Adrienne - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 03

Current approaches to the understanding of institutional change in the European Union have difficulty in understanding how intergovernmental bargaining and day-to-day institutional change interact. This article develops a theoretical framework to understand this interaction, and applies it to...

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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

Never has sovereignty been as fashionable as since its explanatory and normative force first came into doubt and its knell was tolled in the European Union. With the shift in authority away from the state to new sub-state, supra-state, post-state and non-state entities, an important question is...

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On Supranationality

Somek, Alexander - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 5 (2001) 04

European integration faces a quandary. Even though the European Union is on the eve of an unprecedented expansion, politicians and scholars claim that it lacks a coherent direction, and they speculate about what the finalité politique of European integration might look like. In this article it...

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On the Optimal Assignment of Competences in a Multi-Level Governed European Union

Breuss, Fritz; Eller, Markus - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 09

are: (i) A precise derivation of an optimal degree of decentralisation is not possible because of mixed theoretical … suggestions. The adequate degree of decentralisation has to be detected case-by-case. (ii) Systematic evidence on direct … relationships between economic performance and fiscal decentralisation is ambiguous and scarce. (iii) Comparing the actual and …

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Democratization, Europeanization and Regionalization beyond the European Union: Search for Empirical Evidence

Obydenkova, Anastassia - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 10 (2006) 01

This paper gives a viewpoint on a controversial issue of transnational regional cooperation (TRC) in Eurasia covering the analysis of cooperation between Europe and the regions of Russia. By promoting the favorable regime of transnational regional cooperation, both sides become more effective in...

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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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European governance still technocratic? New modes of governance for food safety regulation in the European Union

Fischer, Robert - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 12

This article contributes to the debate on technocratic governance in the European Union. It examines the relationship … law. To this end, a typology is developed to distinguish between decisionist, technocratic and reflexive governance … reflexive governance. To some extent, this change can also be observed in the general debate on European governance. In …

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