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From ‘talking the talk’ to ‘walking the walk’: Implementing the EU guidelines on employment through the European Social Fund

Sanchez Salgado, Rosa - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 17 (2013) 06

This article investigates how the European Social Fund (ESF) is being employed to translate Lisbon/Europe 2020 goals on employment into domestic agendas. The emphasis is not only on how European priorities are taken into account by ESF national programming documents (talking the EU talk), but...

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European and National Identities in EU's Old and New Member States: Ethnic, Civic, Instrumental and Symbolic Components

Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia M.; Górniak, Jaroslaw Jósef; … - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07

. The three approaches considered here are, respectively: first, a "cultural" theory, which understands identities as being … based on ethno-cultural factors generated through a long-term (historical) process; second, an "instrumental" theory, which … identities are compatible. This is, in part, because while national identities are largely "cultural", European identities are …

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A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Corporate Lobbying in the European Parliament

Bouwen, Pieter - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 12

This paper is an attempt to empirically test a theory of access that investigates the logic behind the apparent ad hoc lobbying behavior of business interests in the European Parliament. The theoretical framework tries to explain the degree of access of different organizational forms of business...

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Introduction: Agency and influence inside the EU institutions

Servent, Ripoll; Ariadna; Busby, Amy - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 17 (2013) 07

The recent structural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon exemplify the dynamic and constantly evolving nature of the European Union (EU)’s institutional system. Given the gradual empowerment of EU institutions, this Special Issue focuses on bringing agents and agency into the study of...

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Bending the rules: Arrangements for sharing technical and political information between the EU institutions

Brandsma, Gijs Jan - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 17 (2013) 07

The European Union is typically modelled as a separation of powers system. Within this context, this article focuses on the exchange of technical and political information on policy-making between the EU institutions. Even though only very few formal rules are specified in the treaties and in...

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Governing the knowledge society: Studying Lisbon as epistemic setting

Pfister, Thomas - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

This paper is interested in the role of knowledge as resource, medium and product of governance as well as in ways of studying knowledge and processes of knowledge construction in EU governance. Its particular focus in this context is on the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) and the Lisbon...

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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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Taming the ‘Trojan Horse’ of Comitology? Accountability issues of Comitology and the Role of the European Parliament

Neuhold, Christine - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 04

The European Commission plays a major role as regulator in the process of implementation of European legislation. Just looking at the figures of implementing measures one will find that the Commission adopts more than 2.500 such legal acts per year. As is well known the Commission is not alone...

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Images of the EU in EPA negotiations: Angel, demon - or just human?

Elgström, Ole - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 12

A striking feature of the discourses surrounding the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and developing states is the starkly contrasting pictures given of the role and nature of the EU. The Union is either portrayed as an angel, an actor with altruistic objectives,...

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The impact of Union citizenship on national citizenship policies

Rostek, Karolina; Davies, Gareth - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 10 (2006) 07

It is well known that EU citizenship is parasitic upon national citizenship. To become an EU citizen it is necessary to be a citizen of one of the Member States, and the states have exclusive competence to decide who their own citizens are. They therefore function as gatekeepers, and jealously...

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