The EU is not a member of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), but relatively elaborate EU coordination takes … place anyway. This paper addresses two research questions: 1) How is it possible to evaluate the coordination of the EU in … analysis of EU coordination before and during the International Labour Conference in 2005, and on a comparison with …

"pessimists" concentrate on the question of whether the OMC can "strengthen" EU social policy and therefore European welfare …

In the second half of the nineties, a number of EU Member States went through intense public controversies over agro …-constellations, led national governments to adopt biotechnology aversive policies, and prompted a considerable tightening of the EU's agro …

In this paper we examine the transposition of European Union (EU) legislation in the twelve 'new' member states during …. While Lithuania, Hungary as well as Slovenia are the best performers, the transposition of EU legislation is less effective … trade with the EU, bureaucratic capacity and pre-accession policy alignment. We conclude that in the intermediate …

functioning of EU level committees, which can be used as bases for future research …

EU public-policy making throughout the years of European integration (1951-2008) and whether the endorsement of the … childcare provision, and traces their presence and dynamic development at the EU level. Based on a keyword search in the …

EU competence for drafting specific legislation in this area remains unfulfilled potential, while EU legislation in other … "effective" in that it provides opportunities to create policy windows of opportunity which EU and national policymakers use in … applying it to both the EU level and the (most likely) case of Belgium, I conclude that the pension OMC influences, against the …

As the European Union (EU) has strengthened, scholars have emphasized the development of multilevel governance … of these soft principles to lower levels of government. These propositions are explored using data gathered in the EU …

In this article, we analyse the development of new modes of governance in EU employment and social policy over the past … of Coordination, new instruments of coordinating national policies were introduced to EU policy-making. Recently, the …