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Combating complexity: the integration of EU climate and energy policies

Dupont, Claire; Primova, Radostina - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 15 (2011) 11

strong participation of climate advocates in the policy process. The article suggests that the expansion of EU competence in …

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Citizenship Under Regime Competition: The Case of the European Works Councils"

Streeck, Wolfgang - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 04

Europe will not turn into a federal state. As a consequence citizenship in Europe will remain nationally based. Due to the joint commitment of European Union member states to the freedoms of a common market, national citizenship regimes have become accountable to supranational rules, obliging...

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Domestic and supranational political opportunities: European protest in selected countries 1980-1995

Reising, Uwe K.H. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 2 (1998) 07

This paper attempts to explain the rates of European protest in three core countries of the EEC/EU the Belgium, France, and Germany over a sixteen-year period from 1980 to 1995 based on their institutional differences as suggested by the literature on political opportunity structures. First, the...

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Opportunity Structures for Citizens' Participation: The Case of the European Union

Nentwich, Michael - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) (1996) 11

democratic systems. It introduces the notion of 'opportunity structures for citizens' participation' (OSCPs) and analyses seven …

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A more coherent European wide legal language

Heutger, Viola - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 03

In this paper I would like to elaborate on the interaction between law and language. The use of the different (legal) languages of the European Union Member States is one of the most practical and most difficult problems in the process of European integration. The linguistic matters are directly...

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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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Integration Through Participation Introductory Notes to the Study of Administrative Integration

Trondal, Jarle - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 3 (1999) 04

and frequency of cross-level interaction and participation amongst the members of these systems, and (ii) the principles …-level participation foster changes in the identities, role conceptions and modes of acting amongst the organization members of these … sheer intensity and length of cross-level participation. Thirdly, I argue that administrative systems being organized …

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Corporatist Governance and Europeanisation: No Future in the Multi-level Game?

Falkner, Gerda - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 1 (1997) 06

This article argues that against all odds, the corporatist inclusion of the major societal interests in public decision-making is still a relevant governance mechanism in the European multi-level system. At the national level,a diversity of systems continues to operate. At least in some cases,...

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Against the odds. The Open Method of Coordination as a selective amplifier for reforming Belgian pension policies

Vanhercke, Bart - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

Tackling pensions' problems means engaging with what Pierson (2001) has called 'immovable objects'. Additionally, the EU competence for drafting specific legislation in this area remains unfulfilled potential, while EU legislation in other policy areas creates indirect pressures on national...

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What kind of consensus? Conflicting notions of effectiveness within the Social Protection Committee

Horvath, Anna - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11

The Social Protection Committee (SPC) is the main forum for exchanging information and best practices among the member states within the framework of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the fields of social protection and social inclusion. This implies that looking at how and when the SPC...

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