El presente trabajo pretende abordar la compleja temática de la PAC desde los acontecimientos relacionados más recientes. El lector tiene en sus manos un recorrido periodístico sobre la PAC desde la cumbre europea que reunió a los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de los Veinticinco el mes de...

En los albores de la posguerra y a instancias de EEUU, es creada la OTAN, alianza político militar que legitimiza el poderío estadounidense con sus aliados europeos occidentales en el marco de la naciente Guerra Fría. Por otra parte, pocos años después, tras diversas negociaciones y...

The European Union’s center-piece of economic policy making is the Lisbon process, which tries to make Europe the most competitive economic region in the world economy by 2010. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso recently presented a Centre for European Reform (CER) study that...

En los albores de la posguerra y a instancias de EEUU, es creada la OTAN, alianza político militar que legitimiza el poderío estadounidense con sus aliados europeos occidentales en el marco de la naciente Guerra Fría.Durante décadas la alianza se centró en sus objetivos prioritarios: la...

In the EU candidate countries the citizens’ support for the democratic process is important for domestic democracy as well as the integration process. Many factors contribute to explain democratic support (Dalton 2004), and many aspects should be considered in order to have a good...

The development of the EU principles, particularly of the subsidiarity principle and of the proportionality principle, follows different directions, according to the different legal systems of Member States. In Germany, where the principles took origin, the structure of the Constitution itself...

The late surge of riots in almost every corner of France is certainly a French mess; however, it is likely to be both French mess and an unexpected collapse of the French civic illusion that turned out another mess and just exacerbated the whole mess. By definition of the Webster dictionary,...

Black Thursday made an impact on Greece rather late, namely in the year 1930. To be sure, the resources of Greece have always been limited; nevertheless, this country was able to absorb, in 1922 and 1923, a huge refugee influx from Asia Minor; and simultaneously the government tried hard to get...

La imperante heterogeneidad en la actual UE a 25 clama por una mayor flexibilización del proceso de integración europea. En una ocasión Jacques Delors dijo que podría manejar una Europa a 12, pero no a 15 o 16. Mientras, el 1 de mayo de 2004 tuvo lugar la hasta el momento ampliación más...

On the 24th of August, 2006, Ukraine celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of its independence but not only so: for the first time since parliamentary elections are held, the leaders of political parties signed a far-reaching compromise, the National Unity Pact, which declares “the constant...