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The Lisbon Treaty: A Sinuous Ratification

Corpadean, Adrian-Gabriel - In: CES Working Papers 3 (2011) 1, pp. 31-48

This article deals with the intricate ratification process of the Lisbon Treaty, while focusing on the thorny issues of Euroscepticism and democratic deficit within the European Union in the current institutional context. The study is based on a wide research endeavour, whose purpose has been to...

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The European Union and Christian Churches: The patterns of interaction

Mudrov, Sergei A. - 2014

This paper analyses the dialogue of Churches and EU institutions, with a focus on the Churches' representations at the European Union. These representations are described in accordance with the confessional divisions: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of...

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The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Union as an actor in international trade

Woolcock, Stephen - 2010

The Treaty of Lisbon will introduce a number of changes to European Union (EU) external trade policy decision making. These involve the scope of exclusive competence of the EU, the role of the European Parliament and the inclusion of trade in the common external action of the EU. This article...

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Taking Stock: EU Common Commercial Policy in the Lisbon Era

Kleimann, David - In: Aussenwirtschaft 66 (2011) 2, pp. 211-257

The first 16 months of the EU's common commercial policy (CCP) in the post-Lisbon period provide indicative insights into how the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council ofMinisters interpret their respective roles under the new legal framework introduced by the Lisbon...

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Who you gonna call? Oligarchic clans as a bottom-up force of neighborhood europeanization in Ukraine

Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer - 2008

This paper argues that, in the absence of a strong membership incentive within the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), a top-down institutional convergence of CIS countries towards European standards – i.e. democracy and market economy – is unlikely to be successful. However, due to...

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The convergence of welfare state indicators in Europe: Evidence from panel data

Paetzold, Jörg - 2012

This paper investigates whether there is a convergence in welfare state policies among the old EU member states. To identify such trends, we rely on pension and unemployment net replacement rates as well as on public social expenditures. Empirically, we use a sample of 14 economies (EU-15 excl....

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Convergence without hard criteria: Does EU soft law affect domestic unemployment protection schemes?

Paetzold, Jörg; van Vliet, Olaf - 2012

The European Employment Strategy (EES) aims to promote convergence of domestic labour market policies by soft law instruments. Previous studies on the impact of the EES are mainly focused on active labour market policies. The present study aims at explaining cross national variation in national...

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The "Europeanization" Of The Common Road Safety Policy: An Econometric Analysis

Castro-Nuno, Mercedes; Castillo-Manzano, Jose I.; … - 2013

Europeanization variable (the number of years that a country has been in the EU). By this variable, we test the effectiveness of EU …

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The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe

Dirzu, Madalina-Stefania - In: CES Working Papers 3 (2011) 1, pp. 49-54

systemic transformation of the CEECs through what is known in the literature as Europeanization. It seems to be a strong … connection between conditionality and Europeanization, the former giving way to the latter. Therefore the capacity and the … way in which the Europeanization process has succeeded in inhabiting the governance system of the CEECs. Considering these …

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The Europeanization of the Development Cooperation Policies: from Public Opinion to Public Policies

Negrescu, Victor - In: CES Working Papers 3 (2011) 2, pp. 293-313

Europeanization of the national policies, starting from the case studies of France, the Czech Republic and Romania, that will enable …

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