The aim of the article is to present different facets of those movements that have been opposed to European Union in France since the early 90’s. Our purpose is not to describe the historical development of these movements, but to present their doctrines as well as the various alternatives...

В статье рассматриваются признаки, характеризующие муниципальную власть в Российской Федерации

The article deals with role of historical memory in the context of two referenda which have been held in 2014 — in Scotland on the18th of September and in Catalonia on the 9th of November, although not recognised by the Spanish government. Both of themreflect the issue of how the imperial past...

Abstract: The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is understood as an important new "instrument" in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) "toolbox", designed to respond to the contemporary security environment as well as to overcome the inaction and hesitancy of the past....

Abstract: This paper, which is based on information provided by national reports submitted from 17 member states and one candidate state, reflects on the aftermath of the non-ratification of the Constitutional Treaty (TECE), and more specifically on the particular path chosen by EU political...

In this paper we show that lobbying in conditions of “direct democracy” is virtually impossible, even in conditions of complete information about voters preferences, since it would require solving a very computationally hard problem. We use the apparatus of parametrized complexity for this...