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In the Shadow of the Constitution: Common Foreign and Security Policy/European Security and Defence Policy Adapting to a Changing External Environment

Nickel, Dietmar; Quille, Gerrard - Jean Monnet Chair - 2007

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....

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The Recent Case Law on Locus Standi of Private Applicants under Art. 230 (4) EC: A Missed Opportunity or A Velvet Revolution?

Kombos, Constantinos - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 12

The theme of the article is the ECJ's approach to the standing of private applicants in actions of annulment. The analysis places the emphasis on the Opinions by AG Jacobs and the rulings of the CFI and the ECJ in UPA and Jégo-Quérè and on the limited changes proposed under the Draft...

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Social Europe and Experimentalist Governance: Towards a New Constitutional Compromise?

Zeitlin, Jonathan - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2005

three critical questions concerning the OMC’s legitimacy (its relation to subsidiarity, the ‘Community Method’, and …, governance, and mutual learning. I argue that both the democratic legitimacy and the practical effectiveness of existing OMC …

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Domestic Politics and Referendums on the Constitutional Treaty

González, Gemma Mateo - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2006

referendum be explained? Recently, some scholars have considered the need to give legitimacy to the decisions of the EU as one of …

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The EU’s fledgling society: From deafening silence to critical voice in European constitution making

Fossum, John Erik; Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2005

The European Union is presently at a major crossroads. The Laeken process which launched the EU onto an explicit constitution-making process, has ground to a halt after the negative referendum results in France and the Netherlands. The European Council at its 16-17 June 2005 meeting decided to...

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Coping with Conflict at Constitutional Moments

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2002

It is a commonplace to argue that democracies require constitutional rules in order to function well; in particular, such rules facilitate conflict resolution and secure a civilized co-existence. Democratic governance signifies an ability to purposefully shape political and social life;...

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Deliberation and the problem of democratic legitimacy in the EU: Are working agreements the most that can be expected?

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2006

-national legitimacy? The author contends that democracy can only prevail with egalitarian procedures of law making in place through which … discourse modelled on a less demanding concept of democratic legitimacy. The concept of a working agreement is introduced in … order to establish such concept legitimacy as well as to account for the constitutional developments of the EU. …

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Neither Constitution, Nor Treaty

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2005

The Constitutional Treaty of the European Union cannot be said to be a Constitution in the same sense that the term is generally used in most European countries. It is not a Constitution in the same sense that the German, Italian or Czech constitutions. This is mainly so because neither the...

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Reflexive Integration in Europe

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2004

Integration may occur through coercion and intergovernmental bargaining - through blackmail, tradition, functional adaptation, copying, diffusion or exit - but it may also occur through reflexive reason-giving and entrenched commitments. The usefulness of such an approach to transnational and...

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Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik

Follesdal, Andreas; Hix, Simon - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2005

In a series of recent papers, Giandomenico Majone and Andrew Moravcsik have ‘raised the bar’ in the debate over the so-called ‘democratic deficit’ in the European Union. These two influential scholars both contend that much of the existing analysis is flawed and that the EU is as...

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