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This article contributes to the debate on technocratic governance in the European Union. It examines the relationship between scientific expertise and policy-making in the foodstuffs sector and scrutinises the hypothesis that the European Commission follows a technocratic model in the food...
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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 European Commission plays a major role as regulator in the process of implementation of European legislation. Just looking at the figures of implementing measures one will find that the Commission adopts more than 2.500 such legal acts per year. As is well known the Commission is not alone...
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This paper studies the basic characteristics of the political legitimacy of the European Parliament (EP) within the … supranational political system of the European Union (EU) and argues that an increase in the political legitimacy of the EP might … provide a solution to the legitimacy problem at the EU level of supranational governance. The case study of misleading …
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Altneuland: The European Constitutional Terrain It is in many respects a New Land - for the first time the Union is openly, officially using the word Constitution in its formal self-understanding. But this, in turn, places it, at least lexically, in the age old terrain of constitutionalism which...
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legitimacy. With regard to the EU, participation of civil society organisations are officially seen as a means of bridging the … legitimacy of the EU and is instrumental to institutional power games of the European Commission and the European Parliament …
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Whereas domestic public policy is increasingly penetrated by international organisations, domestic government institutions seem less adaptive. This puzzle triggers the following question: To what extent is the Europeanisation of domestic Research and Higher Educational policy (R&E policy)...
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