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process of Europeanization, identifying caveats in the security of energy supply. It then proposes a solution to the main …For decades after founding the ECSC (1951) the member states have relegated the issue of joint supranational energy …, European states gradually consolidated their position in favour of supranational energy policy development. This paper presents …
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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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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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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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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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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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Europeanization of the national policies, starting from the case studies of France, the Czech Republic and Romania, that will enable …
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In the last decade we have seen the creation process of a common Energy Policy, which was gradually adopted by all … Community countries, and has promoted an integrated competitive European energy market, increased security of supply and … supported the use renewable energy sources. But in order for this policy to work efficiently, it also had to promote …
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The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the …
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The paper offers an analytical framework for understanding the outcome of domestic changes in response to the processes of Europeanisation and regionalisation. It examines the impact of these processes on the role of subnational actors in Slovenia as an EU accession state. The analysis reveals...
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