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Rarely in recent years has a violent ethnic conflict been so clearly foreseen by so many experts as in the case of Kosovo. The escalation of the conflict in early 1999 led to a specific combination of war, terror and genocide which was very different from traditional civil and international war....
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Abstract: On June 30, 2009, the German Constitutional Court declared the Lisbon Treaty to be compatible with the German constitution. The Lisbon decision marked the end of an intense constitutional battle. The following text illustrates how different views on and different understandings of...
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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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instruments governing the biggest enlargement in the Union history. The meaning of it, however, is still as vague today as it was … in the context of enlargement? What exactly is required of the candidate countries in order to meet this criterion? Based … paper outlines the core structure of the criterion and assesses the degree of change brought to the enlargement regulation …
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The recent research on EU’s role in democratization in the post-communist world has been primarily concerned with its new member states of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the prospective member states. A great deal of knowledge is now available on EU’s impact on members or prospective...
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This article analyses the extent to which the European Union (EU) constitutes a normative power in its relations with Moldova. ‘Normative power Europe’ is examined along three dimensions: (i) normative intent; (ii) normative process; and (iii) normative impact. Our empirical analysis focuses...
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In this paper, I discuss whether enlargement has been a successful external policy of the European Union (EU). In … countries, and therefore can be judged to have been a success. I focus on two sets of enlargement rounds where the potential for … twelve new Member States acceded, mostly from the post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. I conclude that enlargement has …
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