We aim to identify the most influential members of the Agricultural Committee of the European Parliament (COMAGRI). Unlike previous studies that were based on case studies or interviews with stakeholders, we analyse the voting power of MEPs using a spatial Banzhaf power index. We identify...

We aim to identify the most influential members of the Agricultural Committee of the European Parliament (COMAGRI). Unlike previous studies that were based on case studies or interviews with stakeholders, we analyse the voting power of MEPs using a spatial Banzhaf power index. We identify...

EU-level decision-making has been already analysed from a number of point of views. Nevertheless, social network analysis in the context of the EU’s legislative procedures as well as in the European Parliament is still limited. The objective of this paper is to analyse the relationships of the...

Climate change is one of the biggest environmental problems of the 21st century. The most sensitive indicators of the effects of the climatic changes are phenological processes of the biota. The effects of climate change which were observed the earliest are the remarkable changes in the...

A Közös Agrárpolitika az Európai Unió meghatározó szakpolitikáinak egyike, mely a legnagyobb részesedést mondhatja magáénak a közös költségvetésből. Mivel a Lisszaboni Szerződés az együttdöntési eljárást a Közös Agrárpolitika jogalkotására is kiterjesztette, így...

Az Európai Parlamentnek az európai uniós döntéshozatalban, jogalkotásban betöltött szerepe régóta a politikatudományi elemzések tárgyát képezi. Ezek egy része az EP és az EU jogalkotásában részt vevő másik két intézmény – a bizottság és a tanács – egymáshoz...

Some health problems are considered by many individuals as a ‘normal’ part of ageing. Our aim was to investigate whether patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) consider different types and levels of health losses as acceptable beyond a certain age. A multicenter cross-sectional survey was...