The European Union (EU) has, with increasing frequency, outlined an intention to strengthen its "digital sovereignty" as a basis for safeguarding European values in the digital age. Yet, uncertainty remains as to how the term should be defined, undermining efforts to assess the success of the...

Entgegen dem von verschiedenen Medien unterstützten Eindruck - verstärkt durch die Eurokrise 2011 und das Brexit-Votum 2016 -, dass sich die Europäische Union in einer Dauerkrise befindet, hat die Union im letzten Jahrzehnt bemerkenswerte institutionelle Fortschritte erzielt. Dies betrifft...

The Mercosur 1995–2000 Action Program (Decision No. 09/95 of the Mercosur Common Market Council (CMC)) stated that the strengthening of the integration process required more intensive participation on the part of society. The guidelines based on that Action Program were elaborated by the...

The EEC, now the EU, has passed its half-century. The sixty plus years have witnessed development, change and evolution that will be charted in the chapters of this book. This chapter seeks to lay the groundwork for later discussion by considering two related issues. The first half of the...