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policy choice. Instead, we advance an alternative explanation – subsequently referred to as ‘identity endorsement –that is … development of Portuguese identity has constituted what has been perceived as appropriate in the context of Eastern enlargement …. We argue that EC/EU membership has provided Portuguese political elites with a renewed collective identity, in which a …
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Eastern enlargement is a process in which the very identity of the European Union is under construction, with its …
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constitutional concept of reflection and debate is being replaced by identity. …
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and to the Islamic world Europe is accused of having a weak identity, the fruit of its prescriptive relativism. In this …
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Abstract AbstractThis paper reflects on the literature on courts and politics in Europe and the United States. US-American Political Science has dealt for over fifty years with the role of courts and judges as political actors, whereas this perspective has only recently emerged in Europe. The...
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The paper makes an attempt to map the Copenhagen criterion of democracy and the rule of law, one of the main instruments governing the biggest enlargement in the Union history. The meaning of it, however, is still as vague today as it was more than ten years ago, at the time of introduction of...
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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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It is well known that EU citizenship is parasitic upon national citizenship. To become an EU citizen it is necessary to be a citizen of one of the Member States, and the states have exclusive competence to decide who their own citizens are. They therefore function as gatekeepers, and jealously...
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Die Euro-Krise ist nicht nur ein Härtetest für die europäische Integration, sondern auch für die vielbeschworene „Solidarität unter Fremden und für die Annahme, dass europäische Identität zu dieser Solidarität führt. Jetzt muss sich zeigen, ob Europäerinnen und Europäer –...
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The aim of this paper is to shed light on the identity problem of the European Union (EU). In order to do so the EU …
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