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Abstract: The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is understood as an important new "instrument" in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) "toolbox", designed to respond to the contemporary security environment as well as to overcome the inaction and hesitancy of the past....
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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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political system of the EU and of its democratic legitimacy. …
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institutions - the typical Community pattern - direct administration by the EU institutions or co-administration which implies some … coordination between both types of institutions. In an organic perspective, it can be allocated to the European Commission, EC … participative democracy, of administrative cooperation as well as general principles of European administrative law - for instance …
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In the second half of the nineties, a number of EU Member States went through intense public controversies over agro-food biotechnology. These controversies occurred almost synchronously, brought about parallel issue-framings and actor-constellations, led national governments to adopt...
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state of European constitutionalism and of some changes in its landscape, arguing that democracy as the central …
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This paper begins with the concept of central bank independence and focuses its argument around one of its major drawbacks the potential absence of accountability by the monetary authority. Then, beyond defining an alternative legal central bank independence index, we analyse the current...
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