Bulgaria and European Union: A research report
Tutorials/exercises - 22 pages - European union
The development of a global financial market transforms the individual countries' and domestic capital markets into connected single financial environment, where investors can take advantage of numerous investment opportunities. The dynamic growth and gradual integration of the Bulgarian capital...
Bulgaria in the European Union: A framework (proposal) of the dissertation
Essay - 2 pages - European union
Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007 - shortly before the world was hit by the global financial and economic crisis. The situation turned into an unprecedented challenge for the new Member State. The aim of this dissertation is to provide us with sufficient information about the current...
Civil-military relations in Kosovo - the stakes of the European involvement
Essay - 4 pages - European union
In 2003, after the outbreak of European divisions over the question of Iraq, the European Council adopted the European Strategy developed by Javier Solana in a document, 'A secure Europe in a Better World', stating that 'Europe should be ready to share in the responsibility for global...
The "No camp" in the 2009 referendum in Ireland
Essay - 5 pages - European union
To understand the context, we have to go back a couple of years, 2008. As we know, there was the first Lisbon referendum, that we can also call The Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008, which had the goal of the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon. Most of the European countries...
European Economy
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The 2004 enlargement of the European Union not only increased its number of member states, but looking at the economic, political and cultural situation of the new member countries, most of them under communist rule until recently, with the opening of the iron curtain and the disappearance of the...
"The Contribution of the European central bank in the confrontation of the crisis. The case of Greece"
Essay - 3 pages - European union
The situation of Greek's finances is catastrophic: a public deficit of 12.7% of the GDP in 2009 and 9.4% in 2010. A public debt of 300 billion euros at the end of 2009 and expected at 12.0% of the GDP in 2010 while the limit imposed by the EU is 3% of the PIB. This problem worried the markets...
How and why were the european communities created?
Essay - 3 pages - European union
The European Community called the European Union since the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992, is a political and economic community of twenty-seven member states and almost 500 million people. In this essay, I will make clear the reasons and the means which permits the EU to become a major world power...
The expansion of the European Union will undermine the basic principles of founding fathers - A Discussion
Essay - 1 pages - European union
When the European Union was first established, its founding fathers displayed the simplest of its principles. Two of the most important ones were war-free trade and a minimum of conflicts between the countries, apart from the obvious hope of increasing trade gains between the union's members,...
Translators and interpreters of the European Parliament: Do they have a role in the debate?
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The European Union is an international organization based on multiculturalism and multilingualism, which implies the presence of different ideologies. The texts we are studying are taken from a debate at the European Parliament, about women's rights in Afghanistan. This is quite a hazardous...
Turkey and the European Union: just another enlargement?
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The adhesion of Turkey into the European Union is a current debate which inflames politicians and public opinion alike. The possible adhesion of Turkey into the Union is part of a wide enlargement process, which began since the construction of what we call today the European Union. However, in...
State surveillance in Hungary
Essay - 7 pages - European union
As a general principle, all relevant evidence in a case should be available for inspection by all concerned parties. However, the public interest may dictate that certain evidence is withheld, and thus frustrate the interests of justice. We need to critically evaluate the mechanisms which exist...
The implementation of free movement and border regulation
Essay - 6 pages - European union
In 1989, Hungary made history by opening the iron curtain and allowing the citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to pass through the country to West Germany. These actions not only led to the fall of the iron curtain and the Berlin wall but these were also Hungary's first steps on...
Fighting terrorism in Hungary
Essay - 9 pages - European union
Terrorism has been plaguing mankind for many years and it is not an unknown phenomenon to the European Union either. The dangers of terrorism present consistent problems in some of the member States in the European Union. This is because of different kinds of terrorist organizations and groups...
The cooperation between the criminal justice system and the drug treatment services
Essay - 10 pages - European union
The French police arrested about 15 000 drug users in 2008. The penal sanction for drug use is given in article L3421-1 in the Code of Public Health. Drugs have been consumed by many French citizens for a long time. However, since the twentieth century, this consumption has been increasing. Drug...
The Common Agricultural Policy
Essay - 10 pages - European union
Agriculture, is to date, the economic sector in which the integration of the EU members has gone the farthest. The success of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), is the result of the elaboration of some basic principles aiming to establish a common market. Since the CAP implementation in 1962,...
The Relationship between the European Union and the South Mediterranean Countries: An Incomplete partnership submitted to the union's interests and fears
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The Mediterranean area presents a particular structure. The Northern part of the region is composed of Western, developed countries belonging to the European Union, such as France, Spain, Italy and Greece. The Southern part is the African coast, including Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan,...
International organized crime in Hungary
Essay - 6 pages - European union
After the EU-accession on 1 May 2004, a great increase was witnessed in the turnover of the organized crime groups, which became more flexible and versatile, effectively penetrating more legitimate businesses. Especially as the borders opened up due to Schengen, it became much easier for crime...
The evolution of the Schengen Area
Course material - 8 pages - European union
Since the introduction of free movement as an economic and fundamental right for EU citizens, the European Union has established a long list of measures, directives and other attempts to provide an open but safe area within the borders of the Union. The European security management has been...
The implementation of the Third Pillar of theEuropean Union in the United Kingdom
Essay - 15 pages - European union
The establishment of the European Union (EU) Policy within the third pillar of the United Kingdom (UK) has changed substantially over the past decades and more with the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty. Originally the UK had been reluctant to acknowledge or embrace European integration, due to...
L'Union européenne et ses voisins orientaux
Essay - 5 pages - European union
Since the creation of the European Union, a community of fifteen states defined in the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, the question of enlargement is subject to controversy. The years pass, the European project more fictional than real continues to face the harsh reality of a heterogeneous Europe and...
The evolution of the European Community / Union over the last 50 years
Thesis - 5 pages - European union
Fifty years after the Treaties of Rome (1957), the European Union has deeply evolved. From a regional economic cooperation, it has become a major international actor looking for re-launching its Constitutional process. If the European cooperation was a revolutionary concept after more than a...
National Parliaments and the European Union - publié le 18/03/2010
Essay - 5 pages - European union
The adoption of the Lisbon Treaty on December 1, 2009 puts into perspective new dimensions of the role of national parliaments into the decisional core of the European Union. Indeed, this Treaty offers to the national parliaments more power to intervene into European affairs but it also...
The implementation of EU Policy within the third pillar in the Netherlands
Course material - 26 pages - European union
The treaty of Maastricht has established European Citizenship, increased the authority of the European Parliament and helped the European and Monetary Union to start. Than EEC changed to European Communities (EC). The Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters correspond to the third...
Politics of the European Union - publié le 10/03/2010
Essay - 5 pages - European union
The single European Act, provided to the European Parliament its first real legislative powers, powers that seem to have been enlarged in each treaty since, while its ability to monitor and control the executive, though embedded in the treaty of Rome, seems to have been increased in a similar...
The European Central Bank (ECB)
Essay - 14 pages - European union
The Eurosystem includes the national central bank (NCB) and the European central bank (ECB). All states that have central bank in the eurosystem are in the European Union and there are 27 member states. The countries which have not adopted the Euro but that are in the European central bank...
Movement and Residence of Workers and their Family within the European Union
Essay - 2 pages - European union
One of the freedoms within the single market of the European Union is the free movement of workers. The European Union is now, considered as a "single territory" without internal boundaries. This should mean that no restriction should be seen on the mobility of workers through the different...
Is there still a "class voting" in European countries?
Essay - 15 pages - European union
Electoral sociology was born in the US after World War II. The survey of Paul Lazarsfeld and his team from the University of Columbia showed that the presidential campaign had little influence on voting. Political choices are not linked to perceptions of issues since few people change their...
European Union and Federalism
Essay - 4 pages - European union
In 1948, federalists formulated a project of United States of Europe at a Congress in La Haye. But they were defeated by unionists who wanted mere intergovernmental cooperation between European states. Nowadays, this continues to be a recurrent debate: is the European Union (EU) a federal state?...
Poland on the Speed and Scope of Transition - published: 26/01/2010
Essay - 12 pages - European union
Poland is a country in Central Europe, which has experienced a transition process. After World War II, the country was ruled by the workers' party, an emanation from USSR and communist party. During this period, Poland economy was centrally planned, which means that the Plan Office decided the...
The United Kingdom's relationship with the European Community
Essay - 3 pages - European union
The United Kingdom's relationship with the European Community has always raised controversies, both on the British political scene and on the international stage. Not only has Britain refused to be one of the founding members of the ECSC in the 1950s, it has also confronted many difficulties...
