The European financial crisis and the future of the euro
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Europe has suffered from the recent subprime financial crisis, which has spread through the stock markets in all developed market economies. This crisis will bring these countries to an economic downturn, which will perhaps, allow them to take stock, and hopefully help them avoid repeating the...
Britain and the euro: not for yesterday, not for today, not for ever...? - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 14 pages - Finance
The EMS's Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) has long been a source of political controversy, playing for instance a relevant part in the final drama of Margaret Thatcher's resignation as a serving Prime Minister. Britain entered the ERM in 1990 to exit from it in 1992 and afterward, the new...
The European Union and the democratic deficit
Essay - 13 pages - European union
The Convention of the the European Council of Laeken in 2001, was put in charge of drafting a new treaty for Europe. The main objective of this draft Treaty was to clearly define: “how to bring citizens closer to the European aim, and to European Institutions, by organizing...
Britain and the euro: not for yesterday, not for today, not for ever...?
Essay - 13 pages - Political science
The EMS's Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) has long been a source of political controversy, playing for instance a relevant part in the final drama of Margaret Thatcher's resignation as a serving Prime Minister. Britain entered the ERM in 1990 to exit from it in 1992 and afterward, the new...
The European employment strategy - publié le 11/05/2009
Thesis - 21 pages - European union
The European Union is the most accomplished multinational organization in the world. Since it's beginning in 1950, with the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Union has been integrating more and more, becoming a unique. The European Union was at first, based on economic performances....
John Major and the Single Currency
Internship report - 5 pages - European union
At a time of numerous issues about an Economic and Monetary Union between the European Countries, Britain, which was a powerful state in Europe, was led to consider the membership. Eventually, Britain joined the European Economic Community and the Economic and Monetary System but the European...
The monetary policy setting in the Eurozone
Case study - 6 pages - Foreign markets
The Maastricht Treaty was signed the 7th of February 1992 by the members of the so-called “European Community”, which became by then the “European Union”. It ended a long road to achieve a monetary union at the European level, and a single currency, the euro....
The European employment strategy
Essay - 22 pages - Political science
The European Union is the most accomplished multinational organization in the world. Since it's beginning in 1950, with the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Union has been integrating more and more, becoming a unique. The European Union was at first, based on economic performances....
Foster v. British Gas plc: A European mirror of the French Public Service?
Law case - 4 pages - European law
Most of the developed states are aware of what public service is through facts. But only a few of them have come up with a legal definition of what it really is. In French Administrative law, the notion of public service has never been and will never be easily displayed. Major academics are still...
The Democratic Deficit in the EU
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
For years, the European construction appeared to be legitimate through a 'permissive consensus' since no significant opposition to the integration process was to be noticed. Nevertheless, a major debate underlined a 'democratic deficit' in the 1980s, denouncing that the European...
The introduction of the Euro has had success in promoting trade and price stability but it has had only limited success in promoting structural reform across the Euro-zone
Essay - 5 pages - European union
The Euro is the accomplishment of the Economic and Monetary Union in Europe (EMU). In 1989, Jacques DELORS was the president of the European Commission. With the help of his vice-president, Frans ANDRIESSEN and of the European Economic Community central banks governors, he came out with a report...
Should Turkey join tne european union ? - publié le 29/09/2010
Thesis - 21 pages - International relations
In the 1960s, a community of nations like France, Germany, Italy, and the Benelux covered almost all economic sectors, introduced the future common market framework, and established common policies for agriculture, transports, international relations, and regional cohesion. The integrating...
European citizenship and the protection of rights for European residents
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The Treaty on European Union, also called the Maastricht Treaty, created the European Union on 7 February 1992 and introduced the concept of a single European citizenship for its member states. Since the Treaty of the European Union, European citizenship has developed...
Is the European Union still relevant nowadays?
Essay - 2 pages - European union
In his declaration of May 1950, in the aftermath of World War II, Robert Schumann emphasized the goal of peace that the European Union (EU) has to play in European politics. Throughout its history, the EU evolved and gained more and more power over several aspects of our lives. The EU that we are...
Should Turkey join tne european union ?
Essay - 21 pages - International relations
In the 1960s, a community of nations like France, Germany, Italy, and the Benelux covered almost all economic sectors, introduced the future common market framework, and established common policies for agriculture, transports, international relations, and regional cohesion. The integrating...
The Democratic Deficit in the EU - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 7 pages - European union
For years, the European construction appeared to be legitimate through a 'permissive consensus' since no significant opposition to the integration process was to be noticed. Nevertheless, a major debate underlined a 'democratic deficit' in the 1980s, denouncing that the European...
What is the future for Euro?
Essay - 5 pages - European union
In 2009, the euro was the official currency of 330 million users, located in 16 countries in Europe, and accounted for about 16% of global GDP. The single currency of the Euro zone is now the second most important currency in the world, and enjoys a broad consensus about its effectiveness. The...
The role of European Parliament: Its positive contributions and weaknesses
Thesis - 3 pages - European union
The European parliament is the parliamentary body of the Union; it can be defined as the expression of the democratic will of all the 450 million citizens of the union in 25 states since 2004. Currently there are 732 members, called the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). The allocation of...
The Cecchini report - 20 years later
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
With the Maastricht Treaty, in 1992, the European Community will now be a single market composed of twelve countries, with no more barriers between them. This change was of course studied and analyzed before coming into force. The European Commission, in 1986, mandated Mr Cecchini...
The Committee of the Regions - publié le 13/01/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - European union
The construction of the European Union is, and has always been done by states. Since the Maastricht treaty however, sub national authorities have an official advisory body from which they can influence the making of the European policy: the Committee of the regions. This committee...
The Cecchini report - 20 years later - publié le 05/03/2008
Essay - 6 pages - European union
With the Maastricht Treaty, in 1992, the European Community will now be a single market composed of twelve countries, with no more barriers between them. This change was of course studied and analyzed before coming into force. The European Commission, in 1986, mandated Mr Cecchini...
What does the European Union's so-called 'democratic deficit' stem from, and how could it be tackled? - publié le 13/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - European union
One of the most important discussions in the modern-day European Union concerns the democratic deficit. The Maastricht treaty, which was signed on February 1992 by different European states, claims that the goal the EU is to create ‘an ever closer union among the peoples of...
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...
Is the integration of Turkey a threat to European Union (especially to Germany)?
Case study - 7 pages - European union
In the past couple of years, different voices became louder calling for an integration of Turkey as a steady member into the European Union (EU). Many discussions and conferences have been held concerning this topic and the question of integration spreads across the whole EU. Some say that Turkey...
The Euro: Costs & Benefits for France - published: 13/05/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
On the 1st of January 1999, the euro went into circulation as a common currency for eleven of the fifteen European Union countries, with Greece joining in 2001. France joined in 1999. The ratification of the Maastricht treaty in November of 1993 provoked the creation of the European...
National Parliaments and the European Union
Essay - 5 pages - European union
In November 2009, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek said that the Lisbon Treaty will improve the European Union's democratic functioning, for national parliaments and citizens alike, noting that it will increase contacts between the European Parliament and the national...
The Committee of the Regions
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The construction of the European Union is, and has always been done by states. Since the Maastricht treaty however, sub national authorities have an official advisory body from which they can influence the making of the European policy: the Committee of the regions. This committee...
The Euro: Costs & Benefits for France
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
On the 1st of January 1999, the euro went into circulation as a common currency for eleven of the fifteen European Union countries, with Greece joining in 2001. France joined in 1999. The ratification of the Maastricht treaty in November of 1993 provoked the creation of the European...
What does the European Union's so-called 'democratic deficit' stem from, and how could it be tackled?
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
One of the most important discussions in the modern-day European Union concerns the democratic deficit. The Maastricht treaty, which was signed on February 1992 by different European states, claims that the goal the EU is to create ‘an ever closer union among the peoples of...
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...
