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...
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...
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...
Eastern European Markets: Slovenia
Essay - 17 pages - European union
The Republic of Slovenia lies at the heart of Europe, where the Alps face the Pannonian plains and the Mediterranean meets the mysterious Karst Slovenia is a South Eastern mountainous country which has borders with Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. It entered the World Trade Organization on...
The regulations applying to Chinese importations in the European Union
Essay - 6 pages - European union
In the late 1970s the group, popularly known as the Liem Investors, bought a stake in Overseas Union Finance to increase its Hong Kong presence. In a move seen as unusual among closely controlled Asian family businesses, around 1981, Salim directed his son Anthony to bring in outside talent to...
Is there a common European culture in diplomacy?
Essay - 5 pages - European union
At the moment, the question of culture is fundamental in the construction of Europe. The European Union is in fact searching for its identity which would be the basis to develop the political integration. Diplomacy has always played an important role in Europe: to represent and inform countries...
Relations between Norway and the European Union
Essay - 11 pages - European union
During a speech in Birmingham in 1904, British politician Joseph Chamberlain said: "The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come". Although pronounced a century ago, these words could still apply to the European integration today, and reflect Europe's move since...
Does the European construction and integration process belong to intellectual elite?
Essay - 7 pages - European union
"Building Union among people not cooperation between states". This quote of Jean Monnet underlines a specific side of the European integration history. Europe is not merely cooperation between states around an economical project, or motivated by the self-interest of states. Europe is, also, an...
The significance of the Schuman declaration of May 1950 for the idea of a federal Europe in the period 1950-1954
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Americans wanted a prosperous Germany, the French a weakened Germany. The French humiliated the Germans because of fear. Monnet proposed Europe. Through the Schuman Declaration, Monnet and Schuman believed that it would solve the post WWII German problem. Indeed for both political actors, the...
What future for Europe?
Essay - 5 pages - European union
Europe ceased to be a concept years ago. It is now a concrete political, economical and social association of 27 states which aim to move on and improve together. Europe currently has a future and will draw it by its own means and will. Yet, Europe is taking her first steps alone. Since the...
Water policy in European Union
Essay - 16 pages - European union
Until the XXIst century, environment has always been set aside. It is true that before the industrial age, humans had no real impact on it. Thus, the question has appeared later when the governments of developed countries started to see the future consequences of the damage caused by our...
The European Union and the global economy
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The principle of creating a political and economic union in Europe is not new. In fact, long before the twentieth century, Victor Hugo advocated that European states needed to build one united Europe unite in order to remove the national rivalries and to control the division of interest between...
The Lisbon Strategy and the economic integration
Essay - 4 pages - European union
On the 23rd and the 24th of March 2000, the European Council settled major goals for the next decade hoping that the European Union will ‘become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater...
Financial Integration and Cross-Border Banking Mergers in the European Union
Essay - 13 pages - European union
On March 30, 2005, the Dutch bank ABN Amro launched a bid to acquire the small Padua-based Italian bank Antonveneta. ABN Amro clearly had a number of reasons to make such an offer: it was trying to expand its activities in the European Union through mergers and acquisitions, while the Italian...
The European Union: "Fortress Europe"
Essay - 6 pages - European union
Article 14 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution”. Europe has always attracted migrants and asylum seekers because it benefits from a reputation of high standards of living and as...
Does regional integration challenge national identities?
Essay - 5 pages - European union
Regional integration is a process whereby states enter into a regional agreement in order to enhance regional cooperation through regional institutions and rules. The European Union is an example of regional integration that we are going to focus on. The project of the European Union, whereby...
What were the principal factors behind Britain's late accession to the European Union?
Essay - 4 pages - European union
To unify Western Europe after World War II, France, Western Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands founded the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951. The Treaty of Paris was the first step towards a European integration. It was aimed at avoiding any other war between France...
How can the east European economies adapt themselves to the demanding economic structure of a new European union?
Essay - 9 pages - European union
First and foremost I have to define the term east European economies, which is not clear enough to be understood. "East European Countries" is the general term that refers to the geopolitical region encompassing the eastern most of the European continent. Its borders are defined more by culture...
The immigration process and the Eastern Border of Europe
Essay - 4 pages - European union
In 2004, the admission of ten new States within the European Union has expanded the European borders to the East. Now, the Union has common borders with countries such as Belarus, Ukraine and the Federation of Russia, whose standards of living or rate of employment are less important than those...
How the Georgian and the financial crisis stress the main difficulties and changes that the European Union is facing nowadays?
Essay - 9 pages - European union
The financial crisis that we are facing in the present scenario is said to be the worst since World War two or even since the great depression. We can't compare our situation to the one in 1929 but we have to be realistic that the crisis is a global issue. We are now far away from the German...
The Linguistic Minority Groups in a Comparative Perspective: Spanish, French and Swedish
Essay - 14 pages - European union
In this essay I will try to study the status and the existence of the Swedish speaking Finns in a wider perspective. I personally think that comparisons and international studies are a way to improve the study of a phenomenon. That's why I will try in this essay to give a different way of...
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...
Essay on the Baltic transitions and European integration
Essay - 5 pages - European union
On the aftermaths of the second Word War, the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) were deprived of their independence by being absorbed by the CCPR. After being occupied by the German troops, the countries were freed by the Red Army and the loss of independence was not complicated to...
Europe's biggest minority: Roma people
Essay - 3 pages - European union
There are around 9 million Roma in Europe. The biggest community is in Romania (2,500,000 people, representing 13% of the population). 800,000 live in Bulgaria; 650,000 in Hungary and 520,000 in Slovakia, representing 8% of the population. The Roma people throughout Europe often share the same...
