The implementation of the Third Pillar of the European 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...
Should European Union develop its own deterrent?
Thesis - 7 pages - International relations
During the Cold War, deterrence was at the core of international foreign policy having a bilateral symmetry. With the end of the Cold War the realm of nuclear issues has undergone a substantial change and with emerging security challenges and an asymmetry of international actors. Even if...
The High Representative of Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - European union
This paper will examine the new role of The High Representative of Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (‘High Representative') that came into force in 2009 following the Lisbon Treaty signed in 2007. First, the historical background will be discussed followed by the...
Does the EU need a foreign minister?
Essay - 4 pages - European union
If one can recollect one of the main innovations of the aborted Constitutional treaty, it is undoubtedly, the appointment of an EU Foreign Minister. It is to be noted that if the accurate denomination and definition of a ?Union Minister for Foreign Affairs' was buried with the...
The European support to sustainable development and adaptation to climate change
Thesis - 11 pages - Ecology & environment
“The Union shall work for the sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the...
European Union and South Caucasus: Strategy
Thesis - 6 pages - European union
The new design of the European energy map has brought the South Caucasian region in the spotlight. As stressed by the Foreign Affairs Committee, in a draft resolution from the European Parliament they adopted in early April, there is now a dire need for the European Union to steer a regional...
Turkish membership to the European Union: what stakes? - publié le 08/05/2012
Case study - 4 pages - International relations
In the aftermath of the enlargement of the EU and the adoption of the Lisbon treaty, Turkey's adhesion to the European Union is a question which has often arisen since the formal accession negotiations began in 2005. Turkey first applied for associate membership of the European...
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 Union's agenda for constitutional reform, as first set out in the Laeken Declaration, has been and remains an urgent priority." Discuss the above statement
Essay - 3 pages - European union
The European Union is constantly evolving. We are currently in the middle of the ratification process by Member States of the Lisbon Treaty ? or Reform Treaty ? which seems to mark the end of a constitutional agenda that was started by the Laeken Declaration in the aftermath...
Turkish membership to the European Union: what stakes?
Case study - 4 pages - International relations
In the aftermath of the enlargement of the EU and the adoption of the Lisbon treaty, Turkey's adhesion to the European Union is a question which has often arisen since the formal accession negotiations began in 2005. Turkey first applied for associate membership of the European...
The President of the European Council
Essay - 3 pages - European union
After years of ongoing debate over the need or not of a European presidency, on November 19th, the European Union Heads of States and Governments elected unanimously the first stable and permanent President of the European Council under the Treaty of Lisbon, entering into force two...
What future for Europe? - publié le 29/09/2010
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...
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...
Has the power of the Commission declined since the 1990s?
Essay - 9 pages - European union
The Commission is composed of 27 commissioners, one per Member State, referred to as “the College of Commissioners”. The Commission is led by a President, proposed by the European council- according to the outcome of the European elections- and elected by the European Parliament (EP)....
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...
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...
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?...
Is the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights a necessary and desirable development?
Thesis - 7 pages - Constitutional law
The Treaty of Lisbon came into force in 2009 and alongside it, a reference to the Charter of Fundamental Rights (Charter) gave it legal standing. The Charter became one of the most defining documents the European Union has ever witnessed, or a mere piece of symbolic literature that...
The French return to NATO's military command structure: Anything beyond great expectations?
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
The official announcement of France's return to NATO's military command structure triggered a many-fold debate on both the futures of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Would France's leanings towards NATO enable the European...
European Union and Federalism - published: 29/09/2010
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?...
French's rejection of the European Constitution
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
What is the research question in this article? Several months after the French referendum, Gilles Ivaldi is trying to answer to the question “How can we characterize the disapproval of the French referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty held on 29 May 2005?” The main...
French's rejection of the European Constitution - publié le 04/12/2013
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
What is the research question in this article? Several months after the French referendum, Gilles Ivaldi is trying to answer to the question “How can we characterize the disapproval of the French referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty held on 29 May 2005?” The main...
Great Britain and Europe
Essay - 3 pages - European union
In 1950, the French Foreign Secretary Robert Schuman set out his idea of a Coal and Steel Community between France and Germany, which would be an organization open to some other European countries if they would accept the idea of a supra-national power. Great Britain refused to be part of it. The...
The different stakes of European enlargement (Pestel and Swot analysis)
Essay - 16 pages - European union
From the first step in its creation in 1957 by the Rome treaty, Europe went through successive enlargement phases. In the current scenario, Europe has become an important player in the international market, due to its critical size. However, it is hard to estimate its power in the...
To what extent French Regional authorities EU representations are relevant?
Case study - 7 pages - European union
Regional and local authorities are nowadays completely part of the European Union policy-making process. They are now almost 200 regional organisations in Brussels (Greenwood, 2011) and they emerged massively in the mid-1980s during the rise of the Single European Act (SEA) and the establishment...
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...
The European Court of Justice and the rule of Precedent
Case study - 5 pages - European law
The rule of precedent is the legal principle under which judges have to follow the judgments established previously by upper courts. The Latin translation of "stare decisis" gives an unequivocal definition of the concept as it means "to stand by that which is decided". Precedent underpins the...
The new method of ' Open Co-ordination ': A useful innovation for EU governance ?
Essay - 11 pages - European union
Asking the question whether the new open-method of co-ordination (OMC) is a useful innovation for EU governance, equals to asking whether today, new modes of EU governance are needed or not. If we take into account the definition of the governance from the Commission, and that we stick to the...
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....
EU towards a federal state - publié le 11/06/2013
Case study - 5 pages - European union
"Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity" (issued from Schuman Declaration on 9th May 1950). At the end of the Second World War, bruised, France, Germany, Benelux, and Italy,...
