Why Russia wants absorbs Ukraine and what is the influence of the European Union in terms of democracy?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
First, look at the world today? What's going on? Islamism is not only the international news. The events happening in Venezuela, North Korea, in the Sea of China, Xiang China, Syria, Libya, Egypt today are relayed cyclically or superseded by events in Ukraine, as in Ossetia 2012. As if nature...
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,...
The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) - European Union as a hard power?
Essay - 4 pages - European union
With the treaty of Maastricht's coming into force in 1993, the European Community became the European Union and the Common Foreign and Security Policy became one of the three pillars of this new Union. This step of the European construction was very...
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...
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...
A limited effective cohesion policy in an enlarged European Union
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Cohesion is an important facet of integration that is necessary in the European Union, it is related to the solidarity between the citizens among different Member States and the justice inside the European Union. A substantial budget is allocated for the Cohesion...
The external dimension of European Union immigration and asylum policies - redefining security in the European region
Essay - 7 pages - European union
In February 2003, Tony Blair proposed at the Thessaloniki Summit to create 'transit processing centres' outside the European Union (EU) frontiers in which asylum seekers would be withheld during the time their procedure was completed. Though the proposition wasn't well...
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...
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 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...
European Union representation in international forums
Essay - 5 pages - European union
American diplomat and political scientist, Henry Kissinger, once asked, "Who do I call when I want to speak to Europe?" In other words, he was wondering what exactly Europe has in place for its representation on the international stage. This is a valid query in light of the fact that there are...
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...
Limits to transnationalism in social movements: the case of the farmers' protests in the European Union
Essay - 13 pages - Political science
Farmers are among the most vigorous protestors against the European Union. However, contrary to some other groups, the farmers fail to cooperate. Transnational movements are quite rare, and quasi inexistent. It is for this reason that it is interesting to focus on this group in...
The Enlargement issue in the European Union
Essay - 8 pages - European union
The European Union (EU) has been confronted to the enlargement issue since its very creation. It constitutes now one of the main questions to be discussed at the Inter Governmental Conference (IGC). This negociation, started in March 1996, enabled the European Union to...
Does interest representation enhance or undermine democracy in the European Union? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - European union
The democratic legitimacy of the European Union has long been questioned and debated upon. In this essay we will consider the role of interest representation and discuss whether or not it aids or demoralizes the ideals of democracy. In order to fully investigate this question we...
The economic, territorial, and cultural impact of the European Union on the Danish identity - published: 09/01/2009
Case study - 5 pages - European union
Created by the treaty of Rome in 1957, the European Union now has 25 member states. Over the years and decades, it has developed a wide range of policies with an emphasis on economic measures. The member states have had to adapt themselves to this new system of governance and to the...
The future of financial centres in the European Union - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
The working of European Union was expected to be similar to the United States of America. Theorists believed that Europe will have a financial hub similiar to the Wall Street in the United Sates and questioned the future of the European Union. Establishing inter-market...
Critically assess the extent to which the Court of Justice of the European Union, through its interpretation of EU law, has struck an appropriate balance between the need to respect single market objectives
Case study - 5 pages - European union
European integration was always conveyed by economic motives. The European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community, and the European Union (EU) were founded by economic interests. Since the European Union is a sui generis...
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...
From the Great Powers to the European Union: assess and discuss the role and impact of the European influence in the Balkans
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
On the 21st of July 1774, the town of Kuchuk Kainarji in Bulgaria was the scene to the signing of the treaty that would end the Russo-Turkish War. From then on, the history of the Balkan peninsula would coincide with the receding of the Ottoman empire and the expansion of European...
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...
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...
The European Union: The positive and negative aspects
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The European Union was originally created by two enemies, who decided to reconcile and build a trading cooperation. That is the reason why they first created a cooperation of the steal and coal industries in 1950, right after WWII. They understood that the best way to be at peace...
Are Muslim and Western European values generally incompatible? Discuss with reference to the Turkish accession to the European Union
Case study - 4 pages - European union
Since the middle of the 20th century and the beginning of globalization, a phenomenon of mass migration has appeared. It thus led to an unprecedented cultural mix. Therefore, the Western states had to find a way to cope with this new challenge. Each country developed its own model: the French...
Is there a fragmentation of Economic and Social Rights between the Council of Europe and the European Union? Why does it matter?
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
After World War Two, there was all over the world and especially in Europe, new hopes for international and regional law. The Declaration of Philadelphia in 1944 which is still the foundation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), as well as the Council of Europe (CoE) in 1948, the...
Critically assess the extent to which the Court of Justice of the European Union, through its interpretation of EU law, has struck an appropriate balance between the need to respect single market objectives and also accommodate national interests of indiv
Case study - 5 pages - European union
European integration was always conveyed by economic motives. The European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community, and the European Union (EU) were founded by economic interests. Since the European Union is a sui generis...
Are Muslim and Western European values generally incompatible? Discuss with reference to the Turkish accession to the European Union - publié le 01/04/2013
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
The famous French poet Paul Valéry defined Europe as the geographic place in which one the Christianity has a huge influence on the spirit of society, the Roman Empire on legal systems, and where the philosophy is still inspired by Greeks thinkers. In this definition, the Europe tends to be seen...
The European Union: widening or deepening?
Case study - 4 pages - European union
“Enlargement and deepening are two wheels of a same carriage, to the pursuit of European integration”. (FNSP, 2006) Michel Emerson, researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies, describes these two exclusive events, enlargement and deepening must instead be...
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...
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...
