The Regionalization of World's Economy (An analysis)
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
The establishment of areas of integration in world trade: The establishment of large regional areas reveals two trends. Within NAFTA, regionalization has led to an intensification of trade within the zone, while in the EU, trade stagnated. Regionalization does not imply a strong increase in...
The EU has no need for a common immigration policy - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - European union
In 1957, the Treaty of Rome mentioned the elimination of border controls within its territory as a goal of the EEC (European Economic Union). This implied that the member states would sooner or later have to address the question of deciding on common rules concerning access to their soil...
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...
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...
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...
The EU has no need for a common immigration policy
Essay - 4 pages - European union
In 1957, the Treaty of Rome mentioned the elimination of border controls within its territory as a goal of the EEC (European Economic Union). This implied that the member states would sooner or later have to address the question of deciding on common rules concerning access to their soil...
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...
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)....
To what extend is the EU's role as a civilian power compatible with its enhanced military commitments?
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
"As a union of 25 States with over 450 million people producing a quarter of the world's Gross National Product (GNP), the European Union is inevitably a global player. It should be ready to share in the responsibility for global security and for building a better world". This quotation of...
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,...
How successful are the attempts to create a citizenship of the European Union? - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - European union
Although the formal concept of European citizenship appeared for the first time in the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992, the idea thereof goes back to the early years of the European construction. The Treaty founding the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 instituted a...
How successful are the attempts to create a citizenship of the European Union?
Essay - 5 pages - European union
Although the formal concept of European citizenship appeared for the first time in the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992, the idea thereof goes back to the early years of the European construction. The Treaty founding the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 instituted a...
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 integration,...
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,...
EU towards a federal state
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,...
The European Central Bank
Essay - 18 pages - International economy
After World War Two, the European countries decided to be closer in order to stop war and settle the peace in all of Europe. It was the beginning of what would become the European Union as we know it today. Some important dates to remember: • 1957: Treaty of Rome • 1982:...
A Constitution for Europe?
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In May 2005, every French home received a book titled Treaty for the European Union. Based on the notions of liberty and democracy, the European Union was already divided on its decision to adopt the European Constitution or not. Defending the ideas of freedom since their adhesion to the...
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...
The question of the adoption of the Euro by the United Kingdom
Essay - 3 pages - European union
The Euro was introduced as a single currency on January 1st, 1999 in the European Union and replaced national currencies. Put in circulation on January 1st, 2002 under its fiduciary shape, the Euro succeeded the European Currency Unit (ECU), established in 1979. The Euro is today common to...
The party of European socialists and the identity of European social democracy
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
The question wether there is currently something that can be called the crisis of social-democracy is arguable: after all, social-democractic and socialist parties are still the counterpart of Conservatives and Christian-democrats, sharing alternaltively government responsibilities at national...
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 important because it...
Representation and governance in international organizations - Rapkin, Strand and Trevathan (2016) - Can international organizations be representative and democratic?
Text commentary - 7 pages - Political science
Due to all the problems associated with globalization, economic or financial crisis, and climates, the importance of international organizations such as the United Nations, or the IMF, has never been greater. As its name suggests, an international organization is made up of a collection of States...
What are the challenges facing the EU in its attempts to establish democratic institutional structures ?
Thesis - 7 pages - European law
“It is time to recognise that the Union has moved from a diplomatic to a democratic process, with policies that reach deep into national societies and daily life” . This statement by the European Commission subsumes ten years of political and academic on-going debate on the...
Critically evaluate the impact upon EC jurisprudence and legislation of the judgement of the European Court of Justice in REWE Zentral AG Bundesmonopolverwaltung fur Branntwein "Cassis de Dijon"
Essay - 7 pages - European law
Article 28 (ex-30) of the EC Treaty is one of the major principles governing the achievement in establishing the common market. It lays out a strong principle that imposes quantitative restrictions on imports and that all measures having equivalent effect will be prohibited between member...
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 received at...
The European identity issue: what most determines the European "we feeling"?
Essay - 11 pages - European union
“You don't fall in love with a common market” (EU Commission President Jacques Delors in The European, 3 November 1994). Here emerges one of today's most challenging issues for the European Union: the prevalence of market integration has created a political vacuum and so-called...
Is the "democratic deficit" of the European Union a political or institutional problem?
Essay - 6 pages - European union
"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time; but there is the broad feeling in our country that the people should rule, continuously rule". When...
"Post-parliamentary strategies need, therefore, to be recast as complements, rather than substitute, for parliamentarism at Union level" (Lord and Beetham). Discuss
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The rejection of the Constitutional Treaty by the French and Dutch citizens in the referendum of spring 2005 has caused a revival of the EU's legitimacy issue. It was also evidence for the fact that both the continuous strengthening of the European Parliament's powers one the one hand and...
The European Union and national sovereignty
Essay - 3 pages - European union
The birth of the modern sovereign state is usually associated with the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, after which modern nation-states began to constitute in Europe. Today, some scholars argue that state sovereignty has been challenged by trends such as globalization and European integration...
European Union and national sovereignty
Worksheets - 3 pages - European union
The birth of the modern sovereign state is usually associated with the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, after which modern nation-states began to constitute in Europe. Today, some scholars argue that state sovereignty has been challenged by trends such as globalization and European integration....
