The purpose of the report is to examine how the EU enlargement in 2004 affects industrial structures and industry location. Even though the focus is on Sweden, effects on the European level are also scrutinised.
Transatlantic relations have seen the most dramatic crisis ever, over the issue of how to deal with Iraq. The author argues that the various transatlantic quarrels of recent years are rooted in different developments during the past decade concerning the notion and effect of the concept of national sovereignty.
The aim of this report is to identify some of those features which, since they are shared by all or some of the existing agencies, are essential in order to explain their legal nature and to highlight some problems that should be addressed in the process leading up to the adoption of a new constitutional treaty. At present, the role of decentralized agencies is premised on the Court of Justice’s idea of an institutional balance of powers, requiring an EU-institution to assume full responsibility.
The report examines the economic effects of institutional choices and how the decision-making rules in the European Union affects policy with regard to expenditures and expenditure structures. The report covers a number of areas, including constitutional problems tackled by the Convent.
This study questions three key assumptions underlying EU Structural Policy by contending, that the regional disparities in EU15 are much smaller than they are normally reported to be; that Structural Policy interventions have a very limited impact on convergence; and that convergence has a very limited impact on cohesion.
This paper describes and analyses various processes of reform currently being discussed and taking place in and around the Council and the European Council, two central institutions of the European Union. Proposed and actual changes in their structure and functioning will affect not only these institutions, but also the EU as a whole.
In this report the authors discuss the proposal for a hierarchy of legal acts as that was the result from the work of the European Convention on the Future of Europe. One objective with the proposal was to reduce the number of legal instruments and give them names which are readily understandable to the public.
The relationship between Council and Parliament within the codecision procedure involves a plethora of informal and semi-formal meetings in which many of the real decisions about legislation are taken, with little scope for public oversight. In the light of the current debate on the future of European Union, the report will address the question what this informalization of the decision-making process means for the legitimacy of the legislative process.
The aim of the report is to describe the rise in member state cooperation on asylum politics and to analyse factors that have promoted or impeded this cooperation. Moreover, the report contains a general theoretical discussion on what might explain the interest shown by the states in cooperation on asylum politics.
The purpose of the report is to give an overview of economic literature on three questions: the risk of tax competition between European countries; the welfare effects of a possible tax competition; and the possibilities of correcting any such development through tax harmonisation. The author contends that there are two points of view for those who welcome globalisation and tax competition.