SIEPS’ annual conference 2006 was held on the theme Why Europe? Possibilities and limits of European integration. The focus of the conference was the consequences of the failure to ratify the Constitutional Treaty from different scholarly perspectives.
The analysis deals with the constitutional developments in the Court of Justice, particularly in the development of the EC's competence in criminal matters.
This European Policy Analysis deals with the Commission's proposal for a regulation on mutual recognition of goods. The proposal provides that Member States must meet a number of administrative requirements and procedures when they do not accept goods from other Member States.
Healthcare is one of the core policy areas of the welfare state which for a long time has been regarded as unaffected by the process of European integration. However, healthcare has increasingly been subjected to the principles of the internal market during the last ten years.
Issue 4 of the European Policy Analysis deals with the mandate to the reform treaty agreed at the European Council meeting on 23 June 2007. The new treaty represents a new attempt to give the EU new tools to address future challenges.
The EU budget should be reviewed 2008 / 09. The author proposes a "Zero Base" approach in which no expenses or income is considered sacred, but are tested as if they were suggested for the first time.
Flexicurity has become a popular concept and is associated with a modern labour market policy.
When the European Convention began its work, the open method of coordination (OMC) was not one of the central issues. However, open coordination cropped up in different working groups of the Convention, slowly but steadily.
In connection with the conclusions reached at the meeting of the European Council in Nice in 2000, it was stated that a clearer distribution of decision-making powers between the EU and its member states should be discussed. A catalogue of competences defines who, or which level, has the authority to make decisions on specific matters.
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.