This report concerns the role of the national courts in the application and enforcement of Community law. According to the author the European Union is presently under a "constitutional momentum".
This paper looks at the key political dynamics involved in the process of Turkish accession to the EU, on both the Turkish and the EU sides.
This paper discusses the domestic backgrounds and challenges of the 2004 Netherlands European Union Council Presidency. The paper reviews the national organisation and management of the Presidency with the use of empirical results from a written survey covering some 550 government officials.
This report gives an overview of the Commission’s agenda for European governance reform as set out in the White Paper of Governance adopted by the Commission in 2001, focusing on how the Commission envisages its own role in the EU decision-making process. Furthermore, it describes how a number of follow-up documents adopted by the Commission have essentially given effect to the initial recommendations and proposals set out in the White Paper.
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.