This survey includes all directives and regulations published in the Official Journal (OJ) 2004.
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.
It asks: whether Turkish political reforms will be successfully completed and what are the main challenges; what will be the most important issues...
In this report the author gives an analysis of the legal alternatives that remain if the ratification process of the Constitutional Treaty would fail.
The report was written and published before the referendums in France and the Netherlands on the Constitutional Treaty.
The report...
In this collected volume five authors have been asked to give their views on the Constitutional Treaty and the aspects of it that they find most interesting. The result is a collection of studies on balance of powers and democracy in the EU.
The report was presented at the seminar...
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...
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...
The paper is primarily an empirical study in which the net migration from the new EU Member States to Sweden is forecasted. The results indicate that free movement for workers has a positive and statistically significant effect on migration flows. The effect is, however, comparatively small in...
It is often claimed that food aid is a covert form of subsidising the export of agricultural products from the sending country, i.e., as a means of supporting prices of domestic production, or, alternatively, to develop commercial export of domestic agricultural products. Lately this question...
International trade has undergone liberalisation in the post-war period. This liberalisation has been undertaken globally, through the GATT and the WTO, but also at the regional level. In the last ten years the number of regional trade agreements has increased dramatically. It would appear that...
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