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This survey includes all directives and regulations published in the Official Journal (OJ) 2006.
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This report analyzes current tendencies in decision-making and the evolving concept of “legislation” in the EU. The causes and consequences of the “legal basis game” are discussed.
Three broad conclusions emerge. First, all of those engaged in and with EU institutions should equip...
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In the negotiations on the Union’s annual expenditures decision is taken by qualified majority voting (QMV). In this report Professor Mika Widgrén investigates the relationship between the Council voting rules and EU budget transfers by using a power politics model. According to this view,...
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International agreements are one of the principal foreign policy tools of the European Union. The use and scope
of agreements have increased over the last decades resulting in a highly complex situation not least due to the different level of cooperation and integration between the EU...
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The Green Book from 2001 sparks the discussion on CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) in the EU, and becomes the first major reference text concerning CSR in the EU In 2006 a partnership for growth and employment is launched that has as an objective to make Europe a pole of excellence on CSR....
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Member States of the European Union are not allowed to have tax legislation which restricts the free movement on the internal market. In a number of cases, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has considered national tax law to be contrary to Treaty provisions and Swedish tax legislation has, in...
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Union Citizenship has radically changed the concept of movement and has loosen the link between free movement and economic activities. The principle of free movement has become a real and individual right which entitles European citizens to move freely within the European Union.
The right...
This compiled report contains contributions from Carl Fredrik Bergström, Jörgen Hettne, Josefin Almer and Maria Bergström. The report has been published within the framework of the project "A Constitution for Europe". The project was initiated by SIEPS upon conclusion of the intergovernmental...
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In 2004 the European Union (EU) gained ten new Member States. However in many of the old Member States there were increasing concerns about the implications of this particular enlargement. Not only did it represent a large increase in the Union's population; in eight of the ten countries the...
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Two years after the historic enlargement of the European Union, the attraction of membership is manifested by the long line of new applicant countries.
This report studies the role of the EU in the domestic policy processes in the former and current applicant countries of Central and...
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In the beginning of October 2005, a number of Turkish and Swedish academics, diplomats and journalist gathered in Swedish Consulate-General in Istanbul for a round-table discussion on "Turkey, Sweden and the EU. Expectations and Experiences".
After more than forty years of discussions...
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In the European Union's fifty-years, the relationship between the ECJ and the member state's national courts has had a crucial significance and constantly been a subject to discussion and criticism.Therefore it brought a lot of attention when the Commission opened an infringement case regarding...
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This report traces the origins of the EU decision to set up battlegroups, describes the underlying political and military concepts and analyses the challenges that the EU and its member states face in realising the Headline goal 2010, the plan adopted by the European defence ministers in...
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The increased influence of the European Union in world politics has sparked a lively debate on what influence it actually has, its degree of coherence and on the qualities that characterise its behaviour.
This report assesses how the EU is perceived by other states in international...
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Austria joined the EU in January 1995. It had been a long road to membership. After achieving full independence in 1955, Austrians debated membership in the European Coal and Steel Community. Mainly domestic economic and political reasons lead the Austrian government to opt for membership of...