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In 2007 the European Union celebrated the 50th anniversary of the signature of the Treaty of Rome and a declaration was presented during a special ceremony in Berlin.
In April 2007, SIEPS and the Swedish Institute of...
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This survey includes all directives and regulations published in the Official Journal (OJ) 2007.
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The EU activities of Swedish subnational authorities have varied across space and time since Swedish membership in the Union. The constitutional asymmetries on the regional level in Sweden create a unique opportunity for testing the impact of different institutional settings on EU-activity...
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This working paper focuses on the relationship between law and politics in the European Union. The membership in the European Union has created new legal possibilities for actors striving for political change in the Member States.
It is possible to talk about a juridification of politics...
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The road to full membership of the European Union is long and demanding for an applicant country. The EU sets a number of convergence criteria that the applicant state needs to fulfil.
This report is devoted to Romania’s path to full EU membership. The mechanisms of steering, power and...
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Flexicurity has become a popular concept and is associated with a modern labour market policy.
The author discusses the dangers of using such a vague concept as flexicurity and identifies four potential problems.
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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.
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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.
The analysis was...
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Free movement of services is a fundamental principle of EC Law. Healthcare is among those services which are granted free movement. In Sweden, healthcare has been regarded as a duty for the national health provider to supply for patients. In EC Law, health care is considered to be a right for...
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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 authors discuss what the new treaty means and...
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The report addresses the issue of cross-border crime in the European Union and the development of a harmonised criminal law and criminal procedural law. In the arguments about how the emerging EU law can be shaped, the backdrop is the criminal activity that has to be combated: organised crime,...
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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. Is this a step...
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The old age dependency ratio in the EU is projected to increase and the fertility rates are low. The strain this will put on public finances through increased pension payments and increased health care costs is one of Europe’s main economic challenges. The possibility to alleviate the problem by...
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The analysis deals with the constitutional developments in the Court of Justice, particularly in the development of the EC's competence in criminal matters.
The analysis is part of the research project...
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The Swedish referendum on the euro in 2003 is an exceptional event for researchers of monetary unions and of European economic integration. Voters chose between maintaining the domestic currency, the krona, and replacing it with the euro, the common currency of the European Union. The referendum...
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. This volume is made up by the...
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The first issue of SIEPS European Policy Analysis deals with regulatory issues within telecommunications
The analysis is part of the research project The EU's Internal Market: Effects on...
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This report aims at providing systematic knowledge about a central, yet underresearched, political body within the European Union, namely the European Council. The closed nature of the meetings and summits of the heads of state and governments makes empirical research on the functioning of the...
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This report is part of a broader analysis of the constitutional implications of the development of criminal law in Community law. It provides a systematic overview over the development of criminal law within the European Union.
In a growing number of situations, Community law has...
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This Report gives a detailed insight into the organisational structures of the German Presidency. It starts with a general part describing German motivation for European integration, the developments since the German unification, public opinion on European integration and the positions of...