A lot has been written about the European Commission as the main administrative institution of the European Community: about its work, competences, its organisational problems and the administrative reform initiated by President Prodi after the resignation en masse of the Commission of President...

This paper reports newly collected empirical data sets on explicitly contested voting at ministerial level in the Council of Ministers of the European Union. These data sets cover the period 1994-2004, with more detail for the years 1998-2004. They provide us with rather steady patterns of...

In recent years, media pluralism has become the key theme of media policy debates both at the EU and national levels. This article examines normative grounds of media pluralism and considers different approaches to the issue. It also maps out regulatory concepts and responses at the level of EU...

Integration has become a popular word to describe the march towards a fairer treatment of immigrants and their incorporation in host societies. However, by becoming a legal pre-requisite for long-term immigrants before the acquisition of any more favourable status (one to integrate them better),...

This paper addresses the counterhegemonic potential of rights constitutionalism in the age of globalization, and in particular its capacity to respond to the rise of significant forms of private power. It locates this issue in the context of the paradigmatic debate of modern law between liberal...

In the following contribution I propose an analytical approach in which dealing with differences in decision-making is the central factor in explaining the output of European governance. It is the hypothesis that differences can, under certain conditions, be a positive potential for effective...

This article aims to develop a coherent explanation of the impact of the EU on Turkey’s politics between 1987 (the year Turkey applied for EU membership) and 2004, providing a more profound analysis of Turkish political transformation within the framework of its relations with the EU. It...

Human and minorities map an area in which the EU's external relations have pushed for a (partial) rethinking of the EU's internal values, objectives and policies. While minority issues have been at the forefront of the enlargement rhetoric and are often singled out as a prime example of the EU's...

The paper examines the impact of the various forms of differentiated integration, such as multi-speed, variable geometry and à la carte, on the position of small Member States in the new Europe. The recent proposals to create a small, but non-exclusive, 'pioneering' core group of Member States...

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