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It is well known that EU citizenship is parasitic upon national citizenship. To become an EU citizen it is necessary to be a citizen of one of the Member States, and the states have exclusive competence to decide who their own citizens are. They therefore function as gatekeepers, and jealously...
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Romania and provides an in-depth analysis of the provisions of the reuse law. It tries to highlight practical challenges and …
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This paper mainly explores how law-based neo-functionalism can contribute to explain the legal development of the … (Slaughter) and Mattli in the 1990s expects spill-overs because it assumes that subnational actors try to overcome national law … the EAEC’s and/or its competences by means of actions against member states. By analysing ECJ case law on Euratom, the …
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In this article we analyze the effectiveness of EU conditionality. Viewing accession negotiations as a bargaining game, we find incentives to defect exist if the final date of accession is known, but conditions for cooperation prevail if the date is not known. Therefore we find that regardless...
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Commission and Council is pending. With the adoption of its Communication of 3 September 2004, the Commission has meanwhile …
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This paper analyses the so-called 'Draft Treaty of Amsterdam' of 19 June 1997, focusing on the changes concerning the institutions and the decision-making procedures. It is argued that the sum of envisaged changes will considerably alter the institutional balance between the three main actors,...
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The process of European integration and policy-making is sometimes rather puzzling. On the one hand, it is well documented that with respect to the implementation of European legislation member states tend to do less than they are supposed to do. On the other hand, it is striking that with...
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Community law through various viewpoints. The linguistic regime of the European Union is essentially of a legal nature. As a … linguistic rights do form part of the general principles of law. If linguistic rights are considered as general principles under … Community law, when do they have to apply? …
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an agency with the three powers of risk assessment, communication, and management can be understood as a struggle to … the harmonization of food law in Member States and the creation of a network between the EFA and Member State food … agencies. Satisfaction of these goals, in turn, depends upon transparency, open communication, and willingness to cooperate. An …
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This paper contributes to the ongoing debate between principal-agent theory and the concept of deliberative supranationalism regarding the functioning of the EU committee system by analysing regulatory policy-making in the BSE case. The BSE crisis can be seen as a critical instance for committee...
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