Title:European Union competencies in respect of media pluralism and media freedom
Author(s):CMPFDate:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:This report presents the phenomena of media freedom and pluralism and the major academic and policy debates about their social, political, economic role and implications. It highlights the importance of media freedom and ...
Title:European Union Law as International Law
Author(s):MOORHEAD, TimothyDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:International law principles enable a rationalisation of the values to which the Union order aspires as a collective political and legal commitment amongst the Member States. The doctrine of Union law supremacy, which ...
Title:European Union Law: A Unified Academic Discipline?
Author(s):DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper, presented to an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘The European Legal Field’, the author examines the way in which one sub-field, namely that of academic writing on European law, is structured. Some factors point ...
Title:European Union Law: How Autonomous is its Legal Order?
Author(s):DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Against the backdrop of the ECJ’s Kadi judgment, it has been argued again, that Community law’s autonomy from international law went so far that it was no longer part of international law. Based on the ECJ’s own jurisdiction ...
Title:The European Union Response to Emergencies: A Sociological Neo-Institutionalist Approach
Author(s):WENDLING, CécileDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Disasters can strike at any time and can be of various types: natural like the Tsunami of 2004 that left over 300,000 people dead or man-made like the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah fighters. In face of the recurrence ...
Title:European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy. When and Why do they Work?
Author(s):PORTELA, ClaraDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the general public. This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence ...
Title:The European Union’s Mediterranean Policies after the Arab Revolts: From Crisis to a New Order?
Author(s):CASSARINO, Jean-Pierre; TOCCI, NathalieDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:By all accounts, the events in the southern Mediterranean call for a serious rethink in Western policies towards the region. The aim of this article is to explore what such a rethink might entail for the European Union and ...
Title:The European Union’s Peace Mission in the United Nations Collective Security System
Author(s):PALADINI, LucaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The recent and interesting practice of European Security and Defence Policy peace missions testifies to a great vitality of EU in the field of peace maintenance and international security. This is an asset, considering ...