Title:Turkey's Party System and the Paucity of Minority Policy Reform
Author(s):LIARAS, EvangelosDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of small and incremental reform in Turkish
minority policies over the last two decades, contrasting with the dramatic economic, social, and
political changes that the ...
Title:The Principle of Proportionality in the Viking and Laval Cases: An appropriate standard of judicial review?
Author(s):HÖS, NikolettDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The article analyses the application of the proportionality principle in the Viking and Laval judgments. It argues that one of the main reasons why the outcome of these two eminent cases became so controversial was because ...
Title:European Integration Without EU Membership: Models, Experiences, Perspectives
Author(s):MAIANI, Francesco; PETROV, Roman; MOULIAROVA, EkaterinaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:At the beginning of the 1990s, the concept of “European integration” could still be said to be fairly unambiguous. Nowadays, it has become plural and complex almost to the point of unintelligibility. This is due, of course, ...
Title:Lionello Levi Sandri: his service to Europe
Author(s):BECHERUCCI, AndreaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article outlines the career of Lionello Levi Sandri, a lecturer in industrial law, as vice-president of the European Commission in charge of Social affairs between 1961 and 1970. As a member of the Hallstein Commission ...
Title:A Door into the Dark; Doing Justice to History in the Courts of the European Union
Author(s):LYONS, CaroleDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has been issuing judgments since 1954. It is beyond doubt that this body has, in these judgments, influenced the nature of European integration, indeed the nature of Europe itself, ...
Title:'Integration-through-Law.' Contribution to a Socio-history of EU Political Commonsense
Author(s):VAUCHEZ, AntoineDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This article tracks the genesis of one of the EU's most established meta-narratives, that of Europeanization-through-case-law. Instead of studying this theory of European integration as an explanatory frame, I consider it ...
Title:Legal Europeanization as Legal Transformation: Some Insights from Swiss “Outer Europe”
Author(s):MAIANI, FrancescoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The “Europeanization” of non-EU countries’ laws is predominantly seen as an “export”
of the EU acquis, especially in the case of so-called “quasi-member” states such as
Switzerland. Based on an examination of the Swiss ...
Title:Party Government in the EU: On the Road to Presidentialization?
Author(s):POGUNTKE, ThomasDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:This paper investigates how the growing importance of the European Union has changed the internal dynamics of national political parties. It can be shown that European integration strengthens national party elites, and ...
Title:Narrowing the gap? Law and new approaches to governance in the European Union
Author(s):WALKER, Neil; DE BURCA, Grainne; TRUBEK, David M.; SCOTT, Joanne; STURM, Susan; SMISMANS, Stijn; HERVEY, Tamara K.; TRUBEK, Louise; ARMSTRONG, Kenneth; KILPATRICK, Claire; MAHER, Imelda; SCHELKLE, WaltraudDate:2007Type of Publication:Article
Title:New Modes of Governance in the EU: Common Objectives versus National Preferences
Author(s):CITI, Manuele; RHODES, MartinDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUROGOV (European Governance Papers)Abstract:The emergence in the European Union of new modes of governance (NMG) such as the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) has produced an enormous literature that falls into four broad categories: a theoretical approach seeks to ...
Title:Talking Europe in the Italian Public Sphere
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; CAIANI, ManuelaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Italy has been considered an Euro-enthusiastic country. On the basis of claims analysis as well as semi-structured interviews with key political actors, this article presents a more nuanced image. Permissive consensus has ...
Title:The European Neighbourhood Policy: A Framework for Modernisation?
Author(s):CREMONA, Marise; MELONI, GabriellaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This Working Paper offers a selection of the papers which were presented during the Workshop on “The European Neighbourhood Policy – A Framework for Modernisation?”, which was held on 1-2 December 2006 at the European ...
Title:The Europeanization of Political Parties: Influencing the Regulations on Political Finance
Author(s):WALECKI, MarcinDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Europe does matter for political parties because of the impact of its rules, directives and norms into the domestic sphere. Drawing on new evidence, this paper sheds light on largely hidden aspects of the Europeanization ...