Download or read book Enlargement of the EU and the Treaty of Nice written by Homa Motamen-Scobie and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nice Treaty will shape the future of the European Union. Understanding the treaty and its implications is key for all those dealing with the applicant countries as well as those countries themselves. Deciphering the volume of official material on the subject of EU entry can be arduous. This report provides a clear and concise guide, outlining the procedure for joining the EU. It offers: A comprehensive analysis of the countries in line for accession to the EU An unbiased assessment of the prospects for each of the candidate countries based on an indepth survey of the thirteen applicant countries An appraisal of the development of these markets A checklist of the key requirements for entry together with projections for their accession Insight into the views of existing member states - the ultimate decision-makers - on the prospects for applicant countries based on interviews with actual decision-makers including Prime Ministers, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and officials of the European Commission A clear and unique guideline on the procedure and timing of entry for each applicant
Download or read book EU Enlargement written by Christophe Hillion and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experts, this book looks at the conditions and modalities of accession and the impact of enlargement on EU institutions and policies.
Download or read book The Political Economy of EU Enlargement and the Treaty of Nice written by Friedrich Heinemann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The starting point is the assumption that accession can only be successfully completed if the interests of decisive actors in present EU countries are respected. Decisive actors in the West are the members of the European Parliament, individuals in national governments and in the Commission. Personal costs and benefits of these individuals are analysed with respect to enlargement. Furthermore, the basic strategic issues of the negotiations are depicted that arise from the different pre-entry and post-entry position of new members. The Intergovernmental Conference is reinterpreted as an opportunity of EU-15 actors to protect their personal interests in an enlarged Community. The relative attractiveness of the 13 official candidate countries is assessed on the basis of some indicators that emerge as important from the political-economic approach. The paper concludes by giving some cautious forecasts about likely outcomes of both the Treaty of Nice and the accession bargaining.
Download or read book The European Union in the Wake of Eastern Enlargement written by Amy Verdun and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will happen to the EU in the wake of enlargement? What are the institutional and policy-making changes in light of enlargement? This text deals with the theoretical, conceptual and historical processes that led to European Union enlargement.
Download or read book European Union written by Anca Pusca and published by IDEA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together articles discussing controversial questions raised by European Enlargement towards Eastern Europe, Cyprus and Turkey. The author focuses on each of the applicant countries and their views on questions surrounding enlargement, relying on up to date source documents and speeches relevant to these issues. The first section of the book presents points of view from each of the applicant countries with regard to specific problems of European Enlargement, grouped under sections dealing with issues of democratic representation and citizenship rights, social, political and economic impacts of the acquis communautaire requirements, as well as convergence of the current European Union policies--such as the Common Agricultural Policy--to meet to needs of the applicant countries. The second part of the book offers documents including relevant European Union treaties and speeches that represent the European Union stance on these issues. There is a glossary of key terminology.
Download or read book The Treaty of Nice and Beyond written by Mads Tønnesson Andenæs and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays on the enlargement and constitution of the European Union.
Download or read book The Treaty of Nice written by Finn Laursen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a detailed analysis of the making of the Treaty of Nice, the current treaty of the European Union, adopted in 2000. It analysis the interests and strategies of the various actors, including the 15 Member States, during the negotiations and tries to explain the main institutional changes: re-weighting of votes in the Council of Ministers, future changes in the composition of the European Commission, extended use of qualified majority voting and easier conditions for a smaller group of Member States going faster in the integration process ('enhanced cooperation').
Download or read book The Institutions of the Enlarged European Union written by Edward Best and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book in addition of being remarkable academic reading contributes, on the highest scholarly level, to the furthering of our understanding of performance of the EU institutions which is essential for practitioners and researchers in the midst of the institutional crisis. Dominik Vuleti , Croatian International Relations Review . . . an impressively detailed introduction to the institutions and committees that form the core frameworks of EU activities including the EU Parliament, the European Central Bank, and the effects of EU membership expansion. The Institutions of the Enlarged European Union is very strongly recommended as an addition to governmental and university library International Studies reference collections in general, and European Union Studies supplemental reading lists in particular. Midwest Book Review The International Studies Shelf This excellent book in the series of studies on EU reform and enlargement is not as dry as it first appears. . . The contributors outline the key changes as well as patterns of continuity in the institutional policies of the EU and their research which I feel will be highly beneficial to lawyers, economists and politicians. . . I found the book to be invaluable for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of EU politics and administrative science, as well as researchers, practitioners and journalists working in the fields of European studies more widely. Phillip Taylor, The Barrister This timely, comprehensive and authoritative study provides much food for thought for European policy makers, particularly in the current situation of uncertainty about the Lisbon Treaty. The authors basically upbeat findings that, despite the arrival of twelve new member states in one big bang and one after shock, it has been pretty much business as usual for the EU s institutions will comfort both those who worried about the EU s capacity to act in the absence of institutional reform and those who argued that such reform was unnecessary. But the editors identify a number of emerging dynamics that will be of concern to all who care about the Union s democratic future: increasing formalisation of meetings and procedures on the one hand, coupled with an increase in informal, pre-cooked deals on the other; increasing primacy of the administrative over the political; and a growing trend towards presidentialisation within the institutions, with continued efficiency requiring more emphasis on the primus than on the pares . The editors conclude that, while the European Union s institutional system continues to function and might even become more efficient, the price to be paid could further distance the Union from the citizens it seeks to serve. Martin Westlake, Secretary General, European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, Belgium This volume reports a thorough appraisal of how the EU institutions have fared since the 2004 enlargement. In essence the answer is more of the same, with no evidence of gridlock. Business has been conducted in similar ways and at similar levels of output, helped by procedural adaptation. The new member states have slotted into the existing routines of the Union. Helen Wallace, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK How have the main institutions and decision-making processes of the EU responded to the arrival of new member states? This book assesses the actual state of the EU institutions in the years after the 2004 enlargement, examining each of the main institutional actors as well as trends in legislative output, implementing measures and non-legislative approaches. The contributors outline the key changes as well as patterns of continuity in the institutional politics of the EU. The analysis finds that breakdown has been avoided by a combination of assimilation of the new member states and adaptation of the system, without any fundamental transformation of the institutions. Nonetheless, they conclude that it
Download or read book Enlargement of the Eu and the Treaty of Nice Preparing for the Euro Pack written by H. M. Scobie and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2002-04-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Uniting of Europe written by Stanley Henig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Uniting of Europe provides an accessible introduction to the history of European integration and places European unification within a wider political and economic context The book shows how institutional developments have been conditioned by wider international considerations. The Uniting of Europe considers: * the impact of the Cold War and the superpowers on Europe * Britain's decision to join the Community * the consequences of German reunification * the problem of nationalism in Eastern Europe * key personalities, parties, regimes and political systems. This Second edition brings the history of the European Union up to date to include the Amsterdam and Nice treaties, as well as other contemporary issues such as the impact of events in Yugoslavia, the changing relationship with the US and British membership of the single currency.
Download or read book Nice Try written by Richard E. Baldwin and published by Centre for Economic Policy Research. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EU member nations must decide whether to ratify the Nice Treaty. This report, written to inform these decisions, is highly critical of the Treaty but argues that it should be passed since it is 'repairable' and rejecting it would delay Eastern enlargement. It proposes two 'emergency repairs' to the Treaty. The authors marshal the best available empirical evidence and analytic techniques to show that the Treaty fails to meet its goal of adjusting EU decision-making to the realities of a Union with 27& members. Far from maintaining the EU's ability to act after enlargement, the authors argue that the Nice reforms reduce EU27 decision-making efficiency below what it would have been with no reform. Unless the Treaty is mended, future integration will be guided by intergovernmental initiatives in which large members play a large role due to their economic dominance. The Treaty also fails to resolve the ECB's 'numbers problem' - enlargement without reform would also damage the ECB's decision-making capacity. The Treaty does include an 'enabling clause' to help solve this problem: the report analyses the possible solutions and proposes specific reforms.
Download or read book The Treaty of Nice Explained written by Martyn Bond and published by I.B.Tauris. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the European Union grows larger and more complex, so members revise treaties to adjust to new circumstances. This volume explores and explains The Treaty of Nice, designed to help prepare the Union as it considers adding up to 12 new states, many formerly behind the Iron Curtain.
Download or read book The Treaty of Nice and Beyond written by David Galloway and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whole and Free written by John Leech and published by Federal Trust. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout, there are two recurring themes. The first is that the EU's prolonged integration process has burdened it with an accreditation of legal texts and a proliferation of instruments whose combined weight threatens its own efficient governance. The second is that, whilst the direct effects of enlargement on transatlantic relations in terms of trade, investment and business activity are likely to be small, of much greater import will be the political outcomes. Of these, none will have more far-reaching consequences than the effect on the development of the Union itself. It is this that will ultimately determine the weight, reliability and compatibility of the power balance across the Atlantic.
Download or read book European Governance After Nice written by Hiroyi Akiba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the impact of institutional reform implemented by the Nice Treaty on European Governance? What should be done to enhance democratic legitimacy in the EU? This book provides an up-to-date guide to understanding the European Union as an institution. Globalisation has led to enormous changes in the international environment which, in turn, have demanded institutional reform of the European Union in the form of the Nice Treaty. European Governance After Nice scrutinises how, and to what extent, the treaty will contribute to the solution of existing problems, examining both its positive effects and its limitations and examines the reforms within the EU through political science, law and economics, in order to express the full extent of the different effects of the Nice Treaty on non-member as well as member countries. The contributors suggest that the threat of varying exchange rates in the future, when the Treaty has an expansionary effect on economic scale, will lead to a deepening interdependence between the excluded countries.
Download or read book Changes in the European Institutions in Regard to the Eastern Enlargement The Distribution of Power Between Member States of Different Population Sizes written by Daniela Keller and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: B+, San Diego State University (Political Science), course: Graduate Research Seminar on the European Union, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: A paper presented at the European Union Center of California How did the power structures of the institutions adopt to the situation of involving ten new member states, which are mostly consisting of smaller populations. The development of power structures in the European institutions in regard to the European enlargement are investigated in this paper. A comparison of the different European institutions and their importance comes to the conclusion that, overall, the bigger states enlarged their power due to the European enlargement.
Download or read book Treaty of Nice written by Emel Baran and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: