This new volume presents a wealth of fresh data documenting and analyzing the different positions taken by governments in the development of the European Constitution.
It examines how such decisions have substantial effects on the sovereignty of nation states and on the lives of citizens, independent of the ratification of a constitution. Few efforts have been made to document constitution building in a systematic and comparative manner, including the different steps and stages of this process. This book examines European Constitution-building by tracing the two-level policy...
This new volume presents a wealth of fresh data documenting and analyzing the different positions taken by governments in the development of the Eu...
This text focuses on how constitutional decisions taken in the EU are of societal and scientific relevance. It shows how these decisions have effects on the sovereignty of a number of European nation states, and on the lives of European citizens, independent of the ratification and coming into force of a constitution.
This text focuses on how constitutional decisions taken in the EU are of societal and scientific relevance. It shows how these decisions have effects ...
In ten years 80 per cent of the legislation related to economics, maybe also to taxes and social aff airs, will be of Community origin." This declaration has been largely quoted, paraphrased and deformed by different authors, creating a persistent myth according to which 80% of the legislative activity of the national legislatures would soon be reduced to the simple transposition of European norms." This book addresses the topic of the scope and impact of Europeanization on national legislation, as a part of the Europeanization debate which raises normative concerns linked to the...
In ten years 80 per cent of the legislation related to economics, maybe also to taxes and social aff airs, will be of Community origin." This decla...
Founded in 2007 to fund basic research, the European Research Council (ERC) has become the most revered instrument in European science policy and one of the world's most important focal points for the funding of scientific research. Its grants are much sought-after by researchers and scholars and it is widely considered to have had a major impact on research communities and institutions across Europe. How did this remarkable organization, the creation of which was widely regarded as a 'miracle', come into being, what has it achieved and how is it likely to adapt in the face of current and...
Founded in 2007 to fund basic research, the European Research Council (ERC) has become the most revered instrument in European science policy and one ...