Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with distinction, Berlin School of Economics, course: European Social Policy, language: English, abstract: The Essay's subject is a comparison of different models of welfare regimes in different Member States of the European Union. The comparison is based on the welfare state model of Esping-Anderson. Subsequently the Essay analyses the influence of the different national welfare regime models on the definition and forming of a European Social Model and a European Social Policy,...

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with distinction, South Bank University London (Faculty for Art and Human Sciences), course: Postgraduate Course on European Policy, language: English, comment: The EU has formed self-standing legislative and executive competences on competition policy. The development and the procedures of this policy field are explained on the example of the prohibited merger of two low-cost airlines., abstract: This essay examines the theoretical background and the practical application of the...

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with Distinction, South Bank University London (Faculty of Art and Human Sciences), course: European Policy, language: English, comment: The essay analyses the ability and the limitations of economic "rationals" to stimulate political integration in the European Union., abstract: The essay analyses the question how EU-legislation on economic integration has shaped policy and decision-making processes as a "motor of political integration." Economic legislation, although on the...

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: A-Grade with Distinction, South Bank University London (Faculty of Art and Human Sciences), language: English, abstract: The thesis of this work is that the European Community is a self-standing federal state with inadequate political power, as the Member States keep essential core competences in the fields of Foreign, Defence and Monetary Policy to themselves or limit them to the intergovernmental "pillars" of the European Union. Although it is not yet adequately filled with...

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 2,0, Berlin School of Economics and Law (Postgraduate Masterstudiengang Europaisches Verwaltungsmanagement), language: English, abstract: The underlying thesis of this essay is that the EU Lisbon Strategy and its overall goal of stimulating and fostering socially and ecologically sustainable development, growth and employment started a process of policy convergence that led to the Lisbon Strategy occupying several other policies' agendas and objectives. This applies especially to the EU...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: A, South Bank University London (Faculty of Art and Human Sciences), Veranstaltung: European Policy - Seminar "Comparative Analysis," Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: After investigating the active employment measures of the United Kingdom and Germany as well as their reforms of the Employment Services since the creation of the European Employment Strategy in 1997, it can be said that Germany adapted huge parts of the British system. The British set the European Employment Strategy's agenda and...