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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"EU policy"”.
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Eu policy in combating organised crime
… of Organised Crime were felt also by various European states, urging the European Union to take an interest in organised crime. This led to the setting out of another definition, which would in tum lead to the consolidation of policy. In 1998, Article 1 of a Joint Action of the Justice and …
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The public accountability of business associations under conditions of EU policy participation.
Set in the context of wider problems of EU popular legitimacy, the thesis explores a participatory model of EU policy making based around business associations as agents of participation. Policy participation implies public accountability, where there is an abundance of literature on the role of …
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The European Heritage Label: a critical review of a new EU policy
This Master’s thesis discusses a recent EU cultural policy, the European Heritage Label (EHL), introduced in 2011 to designate sites located in EU member states that have significance and symbolic value for European history and integration. I examine how the concepts of European cultural identity …
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Information flows in the context of EU policy-making : affiliation networks and the post-2012 reform of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy
Information flows in EU policy-making are heavily dependent on personal networks, both within the Brussels sphere but also reaching outside the narrow limits of the Belgian capital. These networks develop for example in the course of formal and informal meetings or at the sidelines of such …
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The EU & players’ agents: a theoretical analysis of the EU’s intervention into the regulation of players’ agents in Europe
This research investigates the EU's intervention into the regulation of players' agents, as a policy issue, in the context of EU sports policy. A socio-cultural perspective is developed through analyzing the EU policy actors of the socio-cultural advocacy coalition (the Education and Culture DG …
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From Inception to Professionalisation: the Evolution of Intercultural Dialogue in EU Mediterranean Policies (1990-2014)
… intercultural dialogue (ICD) in the framework of EU external action on the Mediterranean between 1990 and 2014. ICD is understood as a cultural foreign policy instrument that the EU has promoted in a changing, vague and contradictory manner to engage the civil societies of Europe and of the …
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The perceptions of a civil society organization towards anti-trafficking policy development in the European Union: a case study
… organization’s work relates to anti-trafficking policy development at the European Union (EU) level. The results indicated that volunteers were strongly committed to the work of their organization and half of the participants believed their work could influence EU anti-trafficking policy. Yet …
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The politics of re-orientation and responsibility: European Union foreign policy and human rights promotion in Asian countries
… in the context of the external relations of the European Union (EU). It sets out to examine, in particular, the position of human rights within the framework of EU foreign policy. While questions of human rights sparked a wide-ranging academic debate and resulted in enhanced levels of public …
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Europos Sąjungos politikos įgyvendinimas už jos ribų: Arkties regiono atvejis /
EU policy implementation beyond EU borders: case of the Arctic region Climate change is becoming more apparent every year and causing more and more issues. In 2015 United Nations initiated Paris Climate Convention which encouraged to reduce the causes of climate change. European Union has taken …
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Civil society in Wales and European Union policy-making
… explores the role that civil society plays in European Union policy-making and its democratic effects. It seeks to find out how, why, where and what civil society in Wales engages and does not engage in European Union policy-making. A contextual political opportunity structure (POS) approach is …
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The EU straying from the norm: How the European Union has changed its narrative to respond to China’s belt and road initiative
… along historical trade routes in parts of Europe, Asia, and the African continent with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The European Union (EU) is concerned with the effects that this initiative will have on the global status of the EU as well as on the relationships between the EU and …
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The Carbon Frame: Lobbying for Renewable Energy in the European Union
… stronger renewable energy policies in the European Union (EU). Within the EU, carbon is widely used to speak about many of the perils of climate change, global warming, energy policy, and contingent subject matters. In political circles, media outlets, and public debates, carbon acts a the …
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Ambiguous Borders: the European Commission and the reconstruction of borders
… discourse of one of the main institutions of the European Union (EU), the European Commission. My starting point is the observation of multiplication and transformation of EU and European borders as a result of the process of integration. This implies simultaneous processes of de-bordering, border …
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Internal divisions and security cultures: the impact of Turkish membership on the European Union's foreign and security policies
… impact that Turkish membership will have on the European Union’s foreign and security policies. It argues that any analysis of the impact of Turkey on the EU’s role as an international actor needs to take into account existing divisions within Europe and within Turkey in terms of security …
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EU regional policy : has the UK government succeeded in playing the gatekeeper over the domestic impact of the European Regional Development Fund.
… over the domestic impact of main instrument of European Union (EU) regional policy, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) In relation to the domestic financial impact, this research examines the UK government's implementation of the EU principle of additionality: that EU regional funds …
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Public health, free movement and macroeconomic coordination : mapping the evolving governance of European Union health policy
Health is a unique and intriguing sphere of European Union (EU) policy, not least of all because it has only been recognised as such for the last 15 years. From piecemeal origins in public health and occupational safety it underwent dramatic expansion as a result of exposure to free movement and …
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Intergovernmental cultural policy coordination in the European Union: the open method of coordination and the 2011-2014 work plan for culture
This thesis examines the European Union’s Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the field of cultural policy. The OMC, a method of intergovernmental policy coordination that is centrally coordinated by the European Commission, was introduced in the cultural field in 2008. Using a case study of …
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Internationalisering en interne regulering: Europese Unie milieu-, gezondheids- en consumentenbeschermingsregels 'in de schaduw van de WTO'
… rules and its dispute settlement mechanism, on European Union (EU) decision-making processes on health, environmental and consumer regulation. Starting with refuting the widely but mistakenly held assumption that WTO-rules and dispute rulings have direct effect, the main research question in …
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Reconciling Economic Efficiency and Social Needs? The EU, Objective 1 and Civil Society in Wales
… based study exploring the development of the 'European social model' and the particular argument that EU policy initiatives in this area indicate the end of old style, elite decision-making where the market was the primary frame of reference. It has been claimed that the European social model, …
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