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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"European Commission"”.
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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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Enforcing the Unenforceable: Politicisation and the European Commission in the economic governance of the European Union
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The collection, treatment and disposal of municipal solid waste arisings in London: key recommendations to ensure compliance with European Commission Directive led drivers and targets
… waste management authorities to comply with the European Directives on waste management. Firstly, starting with an extensive literature review to ascertain current practice, and based on rigorous methods of methodology the research investigated the techniques utilised by the municipal waste …
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The Phenomenon of the European Union, the Energy Policy Objectives of the European Commission and the National Preferences of the Member States – A Defensive Realist Analysis
… of the multidimensional phenomenon of the European Union and then makes an inquiry on the development of the Community’s energy policy focusing on the European Commission’s objectives and the national preferences of the Member States. With the utilization of conceptual tools found in the …
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The Liberalisation of European Energy Markets: The Use of Competition Law as a Regulatory Tool
… thesis is to examine the approach adopted by the European Commission in recently regulated energy markets. Antitrust investigations indicate that the European Commission increasingly tends to implement competition law, in particular through commitment decisions, in order to create a quasi-ex ante …
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A comissão europeia e as políticas europeias de educação superior: uma análise a partir do Processo de Bolonha e do Método Aberto de Coordenação
… study aims to indicate the participation of the European Commission in the European policies in higher education and to understand if there has been an increase in this participation in comparison to the participation of the States. Besides the research in the existing literature, this paper used …
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Interactions between courts and administrative authorities in EU competition law enforcement
… of 2004 decentralised enforcement from the European Commission to national competition authorities and national courts, while the European Commission remains central to the system. This thesis responds to a need for research into how institutions interact in this system of concurrent …
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Is the EU "Going Too Far"? Examining the divide between the legislator within the EU and members of the financial market
In 2010 the European Commission released a discussion paper entitled ‘Green Paper: Lessons from the crisis’ in which they expressed the need to reinforce the audit system in order to help prevent future financial failure. Regarding the issue of auditor independence, the European Commission …
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Migration and Political Discourse: Comparing the Visegrad Group and European Union Institutional Narratives
… has been a significant topic of debate among European politicians, political parties, academics and journalists. With the mass arrival of third-country nationals to the European Union, many different arguments, proposals, and approaches to managing migration have emerged. The complex nature of …
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The influence of the Finnish forestry industry’s interest groups on the EU Nature Restoration Law: framing forestry as environmentally and economically important while resisting EU governance in forestry
… tactics in their position papers directed to the European Commission. I locate my research in the fields of EU studies, theories of European integration, EU lobbying research, and frame analysis. The research answers the following questions: 1) what frames did the Finnish forestry interest groups …
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The Anticompetitive Misuse of Intellectual Property Rights in the European Pharmaceutical Sector
… is currently a centre of attention for the European Commission, with one decision against Lundbeck and Statements of Objections in investigations against Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, and Les Laboratoires Servier. This thesis is the first to develop in detail a ‘European approach’ to pay for …
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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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The European Community’s Relations with the Soviet Union (1973-1991)
… perspective of Brussels. From 1958 to 1972, the European Economic Community (EEC) permitted its member states to handle trade with the USSR on a bilateral basis. In 1973, this changed, and the European Commission would oversee trade, forcing Moscow, which had until then refrained from even …
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An Examination of inter-business cooperation by wine and tourism small and medium-sized businesses in the Douro valley of Portugal.
… information and certain skills (Morrison 1998; European Commission 2003), lack of know-how (Schermerhorn 1980), and scarce resources (e.g. human, financial and material) (Morrison 1998; European Commission 2003). Thus, SMEs need to look for specific ways that can help them to bring in …
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EK komunikacijos generalinio direktorato veikla ES komunikacijos strategijos įgyvendinime /
Communication is an important part of the European Union democracy. European citizens have a right, as the intended beneficiaries of policy and as active participants in the democratic system, to impartial, objective and full information on the European Union in all official languages. Furthermore, …
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Coordinating Compromise: Information Manipulation and Bicameral Bargaining in the European Union
The European Union relies on a complicated—some would say arcane—set of institutions and legislative rules to develop public policy that affects millions of Europeans. Actors within these institutions must effectively navigate this convoluted institutional structure in order to legislate. …
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Convergence, coooperation, coordination : higher education governance and the Bologna process
… the Bologna Declaration in 1999 to establish a European Higher Education Area by 2010. This initiated the Bologna process, which had broad objectives in the realm of higher education: to increase mobility and improve the comparability and competitiveness of European universities. Since 1999, the …
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY REGIONAL POLICY: A STUDY OF THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
… develops the argument that research on the European Community (EC) could be enriched by studies of how Community policies are implemented. The processes by which EC policies are formulated have been the subject of a great deal of research. However, the way in which these policies are …
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Modell der mutterlosen Aufzucht von Hundewelpen zur Wirksamkeitsprüfung probiotischer Substanzen
… animal categories dogs, cats and horses of the European Commission of October 2000. The orphan rearing of neonatal puppies was chosen as trial method, the only method to ensure avoidance of interindividual differences such as quality and quantity of mother milk. Another advantage is exact …
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Neofunctionalism Vs Liberal Intergovernmentalism; The Creation Of The European Stability Mechanism And The Limits Of Political Theory
… theory, with respect to the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the ""Pact for the Euro"" on March 25, 2011 in Brussels. After a 14-month long period of great controversy among the supranational agentsof the European Commission and the representatives of member states of …
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