La région europénne et la question fédérale à l'ére de l'élargissement de l'Union Européenne à l'Èst

The council of ministers

The Council of Ministers lies at the fulcrum of decision-making in the European Union. It is a key legislative institution, an executive institution in important policy areas, and a forum through which politicians and policy-makers from the member states address shared challenges and develop collective ...

La constitucionalizazión de Europa

Las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo

(1979-2004): un análisis de sociología electoral

Es este un valioso trabajo de recopilación y sistematización que permite pasar de la noticia inmediata o de la foto fija de una legislatura determinada a elaborar una narración con dimensión histórica. Hay muchos apuntes y sugerencias, pistas de trabajo e investigación, que surgen de ...

National and regional parliaments in the european constitutional order

How does the Parliament of the United Kingdom hold ministers to account for their European policies? How does the EU principle of subsidiarity affect the relation between Westminster and the Scottish Parliament? How does Belgium accomodate its powerful regional assemblies into the European role of ...

La nouveau guide pratique du labyrinthe communautaire

Une nouvelle Commission européenne, un nouveau Parlement européen, dix nouveaux Etats membres, une Constitution pour l'Europe... Un tout nouveau Guide Pratique du Labyrinthe Communautaire. Tout comprendre des institutions européennes, structures, pouvoirs, procédures, par l'exemple, le schéma, la synthèse.

Comparative federalism

the European Union and the United States in comparative perspective

The Convention on the Future of Europe served to galvanize debate about the nature and future developmental trajectory of the European Union. More specifically, it engendered discussion over the degree to which the process resembled that which had occurred in Philadelphia some two hundred years ...

Lobbying in the European Union

A compact pocket guide explaining the different types of lobbies, the decision-making system within the EU, as well as outlining the most opportune times for lobbying during the decision-making process. Contact details of some seven hundred trade associations and NGOs involved in lobbying are also ...

Le droit du Conseil de l'Europe

vers un espace juridique Paneuropéen

Building Europe's Parliament

democratic representation beyond the nation-state

I comitati dell'Unione Europea

la collegialità amministrativa negli ordinamenti compositi

EU enlargement and referendums

A series of EU accession referendums were held in nine candidate countries, eight post-communist states and Malta, between March and September 2003. These referendums provide us with an excellent comparative opportunity to deepen our understanding of the European integration issue and how it interacts with ...

Droit institutionnel de l'Union Européenne

Cet ouvrage, destiné au premier chef aux étudiants, mais également aux universitaires et praticiens, a pour objet l'étude du droit institutionnel de l'Union européenne. Il retrace l'évolution historique de l'intégration communautaire et de la " pensée européenne " et expose les perspectives d ...

Comitology

delegation of powers in the European Union and the Committee System

In almost all fields of cooperation that are covered by the EC Treaty, the formal competence to adopt legislation has been assigned to the Council (which must normally collaborate with the European Parliament), and in order to separate powers, the formal competence to prepare the ...

La gouvernance supranationale dans la construction européenne

A l'heure du débat sur la ratification du traité instituant une Constitution pour l'Europe la question de la gouvernance supranationale est devenue une question qui concerne l'opinion publique dans tous les pays membres de l'Union européenne. Dans cet ouvrage, 15 historiens ...

Doce años de esfuerzo por la democracia en Europa

el mecanismo de control de la Asamblea Parlamentaria del Consejo de Europa, 1993-2005

Dictionnaire des élections europeennes

Comment se déroulent les élections au suffrage universel direct des parlementaires européens? Comment comprendre les résultats électoraux des scrutins européens depuis 1979? Quelles sont les modalités pratiques et symboliques mises en ouvre lors des élections du Parlement européen? Quelles conséquences politiques et identitaires ces élections ...

Die Europäische Aktiengesellschaft

Umsetzungsfragen und Perspektiven

The European Union and e-Voting

addressing the European Parliament's internet voting challenge

The European Union and E- Voting investigates one of the latest potential changes in the 'technology of democracy' - electronic voting. It explores how it may impact on traditional mechanisms of democratic participation, raising issues that go to the very core of contemporary governance. Among the ...

Politics and the European Commission

actors, interdependence, legitimacy

The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research ...