La Unión Europea ante la globalización

"una vez más es un honor presentar las actas de otro de los congresos organizados por el Instituto de Estudios Europeos y Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Pontifícia de Salamanca. Fundado bajo el patrocinio de San Benito y la inspiración de René Cassin, este centro ...

The european economy in an American mirror

Europe's economy is under strain due to lagging productivity growth, population ageing, the difficulties of adjustment in an enlarged European Union, and the challenges of globalization. In comparison with America, rates of growth of GDP per capita and labour productivity growth are anaemic, raising ...

Economía de la Unión Europea

El libro pretende dar una visión de los logros que se han materializado en las distintas parcelas de la integración europea y la evolución estructural de las políticas, resaltando los grandes avances cualitativos que se han ido dando desde que la Unión inicia su singladura ...

Instituciones de la Unión Europea (1651-2007)

Este manual es una valiosa aportación para la formación de los jóvenes ciudadanos eurpeos con conciencia de serlo y vocación de contribuir al progreso de la cosntrucción de la Unión Europea.

Europa en la Era Global

Europa en la era global es una mirada amplia y contextualizadora a la construcción de la nueva Europa, a partir de los nuevos retos que se plantean: la inmigración y el nuevo estado del bienestar. El sociólogo británico sostiene que debemos replantearnos el estado del ...

The political economy of the Eurpean Constitution

The enlargement process, the creation of the Monetary Union and the need to promote further the political and economic integration of Europe have ignited an intense debate at the European level among researchers and policy-makers. This book reviews and provides new contributions on the political ...

Governance and civil society in the European Union. Vol. 1

Normative perspectives

There is no contesting the ubiquity of the term governance in contemporary social science and public discourse. From a rather innocuous start as a term to describe ways in which corporate firms should be managed, it has come to challenge some of the dominant forms ...

Governance and civil society in the European Union. Vol. 2

Exploring policy issues

This volume focuses on the role of organised civil society in European public policies. The contributions discuss the role of public-pressure groups and their relations with organised business and institutional actors. They consider the role of interest groups towards providing the EU policy process with ...

Access to social Europe

'Access to Social Europe - 5th Edition' presents the many facets of a wide-ranging policy that has repercussions on the everyday life of all European Union (EU) citizens. The 5th edition has been revised and updated, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the major political and ...

La politique régionale européenne

vers une remise en cause de l'objectif de convergence

La politique régionale européenne vise à satisfaire les objectifs de cohésion économique, sociale et territoriale énoncés dans les Traités communautaires. La convergence économique des régions constitue un élément déterminant. Plusieurs obstacles -telle la hausse des inégalités de richesse entre les Etats membres- et critiques -sur ...

La politique agricole commune

La politique agricole commune (Pac), qui fut au c#ur de la construction européenne, divise aujourd'hui les Etats membres. On lui reproche son coût et la répartition inégalitaire de ses bénéfices. On l'accuse de nuire aux pays en développement, voire d'être responsable ...

Europe after enlargement

Where is Europe going? In this collection, several prominent European economists offer essays on the five big challenges to the development of the European Union (EU). Namely, the new European Constitution, European finances and the Euro, the need to boost economic growth, competition in both ...

Economics of the European Union

politics and analysis

The new edition of this successful text analyses the current economic issues facing a rapidly changing Europe. The authors combine policy, history and data to present a global perspective of the EU, written with a range of students taking an introductory module in European Economics ...

The Euroepan Union and culture

between economic regulation and european cultural policy

"The European Union and Culture" explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector - understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed ...

Building states without society

European Union enlargement and the transfer of EU social policy to Poland and Hungary

Focusing on the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, "Building States without Society" highlights the real limits of cross-national rule transfer even when power is uneven between rule-makers and rule- takers.

Enviromental politics in the European Union

This book provides a comprehensive introduction into the making, the development and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. The environmental policy of the European Union (EU) has made impressive progress during the last three decades. Starting off as little more than a by-product of ...

Ecological economics and industrial ecology

a case study of the integrated product policy of the European Union

Holistic in approach and rooted in the real world, "Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology" presents a new way of looking at environmental policy; exploring the relationship between ecological economics and industrial ecology. Concentrating on the conceptual background of ecological economics and industrial ecology, this book ...

Posibilidades de la teleformación en el espacio europeo de educación superior

La humanidad ha pasado por diferentes revoluciones tecnológicas, que a grandes rasgos han ido desde la agrícola y artesanal, a la industrial, postindustrial y de la información o del conocimiento. Esta última podemos definirla citando lo comentado por la Comisión Sociedad Información (2003): un estadio ...

Europe as an economic powerhouse

how the old continent is gaining new strength

Europe as an Economic Powerhouse asserts that Europe's economic performance is far below its true potential. Europe's twin challenges today are to overcome obstacles to meeting its fundamental objectives and to strengthen the economy in the face of increasing internal and external pressures ...

Europe in figures 2006-07

Europe in figures # Eurostat yearbook 2006-07 # presents a comprehensive selection of statistical data on the European Union, its Member States and candidate countries. Most data cover the period 1995#2005 and some data include other countries such as the USA and Japan. With almost 400 ...