[PDF] Top 20 The European Constitution in the Making. CEPS Paperback. May 2004

... The central administration of the EU – the Commission, the Council and the Parliament – employs some 30,000 people, similar to the amount employed by the administration of a medium-sized European city such as ... See full document

... • Enhanced monitoring and forecasting capabilities. This can be accomplished by increasing the resources allocated to these functions. At present, the Commission sometimes does not even have one full-time person to deal ... See full document

... The second problem with this proposal is that, even abstracting from the time-consistency problem illustrated above, there is an obvious incentive to overestimate the budget savings from the medium-run package – for ... See full document

... in European Security comes at a time when the European Union has entered a protracted period of crisis, in the wake of the ‘voters’ revolt’ that took place in France and the Netherlands in the spring of ... See full document

... In addition, to adapt Henry Kissinger’s famous question, Europe now has a phone number. (It is +32 2 285 6111.) The personification of the CFSP in the shape of Javier Solana could perhaps have led to a series of ... See full document

... in 2004 will do to the EU ...which may be rising in importance as the EU matures as a political and societal ...This may at some stage come to have a disturbing effect on Norwegian society’s sense of ... See full document

... the European Council ...“Draft European decision of the European Council on the exercise of the Presidency of the Council” (document CIG 87/04), proposing a system whereby three member states ... See full document

... EU solidarity also takes a financial form through the transfer of financial means from the rich countries to the needier regions via the Community’s budget allocations from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund. ... See full document

... in 2004 and 2005 and the rising tensions within (and thus weakening of) the secular camp persuaded Hamas that the politically expedient moment has come to enter official institutions, namely the PLC, and depending ... See full document

... countries may be of more use than multilateral liberalisation (World Bank, 2004, ...of making slighter concessions at the multilateral level, so that the preference margins for bilateral associations ... See full document

... the European Parliamentary elections remain – as in the past years – to a high degree ‘second-class national contests’ where campaigns are dominated by distinctly domestic perceptions and ...the European ... See full document

... one may assume that a shift from a centrally planned economy to a market economy has certainly strengthened the role of economic motives in influencing individuals’ behaviour, it is interesting to see to what ... See full document

... What may appear to be a clear mandate for policy to improve liquidity will be misguided if the relation is the inverse of the one described ...costs may be higher precisely because certain securities ... See full document

... the European CIS ...the European CIS, the Balkans and the ...the European CIS states have another hub in Russia, whereas the EU is the only hub for the Balkans and the ...the European CIS ... See full document

... every European country, from France to ...This may seem paradoxical, but it is at the core of Turkish attitudes and needs to be understood as ...shared European sovereignty in ... See full document

... It was Prime Minister and later President Turgut Özal who, after a decade of turbulence, solidified Turkey’s image in Washington. He made himself a valued interlocutor during the Iran-Iraq war, and decisively manoeuvred ... See full document

... problem may lead to a revision of the whole EUCIVPOL ...the European and the ...dwindling European defence budgets will only allow achievement of a small part of the 58 objectives of the Defence ... See full document

... the European Commission, all the policy measures falling within the scope of the AFSJ are addressed within the DG ...the European Parliament and other key EU bodies are properly followed ...the ... See full document

... Abstract: European identity is not only a scientifically interesting question, but also a politically important issue: in fact, sixty years after the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the European Union finds ... See full document

... basic European values in order to facilitate a rapprochement with Russia, one should perhaps not be too optimistic concerning a clear EU position adhered to by all its member states in case some of the more ... See full document