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The most significant phenomenon occurring around us today is the European crisis. As well as being a "total social phenomenon" as classical French sociologist ́Emile Durkheim would have said, it also affects all the levels of our lives-be they political, economic, cultural or social. Nothing remains untouched. In other words, it represents a "perfect storm".This volume brings together the contributions of twenty authors, scientists from the "Ion I.C. Bræatianu" Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Romanian Academy, in response to this challenge. Using an expression

Public law liability for breaches of EU law has been subject to remarkable developments during the last two decades. This book examines the convergence between its two constituent systems: the damages liability of the EU and of its Member States for breaches of EU law.

"The current study aims to analyze certain trends in reporting about the European Monetary Union (EMU) in the press of four EU countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It examines the profile that the new currency has acquired when it was launched and particularly, the extent to which the currency is profiled in press reporting as a matter of national versus transnational as well as economic versus political significance. The purpose of this type of analysis is to examine the 'framing' of EMU. This study follows a well-established tradition in which media output is analyzed to examine how cumulative reporting of an issue (or a series of linked issues) results in a more or less coherent profile of the issue in question." (author's abstract)

Defence date: 29 February 2016 ; Examining Board: Professor Loïc Azoulai, European University Institute; Professor Bruno De Witte, European University Institute; Professor Giuseppe Martinico, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Pisa; Professor Laurent Pech, Middlesex University London. ; The dissertation aims at studying the historical institutional evolution of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the judicial arm of the supranational European community. The Court has been largely analysed, in the multidisciplinary field of European studies, particularly because of its central role in the process of continental integration, for the role played for the evolution of the European Union legal order. The perspective I would like to suggest and to develop in this work tries to differentiate itself by taking a somehow reverse standpoint. First, I will focus on the evolution of the Court itself, more than on the impressive evolution of the EU legal order and its judge-made nature. Naturally, this last aspect will be the background of my analysis. In this respect, I will not be much concerned with the evolution of case law, jurisprudence or the interpretative activity of the European Court but more on the structure and the organization of the Court itself, taken as an institution. Finally, I will try to develop this approach by making use of the precious insights provided by the comparative analysis of law. I will select some specific yet central aspects of the structural, organizational, institutional development of the Court in the decades since its foundation and will do this with a purpose. My aim is to show, through a comparative analysis, how the development and institutional evolution of the Court of Justice of the European Union can be considered mimetic - able to engage and somehow internalize the solicitations which came from EU Member States influences of different legal traditions (with increasing strain as the EU grew dimensionally) and responding to global challenges in relation to the increasing role of the international forms of judicial review and of the international judicial review bodies. This proved decisive, I argue, for strengthening the authority of the Court of Justice in its federal judicial architecture.

The turn of the century was full of dynamic and multi-dimensional changes in the global economy. The most spectacular phenomena may include financial crises. They exerted influence not only on the economy, in which they appeared, but as a result of deepening of globalization, spread "infecting" others. The purpose of this article was an attempt to find similarities in the dynamics of changes in production and global demand that characterized the economy of the selected European Union countries. The starting point was to show the dynamics of gross domestic product (GDP) in selected countries and to find similarities between them. In the next section, attention was focused on the changes in the two components of aggregate demand: consumption and investment, particularly on their correlation with the rate of change of GDP. For analysis and comparisons, the following economies were selected: the economy of the European Union (represented by the euro zone) and the economy of Central and Eastern Europe.

The turn of the century was full of dynamic and multi-dimensional changes in the global economy. The most spectacular phenomena may include financial crises. They exerted influence not only on the economy, in which they appeared, but as a result of deepening of globalization, spread "infecting" others. The purpose of this article was an attempt to find similarities in the dynamics of changes in production and global demand that characterized the economy of the selected European Union countries. The starting point was to show the dynamics of gross domestic product (GDP) in selected countries and to find similarities between them. In the next section, attention was focused on the changes in the two components of aggregate demand: consumption and investment, particularly on their correlation with the rate of change of GDP. For analysis and comparisons, the following economies were selected: the economy of the European Union (represented by the euro zone) and the economy of Central and Eastern Europe.

During the seminar Dr Åsa Hansson (Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden) discussed recent attempts made by international organizations such as OECD, G20 and EU and individual countries to make capital taxation possible. For instance, the number of countries that have agreed to exchange information about capital investments has increased drastically and means to shifts profits to low-tax countries have become harder. The attempts are welcome and improve the possibilities to tax capital but come at costs. Research shows that international coordination works best if all countries agree and gain from the coordination. This is unlikely to happen and small countries located far from the centre are likely to lose the most from coordination. ; N/A

Cover -- INTRODUCTION The structure of the book and case for a holistic approach to European citizenship -- (i) The structure of the book -- Chapter 1: How did European citizenship emerge in the context of the European Union? -- Chapter 2: How did European citizenship progress, particularly as a result of the Court of Justice of the European Union? -- Chapter 3: European rights to free movement: both extensively practiced and controversial. -- Chapter 4: What wide-open challenges for the future of European citizenship? -- Chapter 5: Mind the gaps - how can European citizens' rights be better enforced and enlarged ? -- Chapter 6: How can access and involvement of citizens to the EU Institutions be made more effective? -- Chapter 7: How to develop European citizenship by strengthening participatory and representative democracy? -- Chapter 8: Once found, can Cinderella acquire more universal appeal? -- (ii) The case for a holistic approach to European citizenship -- The scattered approach to European citizenship by the EU Institutions, civil society and the research community. -- European Institutions. -- Civil society -- The research community. -- The lack therefore of a community of interest round European citizenship. -- PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR CINDERELLA -- CHAPTER 1 How did European citizenship emerge in the context of the European Union? -- (i) The European Treaties and judicial impetus towards European citizenship -- (ii) Progress towards a peoples' Europe -- CHAPTER 2 How did the concept of European citizenship progress particularly as a result of the Court of Justice of the European Union? -- CHAPTER 3 European rights to free movement: both extensively practiced and controversial -- (i) Patterns of free movement of people -- (ii) Costs and benefits of labour mobility -- (iii) Combatting scaremongering about free movement of persons.

This path-breaking book explores the new European energy policy, highlighting the significance of environmental policy concerns, instruments, and objectives vis-a-vis competing security and market dimensions in order to achieve an all-embracing EU energy policy perspective for the future. While the past years have witnessed unprecedented development of EU energy policy, the understanding of this process has lagged behind. Alongside the scarce literature on this emergent policy, there is also a gap regarding the attention paid to its different components. The study stems from the perception of a mismatch between the valuable debate that certain dimensions of energy policy - namely, energy security and the market and competition framework - have triggered and the neglect of its environmental and climate change dimensions. European Energy Policy will prove to be insightful for academics and postgraduate students interested in European integration, political science, international relations, public policy and environmental science. Energy stakeholders and governmental policymakers will also find plenty of invaluable information in this enriching resource

Award date: 31 December 1994 ; Supervisor: Prof. R. Dehousse ; First published online: 28 July 2016