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Community sponsorship has become an increasingly popular instrument for setting up safe and legal pathways to protection in recent years. As part of its New Pact on Asylum and Migration, the European Commission now assumed ownership of the concept and called for a distinct "European model" of community sponsorship. However, the Commission remains vague as to how a European approach should look like. This Policy Brief analyses existing sponsorship schemes in EU member states and argues that a "European model" should be based on two principles: the additionality of sponsorship schemes and their focus on the protection of beneficiaries.

On 27 and 28 September 2007, a commission formed on the initiative of the authors held its first meeting in Aarhus, Denmark to deliberate on its goal of drafting a "European Model Company Law Act" (EMCLA). This project, outlined in the following pages, aims neither to force a mandatory harmonization of national company law nor to create a further, European corporate form. The goal is rather to draft model rules for a corporation that national legislatures would be free to adopt in whole or in part. Thus, the project is thought as an alternative and supplement to the existing EU instruments for the convergence of company law. The present EU instruments, their prerequisites and limits will be discussed in more detail in Part II, below. Part III will examine the US experience with such "model acts" in the area of company law. Part IV will then conclude by discussing several topics concerning the content of an EMCLA, introducing the members of the EMCLA Working Group, and explaining the Group's preliminary working plan.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on the Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- PART I Theorizing Multiculturalism -- 1 The Twilight of Multiculturalism? Findings from across Europe -- 2 Contemporary Citizenship and Diversity in Europe: The Place of Multiculturalism -- 3 The Challenge of Multiculturalism: Political Philosophy and the Question of Diversity -- PART II Multiculturalism's Pioneers and (Ex-)enthusiasts -- 4 The 'Civic Re-balancing' of British Multiculturalism, and Beyond . . . -- 5 The Dutch Multicultural Myth -- 6 Immigrant Integration and Multiculturalism in Belgium -- 7 The Political Dynamics of Multiculturalism in Sweden -- PART III Multicultural Societies without Multiculturalism? -- 8 Public Debates and Public Opinion on Multiculturalism in Germany -- 9 Danish Multiculturalism, Where Art Thou? -- 10 Multiculturalism Italian Style: Soft or Weak Recognition? -- 11 Redefining a (Mono)cultural Nation: Political Discourse against Multiculturalism in Contemporary France -- PART IV Multiculturalism's Future Converts? -- 12 Poland: Multiculturalism in the Making? -- 13 Multinationalism, Mononationalism or Transnationalism in Russia? -- 14 Multiculturalism and Minorities in Turkey -- PART V Conclusion -- 15 Multiculturalism: Symptom, Cause or Solution? -- Index

"Dieser Artikel untersucht, welche Funktionen der Verweis auf Europa in den englischen und deutschen Debatten über Kolonialkriege und imperialistische Interventionen um 1900 hatte. Welche Europarepräsentationen dienten den Kriegsbefürwortern als Legitimationsressource, wie instrumentalisierten Kritiker Europabilder, um für ihre politischen Positionen zu werben? So wird etwa gezeigt, wie die Repräsentationen Russlands als mehr oder weniger europäisch dazu dienten, dieses Land als Rivalen oder Kooperationspartner in imperialen Kontexten darzustellen. Im Zentrum des Artikels steht jedoch die Frage, inwieweit Militäreinsätze in der außereuropäischen Welt damit legitimiert wurden, das europäische Modell zu verbreiten (die 'Zivilisierungsmission'). Hier ist die zentrale These, dass eine solche Argumentation nur dann eine prominente Rolle spielte, wenn die entsprechenden Militäreinsätze ohnehin populär und erfolgreich waren." (Autorenreferat)

This paper will presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the Portuguese Economic and Social History Association on "Globalization: Long-Term Perspectives" Lisbon, 16-17 November 2007, and is forthcoming in P. Della Posta, A. Verdun and M. Uvalic (eds), Interpreting globalization: a European Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. We are grateful to Jeff Frieden for a stimulating discussion of this paper and would also like to thank the editors of the above-referred volume as well as Erik Jones, Phil Schmitter, Francesco Farina and other participants in our conference panels at the EUI in Florence in 2006 and at the ECPR meetings in Pisa in 2007 for their useful comments. Any remaining errors and omissions are of course our responsibility. ; The issue of whether the 'European model' is viable in a globalized world raises the question as to what defines and conditions any European model and its competitiveness in the context of globalization and the new economy. For the sake of sustainability of its model but also to sustain support for globalization the European Union (EU) needs to take economic advantage of globalization and the knowledge-based economy. Challenges in a high-cost, high-productivity economy mean that there is a premium on dynamic efficiency gains from the liberalization and reform of markets and an economic and institutional framework that fosters innovation and flexible adjustment. The paper examines how the EU deals with governance issues and political economy factors from this perspective. The EU model, if able to legitimize itself with respect to the European integration process may as well contribute to a legitimate political governance of globalization. ; Research Fellow at IEEI and Professor and Research Coordinator at IEE-UCP, Lisbon, respectively. They are both regular visiting professors at the National Institute for Public Administration (INA). This paper is part of an FCT research project on Economic Growth, Convergence and Institutions (research grant POCI/EGE/55423/2004, ...