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In March 2015, the Institute for Law and Finance in Frankfurt am Main held a full-day symposium which brought together leading representatives of the public and private sectors to deliver the first high level response to the questions posed by the Commission's Green Paper on Building a Capital Markets Union. These responses are collected in this volume.

Contents / Inhalt -- Foreword: The Dream of a European Civil Society -- Introduction: The project "Europe Renaissance" -- Einführung: Das Projekt "Europa-Renaissance" -- What is European Civil Society about? -- Die Sackgasse des "Immer enger vereint". Europa lebt vom Pluralismus nationaler Zivilgesellschaften -- Valeurs constitutionnelles européennes : les fondements juridiques de la construction d'une communauté politique -- Constitutional cacophony, polyphony or symphony: Fine-tuning the constitutional framework for a European concert in a stronger harmony -- Making the EU (more) flexible: Becoming 'European' without being a full member of the EU? -- The Reasons of Disenchantment of European Youth -- Communitarian Method vs. Intergovernmentalism -- An Approach to Auto-stereotypes of Russians -- How to become a European citizen? -- Hegel and Derrida on negativity -- How can Kant's Philosophy contribute to a Renaissance of European Thought? -- Jenseits der Wachstumsideologie: Europa kommt zur Besinnung -- Beyond growthism: Europe comes to its senses -- The authors -- Aufruf zu Beiträgen - Appel à contributions - Call for papers

This article argues that cooperation to tackle the consequences of large asylum migration inflows is possible only among fairly symmetrical countries. Highly asymmetric countries have no incentives to join and remain in a stable coalition. The distinction between cost and spillover asymmetries shows that financial transfers may release constraints on participation, and thus make asylum cooperation feasible, only if they are focused on tackling this asymmetry. This result becomes relevant when applied to the context of the enlarged European Union. I argue that there is the potential for a future cooperative burden-sharing regime for asylum, particularly if unanimity is replaced by the double majority principle in European Council votes, as suggested in the EU reform treaty.

Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- A. Einführung -- I. Gegenstand und These der Untersuchung -- II. Fragestellungen und Ansatz der Untersuchung -- III. Anlage und Methode der Untersuchung -- B. Grundlagen -- I. Ausgangspunkt: EU als globaler Akteur? -- 1. Begriff: "globaler Akteur" -- 2. Analyse des globalen Akteurscharakters der EU -- 3. Analyse des umweltpolitischen globalen Akteurscharakters der EU -- 4. Zwischenfazit: Forschungsbedarf zur EU als globaler Akteur -- II. Analytisches Fundament: Internationale Regime -- 1. Begriff und Gestalt: "Internationale Regime" -- 2. Hintergrund: Regimeforschung -- a) Regimeanalytik, -forschung, -konzept oder -theorie? -- b) Entwicklung der Regimeforschung -- c) Kritik am Regimekonzept -- 3. Regimeanalytische Untersuchungsgegenstände -- a) Regimestruktur -- b) Regimeakteure -- 4. Zwischenfazit: regimeanalytischer Prüfansatz -- III. Problemfelder: Umweltverschmutzungen in staatsfreien Räumen -- 1. Weltraum -- a) Begriff und Abgrenzung -- b) Nutzung und Bedeutung -- c) Umweltverschmutzung -- 2. Hohe See -- a) Begriff und Abgrenzung -- b) Nutzung und Bedeutung -- c) Umweltverschmutzung -- 3. Antarktis -- a) Begriff und Abgrenzung -- b) Nutzung und Bedeutung -- c) Umweltverschmutzung -- 4. Zwischenfazit: drei regimeanalytische Problemfelder -- IV. Zwischenergebnis: Analyseschema -- C. Regime zum Umweltschutz staatsfreier Räume und die EU -- I. Weltraum -- 1. Prinzipien -- 2. Normen -- a) Verbindlich -- b) Unverbindlich -- 3. Regeln -- a) Verbindlich -- b) Unverbindlich -- 4. Verfahren -- a) Kooperationsmechanismen innerhalb des Regimes -- b) Verfahren zur Veränderung des Regimes -- 5. Akteur: Europäische Union -- a) Policy-Rahmen: Raumfahrtpolitik -- b) Unionale Anknüpfungspunkte an das Regime -- 6. Zwischenfazit: Umweltschutz des Weltraums und die EU.

The paper deals with the brain drain phenomenon (rational minds migration), displayed inside the European Union, in close correlation with European tax competition. Speciality literature from the countries of the European Union deals with great responsibility the migration process of the specialists, numerous studies being dedicated to this phenomenon. Through the present paper we aim to study this correlation and the evaluation of the implications for the member states of the European Union, by elaborating a model by means of which there are tested the correlations between different variables and the quantification of the taxation effects upon the brain drain phenomenon. The model is an adaptation of the so-called "Model of the Brain Drain and human capital formation" elaborated by Mountford (1997) by which there are described the different researched variables: brain gain, brain drain, migration competition and tax competition. Obviously, the scenarios may be different from country to country depending on the different values of the two key factors taken into account: migration probability and considerable differences of technological capacity. ; peer-reviewed

Defence date: 25 February 2008 ; Examining Board: Professor Friedrich Kratochwil, European University Institute (Supervisor) Professor Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen (External Supervisor) Professor Michael Merlingen, Central European University Professor Pascal Vennesson, European University Institute ; First made available online 4 June 2015. ; This thesis enquires into the making of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) from the perspective of the actors endorsing and contesting the policy. By identifying the political milieu of the policy, it seeks to problematise the established depiction of ESDP and delineate the framing involved in designing and implementing the policy. I thus advance the argument about the all-pervading character of the political and I stipulate the value of micropolitical analysis for unpacking broad political arrangements. In order to trace security practices enacted through the policy, I explore in depth two instances of ESDP operations and a case of strengthening the UNIFIL forces to Lebanon via an EU initiative. I conclude that the ESDP has proven transformative both within the EU internal system of governance and vis-à-vis the EU's international positioning. The former involves the rise of domestic politics engendered by the interplay of institutional identities and conceptions of achieving EU security. The latter exposes the shift in the international role assignments wherein the EU becomes a deputy of the US and a saviour of the UN's reputation.