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pt. 1. European law as a process between constitutionalization and democratization -- pt. 2. An ever closer union : an ever larger market: lawyers and the transnational construction of European institutions and markets -- pt. 3. Language as barrier and carrier of European legal integration -- pt. 4. Exceptionalism and normalization : ambiguity and honour in European integration processes.

Hauptbeschreibung Das Schicksal des am 29. Oktober 2004 unterzeichneten Verfassungsvertrages ist nach wie vor ungewiss. Aber auch unabhängig von den Chancen seines Inkrafttretens bilden die in ihm enthaltenen Bestimmungen den Ausgangspunkt jeder weiteren Diskussion über die Zukunft der Europäischen Union. Dies gilt für die politischen Entscheidungsträger ebenso wie für die Wissenschaft. Aus diesem Grund haben die Herausgeber des vorliegenden Bandes - Matthias Niedobitek ist Inhaber der Professur für Europäische Integration, Simone Ruth ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Professur - die am 7. Juli 2005 an der TU Chemnitz durchgeführte Tagung "Die Europäische Union am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts" einzelnen Aspekten des Verfassungsvertrages gewidmet. Die Besonderheit der Tagung bestand darin, dass sie von Studierenden der Chemnitzer Europa-Studiengänge organisiert, moderiert und wissenschaftlich gestaltet wurde; hierbei wurden die Studierenden von den beiden Herausgebern betreut. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert in fünf studentischen Beiträgen Ergebnisse der Tagung, welche die beiden Herausgeber um eigene Beiträge ergänzt haben. Alle Abhandlungen beschäftigen sich mit grundlegenden Problemen des Verfassungsvertrages: den rechtlichen und politischen Handlungsmöglichkeiten in der gegenwärtigen Ratifikationskrise, der künftigen Rolle der regionalen Ebene in der EU aus Sicht der Bundesländer, den unionsrechtlichen Voraussetzungen der nunmehr ausdrücklich vorgesehenen Möglichkeit des Austritts aus der Union, den neu eingefügten Beistands- und Solidaritätsklauseln unter Berücksichtigung völkerrechtlicher Aspekte, der Konzeption und Einrichtung eines Europäischen Auswärtigen Dienstes, der Konventsmethode im Verfahren der Vertragsänderung und ihrer Kritik aus rechtspolitischer Sicht sowie dem Spannungsverhältnis von formal-vertragsrechtlichem

1. Introduction / Philippe De Lombaerde and Michael Schulz -- 2. Supporting regional integration and cooperation worldwide : an overview of the European Union approach / Giulia Pietrangeli -- 3. Exporting the European model of regional integration : the case of agriculture / Sebastian Zaleski and Felix Mittermayer -- 4. EU trade strategy and regionalism : assessing the impact on Europe's developing country partners / Clive George, Tomasz Iwanow and Colin Kirkpatrick -- 5. Toes in the water : the 'makability' of ASEAN and European commission support to economic integration in Southeast Asia under the ASEAN-EU Programme for Regional Integration Support (APRIS) / David Martin -- 6. The European Union and the 'making' of South American regionalism / Jose Briceno Ruiz and Andres Rivarola Puntigliano -- 7. NAFTA parity in real time and the 'making' of the EU-Mexico partnership / Rosalba Icaza Garza -- 8. Normative Europe : changing values and attitudes in Central America / Jose Caballero -- 9. An assessment of European Union cooperation towards the Andean Community (1992-2007) / Marleny Bustamante and Rita Giacalone -- 10. The role of epistemic communities in the 'makability' of MERCOSUR / Mercedes Isabel Botto -- 11. An evaluation of the EU-Mediterranean region-building from the perspective of the regionalization process in the Mediterranean / Ana Bojinovic Fenko -- 12. The EU's ambitious regionalization of the South Caucasus / Syuzanna Vasilyan -- 13. The EU and (sub-) regional organizations in North-Eastern Europe : impact on (sub-) regional cooperation and integration / Tobias Etzold -- 14. The making of the East African Community : a case study / Karel van Hoestenberghe, Hein Roelfsema and Swabiri Khalidi -- 15. The EU and regional integration in Central Africa : promoting inter-regionalism as an incentive to the regionalist scheme? / Firmin Mbala -- 16. Commonwealth(s) of regions extra-EU? Anglophone globalization and new regionalisms / Timothy M. Shaw -- 17. EU support to regional integration worldwide and the 'makability' of regions : conclusions / Philippe De Lombaerde and Michael Schulz.

The study is dealing with the evolution and the current patterns on marriage and family formation in Greece, as well as the related young population matters, by analyzing the demographic trends during the Post World War II, the temporary attitudes and behavior, especially of young people and the socio-economic factors associated with these trends. To meet these tasks, secondary and survey data are employed, demographic indicators are constructed and descriptive plus non parametric statistics are used. The similarities and differences across Europe are identified as Greece is partly following the southeastern demographic pattern and attitudes towards marriage and family formation, but also the particularities even from the other Mediterranean-Southern countries. The demographic and attitudinal differences among societies are due to the different time period that each of these passed through the certain phases of social and economic transformations. ; peer-reviewed

Through an interdisciplinary analysis of the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union, this book offers 'thick' descriptions, contextual histories and critical narratives engaging with leading or minor personalities involved behind the scenes of each case. The contributions depart from the notion that EU law and its history should be narrated in a linear and incremental way to show instead that law evolves in a contingent and not determinate manner. The book shows that the effects of judge-made law remain relatively indeterminate and each case can be retold through different contextual narratives, and shows the commitment of the European legal elites to the experience of legal reasoning. The idea to cluster the stories around prominent cases is not to be fully comprehensive, but to re-focus the scholarship and teaching of EU law by moving beyond the black letter and unravel the lawyering techniques to achieve policy results

In the European Monetary Union, the estimation and analysis of preference parameters in its members is of special interest because possible differences could help us to understand why a common monetary policy could have different effects on the different economies involved. In this paper we have focused our attention on the elasticity of intertemporal substitution, one of the key preference parameters in intertemporal macroeconomic models.
Different studies have shown a possible underestimation of such elasticity for different countries. It is common practice to estimate the parameter using only non-durable goods and service consumption data, without referring to the service flows generated by durable consumption. This is only admissible if the intratemporal utility can be separated among the different consumption components. Our priority objective is therefore to test the assumption of intratemporal separability for a selection of European countries (Germany, Spain and France), and then to analyse the effect of durable consumption on the estimated values of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution of these countries, our ultimate goal. Knowledge of such elasticity will enable us to characterise how saving in these economies reacts to variations in the real interest rate.

"The European Union is increasingly being asked to manage crises inside and outside the Union. From terrorist attacks to financial crises, and natural disasters to international conflicts, many crises today generate pressures to collaborate across geographical and functional boundaries. What capacities does the EU have to manage such crises? Why and how have these capacities evolved? How do they work and are they effective? This book offers a holistic perspective on EU crisis management. It defines the crisis concept broadly and examines EU capacities across policy sectors, institutions and agencies. The authors describe the full range of EU crisis management capacities that can be used for internal and external crises. Using an institutionalisation perspective, they explain how these different capacities evolved and have become institutionalized. This highly accessible volume illuminates a rarely examined and increasingly important area of European cooperation"--Publisher's website

This article reports on research into the division of paid and unpaid work between men and women in the EU. The research was carried out in the framework of a relevant European Network initiated and coordinated by Tilburg University in which all the countries of the European Union have participated. However, fieldwork research was carried out in seven countries only. The theoretical framework adopted for the research was based on Bourdieu's Theory of Practice. Analysis of the data, which focused on couples with at least one child under the age of 7, shows that in these countries traditional gender roles still largely persist. Men continue to be the main breadwinners, while they spend on average about half the time women do on childcare and even less time on household chores. Moreover, a discrepancy is observed between men's positive attitudes towards sharing housework in theory and the non-division of housework in practice, while public policies have little or no effect on this situation.