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This book describes how the political institutions in 8 small member states and 2 non-member states have responded to the internal and external demands springing from the process of European integration and EC/EU membership.

The European debt crisis has had significant political and economic implications throughout the Eurozone, particularly for its peripheral South. These were especially obvious for Greece, which had to face elevated levels of austerity and sign three different bailout programs within eight years to remain economically solvent and retain its position in the context of European institutions. Here, we track how the perception of the work values of Greeks by other member states—such as Germany, Slovakia or Finland—along with ensuing public debates adversely affected the bailout program design and implementation in Greece, and had significant political consequences throughout the Eurozone.

This book presents a comparative perspective to the study of European politics, focusing on the unique and transformative effect of European Union on the politics of its member states - in effect, the Europeanization of European politics. For no other world region is there a similar intensity of Treaty and other obligations on a set of neighboring states, nor a comparable depth of of supranational governance. The concept of Europeanism as an evaluative theme is used to explore this unique, sui generis, region, its states, and its political transformation in the 21st century.

The EU Whistleblower Directive, adopted in 2019, shifts whistleblowing in the European Union from a marginal issue to a world leading example of empowering public voices. What explains this shift? The EU Whistleblower Directive cannot be understood without an inquiry into its legislative background. The latter also sheds new light on EU law-making practice, particularly how public participation can have a considerable influence and how the Commission steers legislation, to abide by principles of conferral and subsidiarity, when primary law is silent on its legislative powers. Central in this article is the legal assessment of the EU Whistleblower Directive. The article, however, seeks to go a step further. Drawing on a range of incremental legal developments in whistleblowing, it offers the first sustained account of what it argues has become a field of law of its own – EU whistleblower law.

Analyses the administrative system in the European Union with a focus on the efficiency and legitimacy of the administrative practices. In the analysis, three distinct theoretical perspectives are used (a structural, a procedural and a cultural), thus ensuring the inclusion of a broad variety of factors.

There are many reasons for establishment of the European Union, but there are a lot of issues that European Union has to address continually and immediately, and there are even more issues, crucial for further profiling and survival of European Union, that have not been even considered yet. One of the unresolved and very important issues is its language. The dilemma is language (languages) of European Union and the question of fate of local (native) languages.