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The purpose of this paper is to investigate and measure the proportion of changes in wholesale prices transferred to private consumption prices in European Union economy. The data used in the investigation are monthly, covering the period from 1996:9 to 2001:7 and refer to consumer price indexes and wholesale price indexes of all products. Cointegration method is used in order to investigate the cost transfer from wholesale prices to consumer prices, or in other words to test the existence or not of a long-term equilibrium relationship between the two prices. ; peer-reviewed

Cover -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Counterterrorism Cooperation and International Bureaucracies: Research Questions and Objectives -- 1.2 State of Research -- 1.2.1 Research on Counterterrorism Cooperation -- 1.2.2 International Bureaucracies in International Relations Theory -- 1.3 Research Design and Methods -- 1.3.1 The Method of Structured, Focused Comparison -- 1.3.2 Case Selection -- 1.3.3 Sources -- 1.4 Outline -- 2 Analyzing International Bureaucracies: A Theoretical Framework -- 2.1 International Governmental Organizations: From Instruments to Actors -- 2.2 From International Governmental Organizations to International Bureaucracies -- 2.2.1 The Theory and Practice of Bureaucracy -- 2.2.2 Transferring the Bureaucracy Concept to the International Level -- 2.3 The Autonomy of International Bureaucracies -- 2.3.1 Conceptualizing Bureaucratic Autonomy -- 2.3.2 Basic Indicators of Bureaucratic Autonomy -- 2.4 From Bureaucratic Effectiveness to the Performance of Bureaucratic Functions -- 2.4.1 Problems of Studying Bureaucratic Effectiveness -- 2.4.2 The Performance of Bureaucratic Functions as Alternative Indicator -- 2.5 International Relations Theory and Three Functions of International Bureaucracies -- 2.5.1 International Bureaucracies as Entrepreneurs -- 2.5.2 International Bureaucracies as Managers -- 2.5.3 International Bureaucracies as Think-Tanks -- 2.6 Conditions of Bureaucratic Autonomy and Functions: Preliminary Assumptions -- 2.7 Chapter Conclusion -- 3 Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and International Cooperation: Surveying an Ambivalent Field -- 3.1 Terrorism: Construction and Contention -- 3.2 Counterterrorism: Prevention and Coercion -- 3.3 Counterterrorism Cooperation: Functional Governance and Political Contestation -- 3.4 Chapter Conclusion.

Over the last two decades, the process of European integration has become interwoven with the theme of citizenship and the debate on the democratic quality of the EU and of its institutions has become more salient. What are the views about Europe which emerge when we interrogate the national elites of the four large South European countries, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and what is their vision of a supra-national citizenship in its different facets? Are these views sufficiently homogeneous and do they distinguish themselves from

"This article first describes the European Union's idea of gender equality and its im-plementation into European policies. The second section analyses the extent to which citizens of different European countries support the idea of gender equality. The em-pirical basis for our analysis is the "Eurobarometer 63.1" from 2005. The descriptive findings show that while a majority of European citizens support the idea of gender equality, there are substantial differences between individual countries. In the third section we explain these differences by referring to the country's level of moderniza-tion and degree of politically institutionalised gender equality, as well as the respon-dents' religious orientation and level of education, among other factors." [author's abstract]

The article provides a comparative analysis of the legislation on food safety in the European Union (EU) and in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEC). Participation of national producers in global trade is limited by the different national requirements and regulations relevant to the exports and imports of food products. A new technical regulation system is being developed within the framework of the EAEC, with the aim of regulatory harmonization with international requirements. In this respect, a comparison of the requirements of EU food legislation and the EAEC to food safety is of particular interest. Within EAEC the work has been actually completed with the participation of Kazakhstan on unification of technical regulation system particularly in the food industry with other countries of the Russian Federation and Belarus. ; peer-reviewed

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