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Defence date: 25 March 2002 ; Examining Board: Prof. Silvana Sciarra, European University Institute (supervisor); Prof. Bruno De Witte, European University Institute; Prof. Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky, Central European University, Budapest; Prof. Manfred Weiss, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt ; First made available online on 11 April 2018 ; The conceptualisation of the social dimension of the European Community, and Union, has proven to be a complex challenge. Beyond the central elements such as free movement of workers, equal treatment, workplace health and safety, the boundaries are uncertain. The situation is further complicated by the fact that though most issues of labour law and social policy primarily fall within the responsibility of the Member States, there has always been a common vision of a European social model based on mutually accepted values and principles. Having this vision in mind, distilled from the rhetoric of the Treaties and from political commitments, the research was based on a learning process. This process opened up a critical approach towards the initial assumption which described European integration around a social model per se founded on solidarity and welfare. By juxtaposing various opinions and explanations, both from the side of Community institutions and scholars, a more articulated view was acquired on the value choices and reasons which fundamentally influenced the development o f Community labour law and social policies. The most appropriate method seemed to be the historical reconstruction of the evolution of those institutions, processes and motivations which form the core elements of the European social dimension. A project to analyse the whole area would have been too ambitious: the research focuses on those aspects which then led to the new Title on employment in the Amsterdam Treaty. This method might be considered as a descriptive one, but it proved to be a useful way to understand and to make visible how Community reasoning and value choices have changed and new issues have emerged throughout the Community's history.

Most studies of public opinion towards the European Union focus on attitudes regarding the past and present of the European Union. This study fills a gap by addressing attitudes towards the European Union's future. We expand on a recently developed approach measuring preferences for eight concrete future European Union scenarios that represent the ongoing political and public debate, employing original survey data collected in 2019 in 10 European Union countries. We assess cross-national differences in the distribution of future European Union preferences, as well as in citizens' motivations to prefer different variants of Europe in the future. The findings show citizens' fine-grained future European Union preferences, which are meaningfully related to common explanations of European Union support. We also find cross-national differences linked to countries' structural position within the European Union.

Introduction -- Constitutional mo(u)rning -- Retelling the legal integration story -- Forgetting law -- Adjudicating non-authoritative law -- Constitutionalising the institutional balance of powers -- The principled judicial mechanics of constitutional morphogenesis -- Constitutionalism beyond constitutions

EU policymaking : issues and debates / Laurie Buonanno and Nikolaos Zahariadis -- Principal-agent models / Yannis Karagiannis and Mattia Guidi -- Regulatory governance in the EU / Alessandro Cagossi -- Multiple streams / Nicole Herwig and Nikolaos Zahariadis -- Punctuated equilibrium theory / Christian Breunig, Daniela Beyer, and Marco Radojevic -- The internal market / Laurie Buonanno -- EU competition rules and the European integration project / Angela Wigge and Hubert Buch-Hansen -- Changing governance of cohesion policy / Carolyn Dudek -- Social policy / Claire Dupuy and Sophie Jacquot -- Gender policy / Sophie Jacquot -- Economic and monetary union / Waltraud Shelke -- Banking policy / Stefaan DeRynck -- The globalization trilemma and the EMU's second-order democratic deficit / Nikitas Konstantinidis and Ruben Treurniet -- The EU budget / Gabriele Cipriani -- European immigration and asylum policy / Alexander Caviedes -- Police and judicial cooperation policy / Stephen Rozee, Christian Kaunert and Sarah Leonard -- European Union privacy and data protection policy / George Christou -- The common foreign and security policy / Sara Kahn-Nisser -- Trade policy / Holly Jarman -- Enlargement policy / Neill Nugent -- The European neighbourhood policy / Mariam Dekanozishvili -- The cap : common dynamics of policy change in an uncommon policy domain / Gerry Alons and Pieter Zwaan -- European energy policy / Nicole Herwig -- EU policy on the environment / Jale Tosun -- Lobbying and interest group politics in the European Union / Andreas Hofmann -- Agenda setting in the European Union / Petya Alexandrova and Marcello Carammia -- Understanding the EU's policymaking institutions / John McCormick -- Strategic framing and the European Commission / Mark Rhinard -- Implementation and enforcement of EU polices / Gerda Falkner -- If evaluation is the solution, what is the problem? / Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli -- Resisting in times of crisis : the implementation of European austerity plans in Ireland and Greece / Clement Fontan, Sabine Saurugger and Nikolaos Zahariadis -- Resistance in European Union health care policy / Scott L. Greer -- Evasion as a mechanism of resistance (not only) to European law / Annette Elisabeth Toller -- European level policy dynamics in higher education / Martina Vukasovic -- The infusion of Europe in public policy : the case of higher education / Pauline Ravinet

The Authority of EU Law -- Foreword by Pavel Telička -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: The authority of European law -- The authority of European law: Do we still believe in it? -- 1 The concept of "authority" -- 2 Reasons for the current stress on the authority of EU law -- 3 Material welfare and the authority of EU law -- 4 Values and the authority of EU law -- 5 Two ostensibly conflicting sets of values -- 6 Democracy, human rights and the rule of law: An inextricable triad -- 7 Active citizenship, clientelism and the sense of rights and duties -- 8 Diversity as European strength -- 9 No demos, no democratic accountability, no democratic representation: the democratic deficit -- 10 The role of the court -- 10.1 The selection of judges -- 10.2 The style of decisions -- 10.3 The composition of the court -- 10.4 The docket -- Reference -- The Court of Justice of the European Union as the guardian of the authority of EU law: A networking exercise -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The dialogue between the Court of Justice and the national courts of the Member States -- 3 The dialogue between the national courts of the Member States -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: The impact of legislation on the authority of EU law -- A view from the European Commission -- 1 Lobbyists, delegated and implementing acts, and subsidiarity -- 2 Quality of legislation -- Can the authority of EU law be taken for granted? A tale of principles and realities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Can the law-making affect the authority of EU law? -- 2.1 Democratic legitimacy -- 2.2 Transparency -- 2.3 Subsidiarity -- 2.4 Comitology, lobbying and the quality of legislation -- 3 What is most likely to affect the authority of EU law? -- 3.1 Searching for the authority of EU law -- 3.2 Need of support for the European project -- 3.3 Need of compliance with the European project.