Suchergebnisse

Die Monopolkommission stellt in ihrem zehnten Sondergutachten zum Postwesen mit dem Titel "Post 2017: Privilegien abbauen, Regulierung effektiv gestalten!" kaum Fortschritte bei der Wettbewerbsentwicklung auf den Postmärkten wegen des Fortbestehens uneinheitlicher Wettbewerbsbedingungen fest. Die Monopolkommission unterbreitet Vorschläge zum Abbau der Privilegien der Deutschen Post AG und für eine effektive Regulierung der Postmärkte.Die Monopolkommission beschäftigt sich eingehend mit den exklusiven Privilegien der Deutschen Post AG wie z. B. die Mehrwertsteuerbefreiung von Universaldienstleistungen, die Anteilseignerschaft des Bundes, die Mitgliedschaft in der International Post Corporation sowie die Benennung als designierter Universaldienstleister gegenüber dem Weltpostverein. Darüber hinaus evaluiert die Monopolkommission ausführlich den nationalen Regulierungsrahmen und den Entwurf einer Verordnung über grenzüberschreitende Paketzustelldienste der Europäischen Kommission.

How did the transition from a world of empire to a global international system organised around the sovereign state play out? This article traces the transition over the past two centuries through an examination of membership debates in two prominent intergovernmental organisations (IGOs). IGOs are sites of contestation that play a role in the constitution of the international system. Discussions within IGOs reflect and shape broader international norms, and are one mechanism through which the international system determines questions of membership and attendant rights and obligations. The article reveals that IGO membership policies during this period reflected different compromises between the three competing principles of great power privilege, the 'standard of civilisation', and universal sovereign equality. The article contributes to Global IR as it confirms that non-Western agency was crucial in bringing about this transition. States in Africa, Asia, and Latin America championed the adoption of the sovereignty criterion. In this, paradoxically, one of the core constitutional norms of the 'European' international system – the principle of sovereign equality – was realised at the hands of non-European actors.

This publication has been prepared by the UN system organizations and related international entities as input to the second UN General Assembly High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development on 3 and 4 October 2013. The individual chapters illustrate the work undertaken by the various contributors in support of migrants, their families, and societies touched by migration. The agency chapters draw the attention of policymakers and practitioners to tools, guides and good practices in the area of international migration and development. The book also offers some unique insights into the growing coherence of action among these key international players in the migration field. The collaboration among the agencies represented in this book reflects ongoing efforts to advance global understanding and inter-agency cooperation on migration. The book thus helps to fill a gap in knowledge about the "international system" around migration. This is a publication of the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, coordinated by UNFPA and IOM, in collaboration with the Global Migration Group and other members of the Chief Executives Board, as well as the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants and the NGO Committee on Migration. The book includes a preface by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.