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The article provides an overview of the Catalan law at the European context. How the Catalan institutions can tackle on the Spanish Government policies and decisions in front of the European Union. And how the European Union Law and policies are implemented in a decentralized country such Spain where Autonomous Communities have their own Governments and Parliaments. There is also examined how this Spanish territorial decentralized structure affects the implementation of such EU norms and its control. Finally, there is exposed how Catalan institutions manage to participate in front of the European Union institutions. Which are the instruments that can guarantee this participation and which are the EU responses to them.

THE GULF WAR AND THE POLITICAL UPHEAVALS IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION BLOC HAVE LED TO A COMPLETE POLITICAL REVOLUTION IN STRATEGIC THINKING AND IN THE EUROPEAN SECURITY INSTITUTIONS. THE PROSPECT OF A EUROPEAN UNION ENCOMPASSING BOTH SECURITY AND DEFENSE POLICIES HAS BEEN ENHANCED BY THESE EVENTS AND HAS GAINED CREDENCE WITHIN THE NEW STRATEGIC CONTEXT. THE AUTHOR CONFRONTS THE ISSUE OF A COMMON SECURITY AND DEFENSE POLICY FOR THE TWELVE FOLLOWING THE MINSK AGREEMENT AND THE MAASTRICHT TREATY, AND EXAMINES HOW RELATIONSHIPS MAY BE DEVELOPED BETWEEN A EUROPEAN UNION, NATO AND THE CSCE.

The heterogeneity of economic performances in the EU member states is one of the main reasons for the existence of a "core-periphery" relationship. The goal of this research is to examine various economic indicators to reveal possible divisions between the EU members. This issue emphasized the contribution of rich "core" countries to the imbalances in poorer "peripheral" EU members. By applying cluster methodology and considering the most recent data, two groups of countries were identified, the first comprising 11 countries that form the "centre" or the "core", and the rest of the EU forming the "periphery". Considering differences between these countries is necessary and justified for discussions about the future development of the EU that will involve differences between member states.

The heterogeneity of economic performances in the EU member states is one of the main reasons for the existence of a "core-periphery" relationship. The goal of this research is to examine various economic indicators to reveal possible divisions between the EU members. This issue emphasized the contribution of rich "core" countries to the imbalances in poorer "peripheral" EU members. By applying cluster methodology and considering the most recent data, two groups of countries were identified, the first comprising 11 countries that form the "centre" or the "core", and the rest of the EU forming the "periphery". Considering differences between these countries is necessary and justified for discussions about the future development of the EU that will involve differences between member states.

The primary objective of this study was to establish what factors currently influence trade unions as organisations in South Africa and the European Union and then to compare these factors. To conduct this study a pure literature examination was done. Firstly the levels of trade unionism were established and thereafter the factors contributing to the levels of trade unionism were identified. The difference between a developing country and already developed countries was explained before comparisons were made between South Africa and the European Union. Common factors that influence trade unions as organisations in both the European Union and South Africa include unemployment levels and job insecurity, changes in the employment relationship, work relationships outside the traditional employment relationship and finally the reasons why people join trade unions. Lastly, an interesting finding that emerged was that certain factors influencing trade unions as organisations are unique to specific countries.

Walking the Highwire tells the story of the Eurozone Crisis from the perspective of the former Vice-President of the European Commission who was responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs in 2010-2014. It is a comprehensive European account that covers both events and decisions in Brussels and Frankfurt and in the member states, both in distressed countries and creditor states. It also provides an economic-political analysis of the crisis and its management, recognising that the Euro was created politically, and saved politically. Thoroughly researched and based on economic analysis of the time, reports on various meetings and the author's own speaking notes and diary, this book begins with a narrative of crisis management 2009-2012, before moving on to address the beginning of the recovery from 2013-2014. It concludes with the lessons learnt from the crisis and a programme for reform of the Eurozone in the 2020s, with contemporary policy relevance. This is an entertaining and engaging account which will be of interest to a wide audience: scholars and students, practitioners and commentators of the Eurozone.

In Europe, the slowdown in working-age population growth and population aging pose challenges, particularly vis-à-vis the current and future volume of labor supply. Throughout the 2010s, these demographic transformations took place against a backdrop of increasing migration flows and stocks. This IMR Research Note aims to enrich the discussion of the aforementioned issues and to provide methodological and empirical evidence on the role of migration stocks in shaping changes over time in two main aspects of the European labor supply: the size of the labor force and aggregate labor force participation rates from 2006 to 2018. Based on annual LFS data, we use a mixed standardization and decomposition method to determine to what extent trends in the European labor supply are driven over time by changes in population or in labor force participation rates within specific groups selected on the basis of age, gender, birth country (native- versus foreign-born), and origin country (European Union versus non-European Union). Our Research Note points out that, despite the upward trend in the labor force participation rates of native-born women and of native-born persons aged 55 years and over, the increase in labor supply in the European Union and in the 10 European countries under study in this article between 2006 and 2018 was driven by foreign-born persons. These developments suggest that, in a context of political desire for less migration, international migration has become a structural feature of European labor markets.

Cover -- Introduction -- Trading Data in the Digital Economy: Legal Concepts and Tools -- Starting Points and Challenges -- Big Data and the EU Database Directive 96/9/EC: Current Law and Potential for Reform -- Trading Data in the Digital Economy: Trade Secrets Perspective -- Exclusivity Rights -- Data Property in the System of Intellectual Property Law: Welcome Guest or Misfit? -- Property Rights Regarding Data? -- Rights on Data: The EU Communication 'Building a European Data Economy' from an Economic Perspective -- Compulsory Licence -- Improvement of Data Economy through Compulsory Licences? -- Access to Data: The Role of Consent and the Licensing Scheme -- Data Interfaces and Data Formats as Obstacles to the Exchange and Portability of Data: Is there a Need for (Statutory) Compulsory Licences? -- Contractual Concepts -- On the Future EU Legal Framework for the Digital Economy: A Competition-based Response to the 'Ownership and Access' Debate -- Contracts with Big Data: The End of the Traditional Contract Concept? -- Fishing for an Agreement: Data Access and the Notion of Contract -- Panel Discussion -- Learning from Past Mistakes: Similarities in the European Commission's Justifications of the Sui Generis Database Right and the Data Producers' Right -- Trading in Data: A Policy Perspective -- Trading in Data: An Industry Perspective -- Of Elephants in the Room and Paper Tigers: How to Reconcile Data Protection and the Data Economy -- Contributors

The COVID-19 virus was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan (China), and as early as January 2020, the World Health Organization expressed its concern and shortly afterwards officially declared a pandemic globally. This pandemic has brought the world economy, way of life, culture and migration to a state we have never encountered before. All countries within the European Union have at one time greatly restricted or banned entry and exit from their borders. Population movements and migration, like the economy, are most affected by this pandemic. Before the pandemic, the countries of the European Union had cultivated freedom of movement within their member states, but they were suddenly forced to impose severe restrictions and controls on their borders that prevented daily migrations of the population. The measures adopted varied from country to country, depending on the assessment of experts within them and on the number of those infected and the current epidemiological situation. Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, migrations, European Union, Corona virus.

This last decade has been particularly turbulent for the EU. Beset by crises - the financial crisis, the rule of law crisis, the migration crisis, Brexit, and the pandemic - European Law has had to adapt and change in a way not previously seen. First published in 1999, the goal then was to reflect on the important developments that had been made since the creation of the EEC. That goal has not changed. From EU Administrative Law through to the Regulation of Network Industries, each chapter in this seminal work assess the legal and political forces that have shaped the evolution of EU law. With new chapters covering the Rule of Law, Judicial Reform, Brexit, Constitutional and Legal Theory, Refugee and Asylum law, and Data Governance, this third edition is a must read for any student or academic of EU law.

The countries of central Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, suffer from environmental and occupational health problems created during the political system in place until the late 1980s. This situation is reflected by data on workplace exposure to hazardous agents. Such data have been systematically collected in Skovakia and the Czech Republic since 1977. The data presented describe mainly the situation in the early 1990s. The number of workers exposed to risk factors at the workplace represent about 10% of the working population in Slovakia and 30% in Poland. In Slovakia in 1992 the percentage of persons exposed to chemical substances was 16.4%, to ionizing radiation 4.3%, and to carcinogens 3.3% of all workers exposed to risk factors. The total number of persons exposed to substances proven to be carcinogens in Poland was 1.3% of the employees; 2.2% were exposed to the suspected carcinogens. The incidence of all certified occupational diseases in the Slovak Republic was 53 per 100,000 insured employees in 1992. Cancers certified as occupational cancers are skin cancer caused by occupational exposure to carcinogens, lung cancer caused by ionizing radiation, and asbestosis together with lung cancer. Specific information on occupational cancers from Romania and Bulgaria was not available for this paper. It is difficult to predict a trend for future incidences of occupational cancer. Improved control technology, governmental regulatory activity to reduce exposure, surveillance of diseases and risk factors, and vigilant use of preventive measures should, however, ultimately reduce occupational cancer.

This paper proposes a stochastic volatility model to measure sovereign financial distress. It examines howkey European sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads affect each other; specifically, the paperanalyses the volatility structure of Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The stability ofGermany is a close proxy for the resilience of the euro area as markets use Germany's sovereign CDS as ahedge for systemic risk. Although most of the CDS changes for Germany during 2009?12 were due toidiosyncratic factors, market developments in Italy and Spain contributed significantly

We explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. As well as describing redistributive effects in aggregate, we assess and compare the effectiveness of eight individual types of policy in reducing income disparities. We derive results for the 27 members of the EU using policies in effect in 2010 and present them for each country separately as well as for the EU as a whole.