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This collection sets a new agenda for conducting research on the EU and learns from past mistakes. In doing so it provides a state-of-the-art examination of social science research designs in EU studies while providing innovative guidelines for the advancement of more inclusive and empirically sensitive research designs in EU studies

On June 29, 2015 the European Union and the People's Republic of China held their 17th annual leader's summit in Brussels. The summit also commemorated the 40th anniversary of the establishment of formal relations between what is now the EU and China. This report contains information on the background, political dimension, economic dimension, and more related to this summit.

The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their redistributive effects using EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. As well as describing redistributive effects in aggregate this allows us to assess and compare the effectiveness of individual types of policy in reducing income disparities. We consider the following categories of benefits and taxes: income taxes, tax allowances, tax credits, social contributions, cash benefits designed to target the poor or redistribute inter-personally (through means-testing) as well as cash benefits intended to redistribute intra-personally across the lifecycle (through social insurance or contingency-based entitlement). We derive results for the 27 members of the European Union using policies in effect in 2010 and present them for each country separately as well as for the EU as a whole.

People have the right to manifest their religion or belief. They also have the right not to be discriminated against because of their religion or belief. In addition, most people need employment to provide in their livelihood. It was already known that freedom of religion can be restricted in the employment in the public sector. The public sector (i.e. the government) needs to be able to project neutrality also through its employees. However, the Court of Justice of the European Union expanded this possibility of rights restriction to the private sector. This decision has the potential to harm the chances of obtaining employment of certain minorities in Europe.

This book reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions - not being discussed openly - limit, rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied. Situated as it is at the interface between European Studies and International Relations, the book also seeks to engage the attention of readers who are anxious to understand how the European Union relates to the rest of the world and to explain the efforts of the EU and its member states towards the creation of a credible, effective and principled foreign, security and defence policy.

"Luxembourg and the European Union" published on by Oxford University Press.

1. The study of EU foreign policy : between international relations and European studies /Ben Tonra, Thomas Christiansen --2. Theorizing the European Union's foreign policy /Knud Erik Jørgensen --3. International relations or European integration : is the CFSP sui generis? /Jakob C. Øhrgaard --4. Foreign policy analysis and European foreign policy /Brian Whit --5. Discourse analysis in the study of European foreign policy /Henrk Larsen --6. Role identity and the Europeanisation of foreign policy : a political-cultural approach /Lisbeth Aggestann --7. Interests, institutions and identities in the study of European foreign policy /Adrien Hyde-Price --8. Theory and practice of multi-level foreign policy : the European Union's policy in the field of arms export controls /Sibylle Bauer, Eric Remacle --9. Justifying EU foreign policy : the logics underpinning EU enlargement /Helen Sjursen, Karen E. Smith.

"Poland and the European Union" published on by Oxford University Press.