Executive council Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session 07 - 08 February 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; The Heads of State and Government in 2016 adopted African Space Policy and Strategy through Assembly/AU/Dec.589(XXVI) Decision and requested the Commission to carry out consultations with a view to evaluating the legal, structural and financial implications for the creation of a continental African Space Agency. This was followed by the adoption, in January 2018 through Assembly/AU/Dec.676(XXX), the Statute of African Space Agency.
Executive council Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session 07 - 08 February 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; The Heads of State and Government in 2016 adopted African Space Policy and Strategy through Assembly/AU/Dec.589(XXVI) Decision and requested the Commission to carry out consultations with a view to evaluating the legal, structural and financial implications for the creation of a continental African Space Agency. This was followed by the adoption, in January 2018 through Assembly/AU/Dec.676(XXX), the Statute of African Space Agency.
Este libro muestra aportaciones obtenidas en el Encuentro Europeo de Jóvenes Investigadores, organizado en abril del 2005 en la Universidad de Alicante, en el cual se reunió a investigadores de diferentes disciplinas y distintos paises del ámbito europeo alrededor del tema: transformaciones sociales en el actual contexto de integración y ampliación de la UE, con especial énfasis en los procesos de la identidad, socialización y migraciones. ; El presente libro ha sido posible gracias a la Ayuda de Grupos I+D+I: "Obets", Ref. GRUPOS03/209 y al proyecto I+D 2004: "Competencia intercultural e integración de los residentes extranjeros europeos en la Comunidad Valenciana. Un análisis diagnóstico y prospectivo de los estereotipos económicos, sociales y políticos y su efecto sobre la inmigración como pull factor" Ref. CV04B-621 ambos financiados por Consellería de Empresa, Universidad y Ciencia, Generalitat Valenciana.
Turkey first applied for EU membership in 1987 and started negotiations for full membership in October 2005 after lengthy and challenging negotiations between EU member states. This master's thesis attempts to examine the relationship between the negotiations for EU membership that are going on between Turkey and the EU Commission and the public discussion on the subject. The research material consists of selected posts on the Financial Times discussion forum and the Acquis communautaire and Copenhagen criteria. By comparing the research material this thesis attempts to investigate if the public deliberation and official negotiations focus on the same issues and requirements for membership. The theoretical background for this analysis is deliberative democracy, according to which public debate should be a prerequisite for agenda setting and decision making. The findings of the thesis reveal that the public discussion does touch on the acquis communautaire and Copenhagen criteria to some degree, but the public is also concerned with non-acquis issues such as the culture and history. A unique feature of the accession negotiations is also the amount of commentary from heads of state regarding the negotiations, which was also noted in the research material. In the light of deliberative democratic theory it can be noted that the public may take part in the discussion over Turkey's membership, but it has little or no chances of setting the agenda for the negotiations.
Jornades de Dret Català a Tossa (12es: 2002: Tossa de Mar, Catalunya) ; Conté les ponències i les comunicacions presentades en les XII Jornades de Dret Català, celebrades a Tossa de Mar (Girona) els dies 26 i 27 de setembre de 2002. L'objecte de les Jornades fou reflexionar sobre l'impacte de la creixent europeïtzació del dret privat sobre el dret civil català i sobre altres ordenaments del nostre entorn. Inclou aportacions en català, en castellà i en anglès d'autors com ara Luis Díez-Picazo, Encarna Roca, Hugh Beale, Antonio-Manuel Morales, Ulrich Magnus i Sixto Sánchez, entre altres. En el llibre també es recull la transcripció de les intervencions de representants de tots els estaments jurídics catalans sobre el nou Codi Civil de Catalunya
En este artículo se analizan las razones del ascenso del populismo en las elecciones europeas de 2014 desde el supuesto de que dicho ascenso tiene sus antecedentes en una previa situación de crisis del modelo de crecimiento europeo y del Estado de bienestar. Se analizan también el diferente comportamiento electoral de los principales países de la Unión Europea y la evolución del respaldo electoral de los partidos políticos mayoritarios en el Parlamento Europeo. ; In this article we analyze the reasons of the populism rise in the European elections of 2014 under the supposition that this rise took place in a previous situation of crisis of European growth's model and of the Welfare State. We also analyze the different electoral behavior of the principal European Union countries and the evolution of the electoral support to the political parties with majority in the European Parliament.
Executive Council Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session 7 – 8 February 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) was created in 1991 in response to the shortage of capacity to build indigenous human and institutional capacity to promote sustainable development in Africa. The Foundation was designed to serve as a coordinating mechanism for donor support to capacity building in Africa, through the pooling of resources and a common governance and reporting system. To date, 40 African countries have become members of ACBF. ACBF has, however, continued to avail its support to all African countries regardless of their membership status. In recognition of its effective support to African countries, ACBF was designated by African Heads of States and Government a Specialized Agency of the African Union by Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.621 (XXVIII) of the 28th Assembly in January 2017.
Assembly of the union Thirty-Second Ordinary Session 10 – 11 February 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; Africa is the origin of man, four and a half million years ago and all human beings only lived in Africa until about 100,000 years ago. The last ice-age ended 11,700 years ago. Before that People could not live in many parts of the North of our Globe. Therefore, the European Stock (Europeans, Americans, Canadians, Australians), the Asians, the Arabsetc. are all former Africans
Executive Council Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session 7 – 8 February 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; The significance of human rights and transitional justice (TJ) cannot be overemphasized. This underscores why Aspiration three (3), "An Africa of good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, justice and the rule of law",and Aspiration four (4), "A peaceful and secured Africa", of Agenda 2063 – The Africa We Want – focus on human rights promotion, silencing the guns by 2020, peace, security and development. In order to accomplish these objectives of Africa's Agenda 2063, a ten-year implementation plan was developed. The year 2015 was dedicated to Women's empowerment and 2016 to human rights, with a special focus on the rights of women
Las actuaciones de desarrollo rural llevadas a cabo en la Unión Europea han adolecido históricamente de una coherencia interna propia y se han ido incorporando al acervo comunitario como respuesta puntual a las necesidades de cada momento. La Política de Desarrollo Rural, que nace como segundo pilar de la PAC tras la aprobación de la Agenda 2000, supuso su formalización como tal pero su diseño, construido por la adicción de medidas dispersas, dista mucho de ser una política internamente construida. La nueva formulación aprobada para 2007-13 la consagra como un apéndice de la PAC, con escasos fondos, con serias incógnitas para su puesta en marcha y desarrollo aunque con una estructura y diseño más lógico y una gestión más simplificada. ; Historically any rural development initiatives undertaken by the European Union have lacked internal coherence and mostly have joined the European legal bodies on a case by case basis. The Rural Development Policy, born as a second basement to the CAP (Common Agriculturan Policy), was a formalizing effort but being designed as a set of sparce initiatives prevented it from succeeding as an internal, solid policy. Under its new definition for the 2007-13 period it becomes an appendix to the CAP, with meager funds and serious issues about its launch and rollout but with an structure and design better suited to its stated aims and a simplified organizing model.
Las estrategias productivas y comerciales de la Política Agrícola Común (PAC) de la Unión Europea (UE) se relacionan de forma dialéctica con el progresivo deterioro de la soberanía alimentaria de América Latina. Por medio de la PAC, la UE ha impulsado y apoyado un sistema agroalimentario insostenible que causa graves impactos económicos, sociales y ambientales en los países latinoamericanos. El mantenimiento del modelo de consumo europeo basado en la carne y otras proteínas de origen animal y el alcance de la próxima reforma de la PAC encaminada a producir menos y comprar más a bajo precio en los mercados mundiales supondrá un renovado ciclo de explotación de los recursos naturales latinoamericanos, fenómeno que conllevará la sustitución aún mayor de los cultivos de consumo humano por las materias primas de exportación, el aumento de la deforestación y la destrucción de los ecosistemas, el auge del monocultivo, el desplazamiento de los pequeños campesinos, el incremento de la pobreza rural, la agudización de la desnutrición y el hambre, el crecimiento de la inseguridad alimentaria y la pérdida de la soberanía alimentaria de los pueblos. ; The productive and commercial strategies laid down by the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are dialectically related to the gradual deterioration of food sovereignty in Latin America. By means of the CAP, the EU has promoted and championed an unsustainable food and agriculture system with serious economic, social and environmental drawbacks in Latin American countries. Maintaining the European consumption pattern based on meat and other animal proteins, alongside the scope of the forthcoming CAP reform –which involves producing less and buying more at lower prices in global markets– will bring about a renovated cycle of exploitation of Latin America's natural resources, which will, in turn, lead to the replacement of even more crops for human consumption with raw materials for export, the increase of deforestation and the destruction of ecosystems, the rise of monoculture, the displacement of small farmers, the increase of rural poverty, the worsening of malnutrition and hunger, the increase of food insecurity, and the loss of food sovereignty for the people.
This work, prepared and published during the author's stay at the RSCAS, EUI, is a "compilation thesis" (in Finnish "artikkeliväitöskirja"), Department of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki, and contains the major part of the author's PhD thesis (forthcoming print monograph, 2012). ; The future is uncertain, and the financial system of the European Union has to take into account this uncertainty. This book looks at the different means it has at its disposal to do so, and analyses how these means have evolved since the creation of the general budget of the European Communities in 1968. The analysis is extended to a broader study of the development of the European Union through several case studies: negotiations on the Financial Regulation of 25 June 2002,on its first modifi cation, adopted on 13 December 2006, and on the Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound fi nancial management and on the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2007-2013. The question of the uncertainty of the future is addressed using the so-called "Theory of Budgetary Flexibility". This theory, developed originally to analyse national budgetary systems, establishes an essential distinction between External Flexibility and Internal Flexibility, on the one hand, and Annual Flexibility and Multiannual Flexibility on the other hand. It is particularly useful here as it enables us to examine under a common framework processes that are often considered separate (and treated in the literature as such), and to draw conclusions at systems' level. The book is divided into three Parts: - Part One (Chapters 1 to 3), which forms the theoretical part of this book, includes an analysis of the specificities and of the functioning of the budgetary and financial systems of the European Union, while presenting an "état des lieux" of studies carried out in these fields; - Part Two (Chapters 4 to 13) deals with changes that have been made to various forms of flexibility since 1968. Special attention is paid not only to the consequences these changes have had for the various actors involved – namely the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and Member States – but also for the financial system of the European Union as a whole; - Part Three (Chapters 14 to 18) addresses the question of how the changes examined in Part Two affect the general development of the European Union.
En aquest article fem un recorregut per les polítiques, accions i estratègies de la Unió Europea en l'àmbit de l'esport. Començant per les primeres consideracions de l'esport com un valor rellevant per a Europa i per a la construcció social i col•lectiva, subratllem la fita que va suposar la incorporació del mateix com un àmbit i competència europea als Tractats Constitucionals i, específicament, al Tractat de Lisboa. A continuació, reflectim la normativa comunitària i els plans d'acció més rellevants generats per les institucions europees en aquest àmbit, així com les iniciatives més emblemàtiques, de les quals el programa Erasmus + 2014-2020 constitueix l'element recent més significatiu. ; In this article we set out to review the policies, actions and strategies of the European Union with regard to sport, starting with the first considerations of sport as a core value for Europeand for the process of social and collective construction, and attaching due emphasis to the historic importance of its incorporation as an area of European competence in the basicConstitutional Treaties and specifically in the Treaty of Lisbon. In conclusion we consider European Union law and the most relevantaction plans generated by the European institutions in this field, as well as the most emblematic initiatives, of which the Erasmus+2014-2020 programme is the most significant recent development. ; En este artículo hacemos un recorrido por las políticas, acciones y estrategias de la Unión Europea en el ámbito del deporte. Comenzando por las primeras consideraciones del deporte como un valor relevante para Europa y para la construcción social y colectiva, subrayamos el hito que supuso la incorporación del mismo como un ámbito y competencia europea a los Tratados Constitucionales y, específicamente, al Tratado de Lisboa. A continuación, reflejamos la normativa comunitaria y los planes de acción más relevantes generados por las instituciones europeas en este ámbito, así como las iniciativas más emblemáticas, de las que el programa Erasmus + 2014-2020 constituye el elemento reciente más significativo.
El TJUE ha desarrollado una rica jurisprudencia en torno a la edad como causa de discriminación prohibida, si bien con una exclusiva proyección en el ámbito de las relaciones laborales, pues hasta ahora es el único ámbito donde el Consejo ha ejercido la competencia prevista en el art. 19 TFUE en relación con esta causa de discriminación. Tal y como se articula en la Directiva 2000/78, la edad es merecedora de un nivel intermedio de protección, sobre todo en comparación con otras discriminaciones prohibidas por el Derecho de la Unión, como el sexo o la nacionalidad. Ello se debe a la propia redacción de la Directiva 2000/78, que establece un marco general mínimo para luchar contra la discriminación por razón de edad, circunscrito al ámbito del empleo y la ocupación. No obstante, el TJUE aporta importantes precisiones respecto al alcance y la articulación de las causas de justificación de una diferencia de trato basada en la edad, tal y como se establecen en dicha Directiva, así como respecto a ciertos efectos jurídicos de la no discriminación por razón de la edad, especialmente en las relaciones entre particulares. En este sentido, el TJUE ha afirmado la aplicación supletoria e incluso independiente del principio general del Derecho que prohíbe la discriminación por razón de la edad, también en las relaciones horizontales, siempre que la situación litigiosa se englobe dentro del ámbito de aplicación del Derecho de la Unión. La jurisprudencia Mangold/Kücükdeveci confirma con certeza que la Directiva 2000/78 no ha establecido un principio general de no discriminación por razón de la edad, sino que esta norma está destinada a facilitar la aplicación concreta de este principio general del Derecho en el ámbito del empleo y la ocupación, pero sin alterar el contenido ni el alcance jurídico del mismo. Ahora bien, en el Asunto Kücükdeveci el TJUE ha revisado el fundamento de este principio general del Derecho al entender que, a partir de su positivación en el art. 21 de la Carta de los Derechos Fundamentales, es ésta la sede desde la que dicho principio despliega sus posibilidades y los límites de su eficacia. Este razonamiento ha sido utilizado por el TJUE para afirmar que otras manifestaciones específicas del principio de no discriminación, como la orientación sexual, también se benefician del estatus de principio general del Derecho de la Unión. ; The ECJ has developed a significant amount of case law on age as a prohibited ground of discrimination, this case law having been so far exclusively reflected in the labour relations field. This is the only field where the Council has exercised the competence set forth in art. 19 of TFEU on this ground of discrimination. Under Directive 2000/78, age is granted an intermediate level of legal protection, especially when compared to other prohibited grounds of discrimination under EU Law, such as sex or nationality. This results from the drafting of Directive 2000/78 itself, which establishes a minimal general framework to fight discrimination on the ground of age, one exclusive to the employment and occupation fields. However, the ECJ provides significant specifications as to the scope and wording of the pleas for unequal treatment on the ground of age, as established in the said Directive. Likewise, the ECJ, details the particular legal effects of non-discrimination on the grounds of age, especially on relations between individuals. In this sense, the ECJ confirms the supplementary, even independent, application of the legal general principle prohibiting discrimination on grounds of age to horizontal relations, provided that the dispute is framed within the EU Law scope of application. The Mangold/Kücükdeveci case law confirms that Directive 2000/78 does not establish a general principle of non-discrimination on grounds of age, but it facilitates the application of this legal General Principle of EU Law to the labour field, without altering the principle's legal content or scope. Yet, in the Kücükdeveci case, the ECJ has reviewed the basis of this General Principle of EU Law, enshrined in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, upon considering the latter the legal framework within which the principle becomes effective. This has been the reasoning provided by the ECJ so as to hold that other specific manifestations of the principle of non-discrimination, as for instance sexual orientation, are granted the status of General Principles of EU Law as well.
Executive Council Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session 7 – 8 February 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; The African Union Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC) was established in accordance with the provisions of article 22 (5) (a) of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AUCPCC). The Convention was adopted at the second ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Government of the African Union in Maputo, Mozambique, on 11th July 2003, and entered into force on 5th August 2006, thirty (30) days after the deposit of the fifteenth instrument of ratification. As at November 2018, the Convention had been signed by 49 states and ratified or acceded to by 40 States.
