The European Parliament

The European Parliament
Author: Francis Jacobs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 100030115X

This book explains the state of the art in the European Parliament. It considers the future options available to the Parliament and the kinds of reform that it is likely to seek, and examines the historical evolution of the Groups within the Parliament.

A Modern Guide to the European Parliament

A Modern Guide to the European Parliament
Author: Martin Westlake
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1994
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This text provides an accessible, critical and analytical guide to the European Parliament, placing the institution in context in the light of the Maastricht Treaty and the forthcoming European elections. The volume should be useful to students as well as those working near to the EC and its institutions, including lawyers, lobbyists and consultants.

European Communities

European Communities
Author: John Paxton
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781412822954

The establishment of the European Economic Community in 1958 was one of the most remarkable developments in the history of the post-World War II era. It aimed for nothing less than a complete economic union so that goods, people, and capital would be able to pass over national boundaries of member countries as freely as they move within any one country. As the Community's target date of 1992 for economic integration draws closer, the need for information, both current and historical, becomes more urgent. The aim of this annotated bibliography is to create a critical and descriptive list of books published mainly in English for businessmen and analysts, combining older publications with new. The literature on the EC is vast and issues The Community itself nearly 3000 publications a year. The range of material covered in this volume is distinguished by its great scope. Historical sections provide listings on the postwar years of economic recovery, the development of the EC, and biographies of the leading personalities involved. Policy-oriented sections encompass such subjects as labor, transportation, environment, energy, and education. The political ramifications of economic union, financial and fiscal affairs, relations between the EC and the Third World, and foreign relations in general are dealt with in separate sections. The volume concludes with a listing of major European Community publications. The sheer bulk of published material on the EC, much of it duplication, has made keeping up with its developments difficult for small and medium in Europe and elsewhere. This invaluable sourcebook will provide the business community and the political establishments with better access to EC information as they grapple with the implications of 1992.

European Foreign Policy and the European Parliament in the 1990s

European Foreign Policy and the European Parliament in the 1990s
Author: Donatella M. Viola
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351787675

This title was first published in 2000: This book investigates the European Parliament’s stance vis-a-vis the 1990-1991 Gulf and 1991-1992 Yugoslav crises. In unveiling the parliamentary multi-faceted view of these events, reference has been made to the positions taken by constituent political groups and their voting behaviour. In particular, the following questions have been addressed: has the European Parliament sought to define and shape a common foreign policy with respect to the above crises? What specific functions have the European Parliament political groups performed? Have political groups succeeded in achieving an internal cohesion? Has the European Parliament overcome divisions among its members through the formation of party coalitions? despite the considerable flow of published material on external relations of the European Union and the European Parliament, virtually no study has explored in-depth the links between these two areas. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap in the existing literature, breaking new ground by combining a qualitative and qualitative analysis of parliamentary behaviour with foreign policy.

The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation

The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation
Author: M. de Jong
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9401100012

Inevitably, at a panel discussion not too long ago comparing planning cultures the discussion turned on the issue of globalisation. As a member of the panel, this author asked those in the audience who lived and/or worked in a country different from their country of origin to raise their hands. About half of the audience of well over one hundred academic teachers and researchers from all comers of the world, the present author included did so. Next he asked who had a spouse or partner from a country different from their country of origin to also raise their hands. About half of the audience, the present author included, raised their hands. This is the soft side of globalisation. The soft side of globalisation is important. Exchanges, personal mobility, international romances, multi-culturalism and multi-lingualism (inevitably meaning non-native speakers struggling to keep up with native English speakers) are part of the academic scene, so much so that we can hardly imagine it to be otherwise. These are not entirely new phenomena, but they have become ever more prominent, relying on an ever more elaborate institutional infrastructure of exchange programmes, international journals, associations and the global conference industry. It was at the AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) congress at Bmo in the Czech Republic in July 2000 that the plan for this book was hatched.

The European Parliament's Role in Closer EU Integration

The European Parliament's Role in Closer EU Integration
Author: R. Corbett
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403920001

Nearly 20 years after it first became an elected institution, it is time to assess the impact of the European Parliament on the process of European integration. This book does so, beginning with an analysis of what integration theorists expected of the directly elected Parliament when such an idea was still on the drawing board and then examining what the Parliament has achieved in practice. It concludes that the Parliament has been extremely significant, though not always in the ways initially expected.