Le Patrimoine constitutionnel européen

Le Patrimoine constitutionnel européen
Author: Faculté de droit et des sciences économiques de Montpellier
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789287135162

Law in Greater Europe

Law in Greater Europe
Author: Bruno Haller
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 900448244X

This collection of studies intends to honour Heinrich Klebes, who both as a distinguished international civil servant and as a scholar and analyst has made and continues to make an important contribution to the development of European cooperation in general and within the Council of Europe in particular. At the same time, it offers a unique and stimulating analysis of the development of a common body of law in the wider Europe. The twenty-nine articles contained in this volume are grouped together under five headings: - commitment to democratic standards; - protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms; - the Council of Europe in context; - the common legal space; - common problems of democracy and transatlantic relations.

Constitutional Implications of Accession to the European Union

Constitutional Implications of Accession to the European Union
Author: European Commission for Democracy through Law
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789287150424

EU enlargement and the accession of the candidate states will involve major constitutional changes. This publication contains the reports presented at a seminar organised by the European Commission for Democracy through Law, held in November 2001. It examines the constitutional challenges which the candidate states face and the EU's approach to them; and also includes a study of Turkey's relationship with the EU and the implications for Turkish constitutional law.

Comparative Executive Power in Europe

Comparative Executive Power in Europe
Author: Marcel Morabito
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000898989

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary assessment of the accountability of executive power in different European States and at the European Union level. From a legal perspective, it wonders to what extent the forms of responsibility and accountability of executive power have evolved in terms of legal technique or framework. From a historical perspective, it looks at the evolution of responsibility paradigms. From a political science perspective, it examines responsibility and the expectations of European democracies in terms of authority and efficiency. The volume also has a quantitative aspect identifying, gathering and analysing statistical material on responsibility and accountability in current political regimes. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and policy-makers in constitutional law and politics, public law, comparative law, comparative politics, legal history and government.

Annuaire Europeen 2000/European Yearbook 2000

Annuaire Europeen 2000/European Yearbook 2000
Author: Francis Rosensteil
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 1154
Release: 2001-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789041118448

The year 2000's most significant international event was, almost certainly, neither political nor military, but scientific - the announcement, in June, that the human genome had been almost totally decoded. Future generations may well see this as a major turning point, opening the way to radical changes in diagnosis, prognosis, and medical treatment. Often compared with the space programme, this vast enterprise still generates misgivings: this new power, which human beings now have, to modify the genetic heritage of living creatures raises fundamentally new ethical questions - and society as a whole will have to find the answers. In fact, the accelerating pace of scientific and technical progress seems to be reviving atavistic anxieties, some rational, others less so. Recent public-health crises, including the mad cow disease' scare, which lasted into 2000, have fuelled these fears. The public's rejection of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) - verging on a crusade in some countries - tells its own story. As regards conflict, 2000 saw the Middle East peace process grind to a halt, and the Intifada resume. In Europe, the situation in Kosovo and Chechnya, both the scenes of fighting in 1999, stayed precarious. Peace and democracy did score some successes, however, particularly in Europe: the centre-left's victory in Croatia, sweeping former President Tudjman's party off the scene, the democratic party's triumph in Bosnia, and the fall of the Milosevic regime in Serbia.

Les élections européennes 40 ans après – The European Elections, 40 years later

Les élections européennes 40 ans après – The European Elections, 40 years later
Author: Tony Marguery
Publisher: Bruylant
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 2802768352

En 2019, 40 ans après la première élection des membres du Parlement européen au suffrage universel direct en 1979, les citoyens de l’Union étaient une neuvième fois appelés aux urnes. Entre ces deux dates, le Parlement européen a profondément changé, passant d’une simple assemblée consultative au colégislateur de droit commun d’une Union européenne en proie à de nombreuses crises. Les contributions au présent ouvrage, tirées des travaux d’un colloque international qui s’est tenu à l’Université de Bordeaux les 9 et 10 mai 2019, entendent dresser le bilan, les enjeux et les perspectives, tant des élections européennes de 2019 que de la démocratie représentative européenne de façon globale. In 2019, 40 years after the first election of members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage in 1979, the citizens of the Union were called to the polls for the ninth time. Between these two dates, the European Parliament changed dramatically, from a mere consultative assembly to the ordinary co-legislator of a European Union plagued by many crises. This book draws on an international conference held at the University of Bordeaux on May 9 and 10, 2019. The various contributions therein intend to take stock, examine the challenges and envisage the prospects, not only of the 2019 European elections but also of representative European democracy in general.

Democracy, Rule of Law and Foreign Policy

Democracy, Rule of Law and Foreign Policy
Author: Council of Europe
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789287151384

This publication contains the reports presented at the UniDem Seminar in Skopje. Foreign policy unquestionably serves the national interest in the broadest sense but nowadays it is no longer left entirely to discretion of governments. The legal foundation of foreign policy are made up both of rules of international law and rules of domestic law, whilst remaining an under-regulated area of democracy and of the law. The seminar in Skopje was an initiative which permitted an exchange of views on this subject between representatives of different countries.

EU Values Before the Court of Justice

EU Values Before the Court of Justice
Author: Luke Dimitrios Spieker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2023-06-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198876734

The European Union's values - enshrined in Article 2 TEU - have come under severe pressure in several Member States. In response, the Court of Justice has set a spectacular development in motion. With its ruling in Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses it activated the Union's common values and positioned Article 2 TEU at the very heart of its jurisprudence. Turning Article 2 TEU into an operational, judicially applicable provision, the Court has begun to assess the Member States' constitutional structures against these yardsticks. Since then, the jurisprudence has evolved with remarkable speed. EU Values Before the Court of Justice provides a first comprehensive study of the judicial mobilisation of Article 2 TEU. It starts by developing the foundations of this emerging jurisprudence in empirical, doctrinal, and theoretical terms. In this book, Spieker seeks to advance a new understanding of Article 2. He argues that the provision should be understood as having a dual character that resonates between two dimensions, namely an EU dimension limited to the EU legal order and a 'Verbund' dimension that extends to the common whole of the Union and its Member States. Article 2 plays different roles in these two spheres - as thick constitutional core of the EU legal order and as thin constitutional frame for the 'Verbund'. This dual character should guide the provision's future judicial development. The book sets out to explore the multifaceted potential of Article 2 TEU in each of these two dimensions. As such, it goes far beyond the current focus on illiberal developments in Member States and strives to broaden our horizon for the judicial mobilisation of EU values. The book closes by assessing the risks of placing an activated Article 2 into the hands of Luxembourg judges and proposes ways to recalibrate the jurisprudence.

Protection Des Minorités Nationales Par Leur Etat-parent

Protection Des Minorités Nationales Par Leur Etat-parent
Author: European Commission for Democracy through Law
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789287150820

This report contains a number of papers which examine the national laws of European countries regarding the treatment and protection of people belonging to national minorities who live in states outside the borders of their country of origin. This study was undertaken in order to establish whether such laws are compatible with the principles of international law and Council of Europe standards, following the adoption by Hungary in 2001 of an Act which provides benefits and assistance to those of Hungarian origin or identity who live in neighbouring countries.