The Regulation of Electronic Communications in the European Union: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges
Author/editor: Marialuisa Costa
Year published: 2012
Over the past two decades the regulation of electronic communications in the European Union has undergone significant development. These changes have been motivated by…
Quick Link: 2012-2_Costa-Regulation-of-Electronic-Communications.pdf(817.65 KB)
Towards the 9th ASEM Summit in Laos in 2012: Asia-Europe Relations in the 21st Century
Author/editor: Thomas Roe
Year published: 2012
This paper discusses the origins, purpose and functioning of the Asia-Europe Meetings (ASEM) that have been convened since 1996 between Asian and European countries. It…
Quick Link: 2012-3_Roe_Towards-the-9th-ASEM-Summit.pdf(750.9 KB)
Balancing exclusion, prosecution and non-refoulement: the application of article 1F of the Refugees Convention in The Netherlands
Author/editor: Deciana Speckmann
Year published: 2011
As the “legal capital of the world” and host of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Dutch government has consistently advocated that crimes under international…
Quick Link: 2011-1_BPS-exclusion-in-the-Netherlands-Speckmann.pdf(985.01 KB)
European Sustainable Construction Regulation: Homogeneity and Attention
Author/editor: Jeroen van der Heijden|Ellen van Bueren
Year published: 2011
Understanding the negative impact of the construction industry and the built environment on the ecological environment, the European Commission (EC) aims to harmonise…
Quick Link: 2011-4_sustainable-construction-Heijden-Bueren.pdf(1.18 MB)
How Likely Is It That The European Union Will Disintegrate? A Critical Analysis of Competing Theoretical Perspectives
Author/editor: Douglas Webber
Year published: 2011
This article turns existing theories of European integration on their head, exploring the conditions under which they would predict the European Union to disintegrate…
Quick Link: 2011-3_Disintegration-of-the-EU-Webber.pdf(1.21 MB)
Hungary’s 2011 Constitution: Key Features and Political Background
Author/editor: Krisztina Osvát|Szabolcs Osvát
Year published: 2011
This paper provides a brief analysis of Hungary’s new 2011 Constitution. It highlights the most important and most widely debated provisions and focuses particularly on…
Quick Link: 2011-2_Hungarian-Constitution-Osvat-and-Osvat.pdf(1.14 MB)
EU Analogical Identity - Or the Ties that Link (Without Binding)
Author/editor: Pablo Jiménez
Year published: 2010
From the political point of view, European Union (EU) integration implies some kind of unity in the community constituted by EU citizens. Unity is difficult to attain…
Quick Link: 2010-2_Jim%25C3%25A9nez-EU-Analogical-Identity.pdf(1.15 MB)
Ukraine: A Sharp Turn Eastwards
Author/editor: John Besmeres
Year published: 2010
Ukraine: A Sharp Turn Eastwards examines the growing closeness between Ukraine and Russia since the narrow victory of the pro-Moscow candidate Viktor Yanukovych in the…
Quick Link: 2010-1_A-Sharp-Turn-Eastwards-Besemeres.pdf(557.09 KB)
Harmonisation and Regional Cooperation in Cross-Border Policing: Comparing European and Australian Frameworks
Author/editor: Saskia Hufnagel
Year published: 2009
Quick Link: 2009-2_Hufnagel_Harmonisation-and-Regional-Cooperation-in-Cross-Border-Policing.pdf(226.25 KB)
The Human Rights Act 1998
Author/editor: Eliza Kaczynska-Nay
Year published: 2009
The aim of this paper is to evaluate briefly the impact of the Human Rights Act (HRA) – sometimes understood as the United Kingdom’s Bill of Rights (Klug 2007) - on the…
Quick Link: 2009-1_Nay_Human-Rights-Act-1998.pdf(244.61 KB)