Europe after enlargement

Where is Europe going? In this collection, several prominent European economists offer essays on the five big challenges to the development of the European Union (EU). Namely, the new European Constitution, European finances and the Euro, the need to boost economic growth, competition in both ...

La politique agricole commune

La politique agricole commune (Pac), qui fut au c#ur de la construction européenne, divise aujourd'hui les Etats membres. On lui reproche son coût et la répartition inégalitaire de ses bénéfices. On l'accuse de nuire aux pays en développement, voire d'être responsable ...

La politique régionale européenne

vers une remise en cause de l'objectif de convergence

La politique régionale européenne vise à satisfaire les objectifs de cohésion économique, sociale et territoriale énoncés dans les Traités communautaires. La convergence économique des régions constitue un élément déterminant. Plusieurs obstacles -telle la hausse des inégalités de richesse entre les Etats membres- et critiques -sur ...

Access to social Europe

'Access to Social Europe - 5th Edition' presents the many facets of a wide-ranging policy that has repercussions on the everyday life of all European Union (EU) citizens. The 5th edition has been revised and updated, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the major political and ...

Governance and civil society in the European Union. Vol. 2

Exploring policy issues

This volume focuses on the role of organised civil society in European public policies. The contributions discuss the role of public-pressure groups and their relations with organised business and institutional actors. They consider the role of interest groups towards providing the EU policy process with ...

Governance and civil society in the European Union. Vol. 1

Normative perspectives

There is no contesting the ubiquity of the term governance in contemporary social science and public discourse. From a rather innocuous start as a term to describe ways in which corporate firms should be managed, it has come to challenge some of the dominant forms ...

The political economy of the Eurpean Constitution

The enlargement process, the creation of the Monetary Union and the need to promote further the political and economic integration of Europe have ignited an intense debate at the European level among researchers and policy-makers. This book reviews and provides new contributions on the political ...

Europa en la Era Global

Europa en la era global es una mirada amplia y contextualizadora a la construcción de la nueva Europa, a partir de los nuevos retos que se plantean: la inmigración y el nuevo estado del bienestar. El sociólogo británico sostiene que debemos replantearnos el estado del ...

Instituciones de la Unión Europea (1651-2007)

Este manual es una valiosa aportación para la formación de los jóvenes ciudadanos eurpeos con conciencia de serlo y vocación de contribuir al progreso de la cosntrucción de la Unión Europea.

Economía de la Unión Europea

El libro pretende dar una visión de los logros que se han materializado en las distintas parcelas de la integración europea y la evolución estructural de las políticas, resaltando los grandes avances cualitativos que se han ido dando desde que la Unión inicia su singladura ...

The european economy in an American mirror

Europe's economy is under strain due to lagging productivity growth, population ageing, the difficulties of adjustment in an enlarged European Union, and the challenges of globalization. In comparison with America, rates of growth of GDP per capita and labour productivity growth are anaemic, raising ...

La Unión Europea ante la globalización

"una vez más es un honor presentar las actas de otro de los congresos organizados por el Instituto de Estudios Europeos y Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Pontifícia de Salamanca. Fundado bajo el patrocinio de San Benito y la inspiración de René Cassin, este centro ...

Monetary integration in Europe

The European Economic and Monetary Union comprises twelve member states and forms a currency area of considerable size and, until now, remarkable stability. Still, however, discussion is going on whether it can survive as an institution providing the highest degree of monetary integration which is ...

L'euramérique

Dans notre monde où les désastres écologiques semblent être imminents, les guerres nombreuses, quelles actions envisager pour assurer un avenir de paix aux habitants de notre planète ? Comment faire comprendre qu'il est primordial de substituer à l'esprit de conquête un partenariat durable à ...

United in diversity?

european integration and political cultures

At a time when the European Union is further expanding and countries, such as Turkey are being accepted for eventual membership, the question of what is meant by a unified Europe and how that might be achieved has never been more pressing. Europe is more ...

Las ciudades europeas

conflictos sociales y gobernanza

INDICE: Las ciudades europeas en las sociedades europeas. ¿Un "intervalo histórico para las ciudades europeas"?. Actores sociales y políticos en las ciudades europeas y la creación de unos modos de gobernanza urbana.

The EU-Russian energy dialogue

Europe's future energy security

EU-Russian energy dialogue represents a policy issue that forces us to take a serious look at several crucial questions related to the present and future of Europe such as: how can the EU area ensure its future energy security when it is running out of ...

Économie de l'Union Européenne

Le mouvement de globalisation des économies favorise le développement des unions régionales. Parmi tous les accords existants, l'Union européenne fait figure de précurseur. C'est l'ensemble qui a poussé le plus loin le processus d'intégration économique et institutionnel à partir de sa ...

El mercado de trabajo europeo en el proceso de convergencia económica y social

un análisis basado en el Panel de Hogares de la Unión Europea (PHOGUE)

Coord. Luis Toharia. El objetivo de esta monografía consiste en analizar desde un punto de vista microeconómico (utilizando la Encuesta de Panel de Hogares de la Unión Europea) las diferencias territoriales en un amplio vector de variables económicas y sociales con el fin de caracterizar ...

European merger control

do we need an efficiency defence?

During its first fifteen years, the EUs merger control system, unlike most others in the world, offered only minimal possibilities for taking efficiency gains into account as a mitigating factor that might offset the anti-competitive effects of a merger. This book examines the background to ...