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The Europeanization of America provides a thorough and accessible examination of the European Community's progress toward "union" from legal, economic, and public policy perspectives. Presuming a distinctly American audience, Fischer has taken great pains to explain specific events, the EU's long-term goals, and its potential to achieve them in terms that Americans can relate to and understand. The book is highly readable, using references to laws,...
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The finances of the European Union play a central, albeit rarely acknowledged, role in the dynamic of European political and economic integration. The author examines how the budget is being used to enhance the internal cohesion of the Union and its growing external commitments, and illustrates how it is no longer the prerogative of national governments: regional authorities, public agencies, universities and interest groups - all compete for budgetary...
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This film portrays the rapidly increasing dilemma of illegal migration to Europe. It goes into the so-called "Jungle", an abusive and unlawful immigrant encampment near Calais in France, full of desperate refugees from all around the world. Interviewing them, the director provides us testimonials and opinions on the crisis that threatens to destroy the European Union
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With political controversies raging over issues such as the wearing of headscarves in schools and the mention of Christianity in the European Constitution, religious issues are of growing importance in European politics. In this volume, Byrnes and Katzenstein analyze the effect that enlargement to countries with different and stronger religious traditions may have on the EU as a whole, and in particular on its homogeneity and assumed secular nature....
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"Europe Recast tells the story of European integration from its modern origins in the 1940s to the challenges of the new century." "Dinan captures the dynamics of the evolving debates about European unity. Examining the factors and forces that led to today's union, he brings ideas, interests, and actors to life. He has written a book that, combining an authoritative treatment of the subject and an engaging style, is an essential guide to unraveling...
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"This fully revised and updated edition of a seminal reference work provides a detailed chronological account of the development of European integration. The history of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), which began immediately after World War II, is recounted in the form of a descriptive summary of the most significant events, measures, arrangements and conferences. The chronology concludes at the end of 2001 with what is arguably one of the most...
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"Critics like to depict the European Union as undemocratic and unpopular, but their arguments are too often based on myths and misunderstandings. This does us all a disservice, and in this period of uncertainty about the future of Europe it is more important than ever that we have a firm grasp of the issues at stake. This powerful new book debunks the misconceptions surrounding the EU and makes a compelling and comprehensive case for the benefits...
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Europe's financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to conundrums that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro's invention. And, Euro or no Euro, these clashes will continue into the future.
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For more than two years, Europe has teetered on the edge of an economic precipice-one of the factors that has pushed Britain back into recession. How exactly did Europe get itself into the current financial mess? Talking to historians, economists and politicians, BBC business editor Robert Peston takes a long view of the euro-from Churchill's vision of a United States of Europe to the bail-outs of Greece, Portugal, and Ireland. Britain, with its vast...
19) None of your business: world data flows, electronic commerce, and the European privacy directive
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"The historic European Union Directive on Data Protection takes effect in October 1998. A key provision prohibits transfer of personal information from Europe to other countries if the European Commission decides that they lack "adequate" protection of privacy. If enforced as written, the Directive could significantly disrupt commerce between Europe and other countries, such as the United States, that do not have comprehensive privacy statutes." "In...
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