Intra-institutional coordination and inter-institutional negotiations: The creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) [PDF]
Analyses of the rising capacity for coordination within the Secretariats-General of the European Commission and Council have concentrated on their effects within these respective institutions.
Murdoch, Zuzana
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The Challenge of Public Diplomacy for the European External Action Service. EIPAscope 01/2011 [PDF]
One of the main questions emerging from the EU nascent diplomatic corps – the European External Action Service (EEAS) – is what type of diplomacy the EU will conduct and what will be the added value of this new level of diplomacy for the years to come ...
Courtier, Aurélie
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Corporate Sponsoring of the Council Presidency: A Research Agenda
Abstract Member states holding the Council Presidency routinely seek corporate sponsors. Typically, these sponsors offer free or discounted goods and services, such as food, beverages, cell phones, software or a car fleet in exchange for being labelled an official partner or sponsor of the Presidency.
Gijs Jan Brandsma, Reinout van der Veer
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The EU Council Presidency Dilemma: an Historical Institutionalist Interpretation [PDF]
The aim of this article is to demonstrate the usefulness of taking into account the variable of EU institutional development when analysing the consequences of EU membership. Using an historical institutionalist perspective, the article examines the path
Ana Mar Fernàndez
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Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States
Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli +2 more
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External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World
Abstract The European Union (EU) increasingly faces external pressures, ranging from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to an economically and politically assertive China to deep changes in the transatlantic relationship with the United States.
Christian Freudlsperger, Lucas Schramm
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The strength of the rotating Presidency is that it keeps the Presidency weak
One of the most important justifications for the adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon was that the introduction of a fixed President of the European Council would result in a more efficient Europe. During the negotiations serious attempts were made to strengthen the Presidency at the Council of Ministers level, including proposals to allow the European ...
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The Adaptive Stability of the European Union's Long‐Term Budget
Abstract This article examines the adaptive stability of the European Union's long‐term budget from the Delors I package of 1988–1992 to the Multiannual Financial Framework of 2014–2020, focusing on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Cohesion Policy.
David Moloney, Mads Dagnis Jensen
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The rotating Council presidency hinders legislative continuity in the Council of the European Union [PDF]
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union is held on a rotational basis by EU member states for six month terms. Andreas Warntjen writes that the frequent change of the Presidency sometimes causes disruption in EU legislative decision-making ...
Warntjen, Andreas
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Tariffs and Foreign Direct Investment in a Dynamic North–South Model
Abstract This paper examines how import tariffs by a developed country (the North) and a developing country (the South) affect innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a quality ladder model. We show that a Northern import tariff raises the relative wage of Northern labor, but impedes innovation and FDI. This may worsen Northern welfare. By
TATSURO IWAISAKO, HITOSHI TANAKA
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