pertaining to the goals strived for by the EU when it dealt with good governance in Vietnam: 1. What goals did the EU pursue in its good governance agenda in Vietnam during the period 2000 - 2013? 2. To what extent do these goals reflect the EU’s exercise of normative power? As a matter of fact‚ there are a number of official documents reflecting the EU’s commitment to promote good governance in Vietnam. In the “EC – Vietnam Country Strategy Paper 2002 – 2006”‚ the EU asserted its willingness to support
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Commentary: EU to impose anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese solar panels. Free trade versus protectionism is a topic of great debate in internal economics. The former takes place when there are no barriers to trade established by the government or international organizations. On the other hand‚ protectionism is the use of barriers to imports in a determined country and it is usually applied to protect domestic employment and firms. According to the article‚ China is being accused by the EU of dumping
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Fiscal and Monetary policy- The response of global economic crisis especially in EU Introduction Monetary and fiscal authorities across the globe have responded quickly and decisively to these extraordinary developments. In particular‚ against the background of rapidly receding inflationary pressures and risks‚ the Euro system has taken monetary policy and liquidity management measures that were unprecedented in nature‚ scope and timing. Since
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Prof. Lars Rensmann PL 315 Institutions and Policies of the European Union November 2‚ 2013 Asymmetric Integration in the EU: Nuclear Energy Policy within European member states The delegation of powers by member states for the process of integration has made the European Union unique in its kind. Although the main European theoretical schools might argue whether the EU is more supranational and intergovernmental‚ no one can argue that European states have made a serious commitment to create
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Why the EU should/or not to regulate and manage the (co-operational-) issues of internal security? The European Union history has lasted for 60 years. The agreed principles (EU treaties)‚ common economic market‚ single currency zone‚ the establishment of "Schengen" Area and solidarity policies are proof that "the EU project" was created and developed in different periods‚ through decades. Today‚ the EU is quite different from what it was 10 or 20 years ago‚ let alone from the EU of sixty years
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The roles of the main EU institutions (Council‚ Commission and Parliament) in the management of the continuing/financial crisis” I. Introduction. The ongoing euro economic/financial crisis has exposed large gaps in the ability of both the European Union’s (EU) institutions as a whole‚ and of the euro zone group in particular‚ to take a common approach to solving the problem. In the absence of an adequate common policy approach we have seen individual member states‚ including Ireland‚ resorting
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between national perspectives of the relationship between EU and national law‚ and the CJEU’s perspective. “European law is based on two fundamental legal doctrines‚ direct effect and supremacy.”1 The doctrine of supremacy‚ which has no formal basis in the original Treaty of European Community‚2 was first established by the European Court of Justice in the case of Flaminio Costa v ENEL3. The ECJ concluded in Costa that when conflicts arise‚ EU law always prevails over national law. Moreover‚ the
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created a financial boom which finally led to the bubble and subsequently to the bust. 1. Financial instability In EU crisis and US financial crisis cases the banking sector was hit hardest and accelerated the crisis through a credit crunch and credit crisis. Whereas in the US this process was driven by a real estate boom and the issuance of complex securities (as bad assets)‚ in the EU the treasury bonds of the periphery states were playing the role of the bad securities that became a problem for
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“The roles of the main EU institutions (Council‚ Commission and Parliament) in the management of the continuing economic/financial crisis” Methodology – There is a wealth of information for this report since it is an up-to-date topic which affected the whole world. The research is based on analysis and factual material presented in European Institutions reports‚ books‚ analysis and commentary from leading economists‚ Irish Government web-site‚ e-journals from DBS Library and Google Scholar. The
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costs and lower prices for consumers. Jobs may be created as a consequence of increased trade between member economies. There is increased protection. Firms inside the bloc are protected from cheaper imports from outside‚ such as the protection of the EU shoe industry from cheap imports from China and Vietnam. There are other long-term political and social benefits to trade blocs. The countries’ economies become more intertwined also the political reasons for close cooperation within the bloc increases
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