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Ads by Google      NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: European Union On 29 October 2004, European heads of state signed a Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, which is currently awaiting ratification by individual member states. Freedom for its citizens to vote in local government and European Parliament elections in any member state. In addition, most of the EFTA-members (the European Free Trade Association) are parties to the EEA-treaty (the European Economic Area), which means that these countries are participants in the single market. http://pedia.nodeworks.com/E/EU/EUR/European_Union   (3890 words)      European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Most European Free Trade Association members are parties to the EEA-treaty (the European Economic Area), which means that these countries are participants in the single market. The European Union's activities cover all areas of public policy, from health and economic policy to foreign affairs and defence. The "European Community" is one of the three pillars of the European Union, being both the most important pillar and the only one to operate primarily through supranational institutions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union   (3890 words)      European Community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was for a time proposed that the European Constitution should repeal the Euratom treaty, in order to terminate the legal personality of Euratom at the same time as that of the European Community, but this was not included in the final version. The signed but unratified European Constitution would merge the European Community with the other two pillars of the European Union, making the European Union the legal successor of both the European Community and the present-day European Union. Furthermore in 2002 the ECSC ceased to exist with the expiration of the Treaty of Paris which established it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Community   (695 words)      European Community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was for a time proposed that the European Constitution should repeal the Euratom treaty, in order to terminate the legal personality of Euratom at the same time as that of the European Community, but this was not included in the final version. The signed but unratified European Constitution would merge the European Community with the other two pillars of the European Union, making the European Union the legal successor of both the European Community and the present-day European Union. The EEC was the most significant of the three treaty organizations that were consolidated in 1967 to form the European Community (EC; known since the ratification 1993 of the Maastricht treaty as the European Union, EU). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Community   (695 words)      The University of Saarland, Germany European Parliament - homepage with news on its members and activities European Investment Bank - information on its activities and news European Commission - homepage with information on its members, its President's speeches, and its future work programme, and also including: http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/english/euro.html   (695 words)      European Community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was for a time proposed that the European Constitution should repeal the Euratom treaty, in order to terminate the legal personality of Euratom at the same time as that of the European Community, but this was not included in the final version. The signed but unratified European Constitution would merge the European Community with the other two pillars of the European Union, making the European Union the legal successor of both the European Community and the present-day European Union. The European Economic Community (EEC) was an organization established (1958) by treaty between Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany, known informally as the Common Market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Common_Market   (628 words)      EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FACT SHEETS - 3.4.2. Company law The constitution of such companies requires a minimum amount of authorised capital as security for creditors and a counterpart to the limited responsibility of shareholders. It was a parliamentary intergroup that presented the Commission with a draft European statute for associations on 14 April 1985. The aim is to allow companies that want to act or establish themselves beyond their national frontiers the option of being subject to one set of (Community) legislation and not several as is the case at present. http://www.europarl.eu.int/factsheets/3_4_2_en.htm   (1316 words)      Communist Party of Great Britain - European Social Forum Antonis Manitakis represented the Greek party, Synapsismos (which has two members in the European parliament), at the Rome conference on the EU constitution. The London ESF was characterised by unprecedented levels of open dissent and protest against the bureaucratic stage-management of the whole event - inside and outside the official ESF structures. The finances of the ESF must be open and transparent. http://www.cpgb.org.uk/esf   (4006 words)      European Social Forum The European Constitution under discussion seeks to institutionalise this inequality between countries, consolidate the neo-liberal model and strengthen it with reactionary references to so-called common religious values. The popular opposition to this Europe of the monopolies and reaction, the Europe of social retrogression and increasing inequality, the Europe of the police apparatus and a European imperialist superpower, is increasing all over. For people, particularly for ‘non-Europeans’, the European Union is a fortress that excludes, imprisons, and throws back into the sea the men and women forced into exile by misery and war. http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv10n1/europeansf.htm   (756 words)      News Letter 3/98 The most developed of these regions is the European Common Market, which will officially begin trading with a combined currency, the euro, on January 1, 1999. In December 1991, the Treaty of European Union was esta- blished in Maastricht (the Netherlands), which set provisions for economic and monetary union, to be followed eventually by political union, including joint foreign and security policies. It was through the European Rate Mechanism (ERM) established in Maastricht that the values of individual countries' currencies were to be pegged against one another. http://www.ninehundred.net/~jveon/398NEWSL.html   (5172 words)      BBC NEWS Business Euro sinks after Dutch 'No' vote Analysts said that hostility to the euro, the sluggish European economy, fears of a European super-state and concerns about immigration had prompted 62% of Dutch voters to reject the constitution. But commentators have said that while the "No" votes from France and the Netherlands have not helped, the main reason for the currency's current lows was the recent string of interest rate rises in the US. Meanwhile, Dutch central bank chief Nout Wellink dismissed claims that European Monetary Union could break apart as a result of the vote. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/business/4602229.stm   (479 words)      Press Office > The Week in Europe > Latest Following the French and Dutch ‘no’ votes on the European Constitution, heads of government called for a “period of reflection” to enable a broad debate to take place in each member state. Simplifying the administrative burden for companies, SMEs and beneficiaries of EU grants while maintaining a high level of protection of the community funds, is the goal of new measures announced by the European Commission. A European conference on the future of Europe will be organised on 9 May 2006 which will draw together the main conclusions from the debates. http://www.cec.org.uk/press/we/latest.htm   (1432 words)      The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background Ruled by autocratic presidents since independence from France in 1960, Gabon introduced a multiparty system and a new constitution in the early 1990s that allowed for a more transparent electoral process and for reforms of governmental institutions. Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans, due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. European power struggles immersed the country in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. http://www.brainyatlas.com/fields/2028.html   (15472 words)      The Bruges Group He sits on the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, and was the first person in Britain to call for a referendum on the EU constitution. Here, after all, is empirical evidence that countries which participate in the European market without subjecting themselves to the associated costs of membership are wealthier than full EU members. Its regulatory bodies are the EFTA Surveillance Authority, which is the equivalent of the European Commission, and the EFTA Court, analogous to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). http://www.brugesgroup.com/mediacentre/index.live?article=10488   (3262 words)      A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --S-- His major work as an MEP was the 1984 Draft Treaty establishing the European Union, which reflected his view of the European Parliament as a potential constitution-making body (or ' constituent assembly '), able to enact a new constitutional Treaty if ratified by a majority of the large member states. Of the other institutions, Luxembourg plays host to the European Court of Justice, the European Investment Bank and the Court of Auditors ; Frankfurt houses the European Central Bank ; Brussels is the seat for the Commission and the Council of Ministers ; and other lesser offices or agencies are spread around various cities. The Snake rapidly died with the collapse of the dollar-based Bretton Woods system on which the post-war monetary order had been founded, but was reborn in 1972 as the 'Snake in the tunnel', a system whereby European currencies could fluctuate within a narrow band either side of the dollar. http://www.euro-know.org/dictionary/s.html   (3262 words)      The European Dream MetaFilter Some from this side of the Atlantic claim that the proposed European constitution is but one more step toward an EU with less paid leave, less health care, a weaker social safety net and a widening income gap. It is entirely misleading to talk about a European dream, set out by the EU constitution, as being held by any more than some parts of the political elite of european countries or the bureaucracy in Brussels. It is lower in most Western European countries than in the US, but I had thought that like most of the world, it was on the increase since the 1970s (as in Canada, which has a GINI index akin to Europe). http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/35986   (3262 words)      Talk:European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Major issues facing the European Union at the moment include its enlargement to the south and east (see below), its relationship with the United States of America, the revision of the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact, and the ratification of the European Constitution by member states. The comparison with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is irrelevant, as this was only a regional east European state with no european dimension. The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union needs an operational start point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:European_Union   (3262 words)      Schroeder says European social model under threat - Forbes.com BERLIN (AFX) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Europe's welfare state and its 'values' are under threat, in the wake of recent failed budget negotiations in Brussels and the troubled bid to ratify the first-ever EU constitution. Schroeder, who was speaking at a book presentation in Berlin, said Europe is faced with an identity crisis that goes far deeper than differences over financing or the constitution. Or do we want a big free-trade union; do we want to go from the European Union back to the European Economic Community?'. http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/06/21/afx2103439.html   (3262 words)      Federal Union campaign briefing: democracy and the European constitution The draft European constitution proposed by the European constitutional convention and currently under discussion in the IGC marks the next stage in the development of the European Union. The origin of the European Union is the recognition that there are issues too big for an individual country to solve on its own. Much of the debate about the development of the EU has been around the need to make sure that European decision-making is democratic. http://www.federalunion.org.uk/europe/democracy.shtml   (1045 words)      EUROPA - The EU at a glance - The History of the European Union Originally, the members of the European Parliament were chosen by the national parliaments but in 1979 the first direct elections were held, allowing the citizens of the member states to vote for the candidate of their choice. Economic and political integration between the member states of the European Union means that these countries have to take joint decisions on many matters. A number of European leaders became convinced that the only way to secure a lasting peace between their countries was to unite them economically and politically. http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/index_en.htm   (1045 words)      THE EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION The ETUC supports a new constitution for Europe and deplores the inability of Governments to agree one, on the basis of the result of the Convention on the future of Europe. * Encourage the US-originated doctrine of shareholder value to be the goal of all companies, in contrast to the traditional multi-stakeholder and social dialogue approach of European businesses. The ETUC has decided to call a European Day of action on the 2nd and 3rd April 2004 to demand a more social Europe. http://www.movementsforsocialism.com/european_trade_union_confederati.htm   (1045 words)      Denmark --  Encyclopædia Britannica Includes a fact sheet on this European country and notes on its administration, economy, and foreign policies. The political debate in late 2003 focused on Denmark's future as a member of the European Union—a thorny issue for a country known for its profound skepticism about Brussels. The failure of the EU summit in mid-December to agree on a new constitution for the enlarged 25-member union meant that Denmark's plans to hold a referendum on the issue—possibly in 2004—had to be... http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9106173&query=denmark   (1045 words)      EUROPE: Social Forum Seeks Alternative to Globalisation A second line of discussion against neo-liberalism calls for debates on citizens' and democratic rights in Europe, and an analysis of the draft European Union constitution. "We consider the ESF a European basis to the WSF, and a complement to it," Laurent Vannini, one of the ESF organisers in Paris told IPS. The ESF will prepare European civil society participation at the fourth World Social Forum to take place in January next year in the Indian city Mumbai. http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=21007   (799 words)      European Documentation and Research Centre The Division of Competences between the Institutions and the Member States of the EU in the Draft Constitution: Has the Balance Shifted? Legitimate Governance in the EU: The Implications of the White Paper on European Governance - Corinne Cordina The European Security and Defense Policy: Strenghtening a Climate of Security in the Mediterranean and avoiding a North/South Rift - Roberto Pace http://home.um.edu.mt/edrc/dissertationsba.html   (1384 words)      Webquest - Jean Monnet's Life and European History Historic steps as enlargement to 10, and shortly 12 or 13, new State members or the draft of a European constitution will change the Union that pioneers of European Unity envisaged. Take into account only the current or future members of the European Union. Elaborate, using percentages, statistics tables and graphics (Microsoft Excel) dividing the belligerent nations in EU countries (current and future members) and non-EU countries. http://www.historiasiglo20.org/pioneers/webquest.htm   (1059 words)      The Political Economy of the European Union This MA course addresses the core policies of the enlarged European Union, focusing on those relating to money and decision making on areas involving national and community spending. Required: MIDELFART-KRAVNIK,H. and OVERMAN,H./2oo2/: Delocation and European integration: is structural spending justified? Enlargement is though a major undercurrent, but this is not an enlargement class, concluding with the prospective role of the EU in the global economy. http://www.ceu.hu/ires/courses0405/politicaleconomyoftheeu.htm   (1442 words)      Welcome to the Cold Equator Meanwhile in France, the referendum on the European Constitution is turning out to be another disastrous move by Chirac; the first was his decision to dissolve the French assembly in 1997 which remains the greatest political miscalculation of the after-war. I doubt however that the constitution will be ammended in favour of the French fears over privatisation of the public sector but the French (and anyone who had ever travelled on both French and British trains) are notoriously protective of their public service. France has started to feel the European dream is slipping away - the extending of it to Turkey has caused a clear rift as this was the move from a “cultural” Europe to one based on mere economics. http://www.coldequator.co.uk   (1442 words)      European information There is current debate about the future of the EU and it's new constitution. European Coal and Steel Community Treaty, referred to as ECSC Treaty or the Treaty of Paris. European Economic Community Treaty, referred to as EEC Treaty or the Treaty of Rome. http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/help_and_training/htmdocs/europe.asp   (1574 words)      Article: New Capital of Leadership The complexity of the European Union and its importance for the global marketplace cannot be underestimated - it has been in a dynamic process of ongoing formation for 38 years now.  Unlike the United States, which has had an established 200-year-old constitution and legislative system, the European Union is subject to continuous change and evolution. To this can be added 200 to 300 professional public affairs firms, such as consultants, lawyers, and accounting firms offering representation on behalf of clients.  And, as corporations feel the growing influence of European Union legislation, the number of corporate public affairs representatives also increases. One of the more infamous directorates in the Commission is the competition/anti-trust directorate, which has considerable influence over European and trans-Atlantic business. http://www.centeronline.org/knowledge/article.cfm?ID=948   (1574 words)      Institutions of the EU - EUbusiness 2006-02-03 09:57:58 Finland is determined to resolve the problem of a new constitution for the European Union when it holds the six-month presidency of the bloc from July, head of state Tarja Halonen said Friday. 2006-01-31 06:48:14 In addition to rejecting a deal on value added sales tax agreed by the 24 other members of the European Union, Poland's conservative government has stood fast on EU-related issues such as joining the eurozone and bank mergers. Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States (Themes in European Governance S.) http://www.eubusiness.com/topics/Institutions/index_html?b_start:int=0   (860 words)

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