Institutions and Policies of EU

The research conducted within the programme "Institutions and Policies of European Union" refer to institutional and legal aspects of EU functioning before and after EU enlargement. The programme offers a thorough and multidisciplinary approach to European integration. A particular emphasis is put upon the rules and mechanisms leading to enhanced cooperation among EU member states. Within the program we will also analyse the delegation of national competences to the Community level and the consequences of this development for EU societies.

Natolin Paper 41 (2010)
Justyna Łacny

Periodic penalty payments, lump sums and
financial corrections imposed on Member
States for the infringement of the EU law

Natolin Paper 40 (2010)
Rafał Riedel

Supranationalisation of Energy Security in Europe.
Theoretical Approaches

Natolin Paper 39 (2010)
Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk

The issues of the protection of fundamental
rights in EU competition proceedings

The Black Sea Region and EU Policy
The Challenge of Divergent Agendas

Edited by Karen Henderson and Carol Weaver,
University of Leicester

Ashgate 2010

The Black Sea region rarely hit the media headlines until the outbreak of war in Georgia in 2008, yet its importance as a focus of European Union (EU) external policy making had already been growing for several years. The area is fascinating and diverse, comprising both large and small states, with a mixture of democracies and more authoritarian regimes. Traditionally a central foreign policy concern for Russia and Turkey, since the end of the Cold War, the EU and the US have become increasingly involved in the many dimensions of Black Sea politics.

This book brings together a broad range of specialists on the region to analyze the challenge of divergent agendas both within and outside the EU. More specifically it looks at how the EU's enlargement to include states on the Black Sea shore has brought about new external policies including the European Neighbourhood Policy, Black Sea Synergy and the Eastern Partnership, all representing subtly different aims and interests. The various sections in the book also examine regionalization, conflict resolution, security, relationships between the Black Sea's states and last but not least, the vital issue of energy which has begun to dominate the discussion of the region.

Designed to further the debate on the future of EU policies for the Black Sea region, this book is an essential resource for researchers, students and others in search of a coherent picture of the inter-relationship of EU initiatives and policies in the region.

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409412014

Leitbilder for the Future of the European Union
Dissenting Promoters of Unity

Edited by Gesa-Stefanie Brincker, Mathias Jopp, Lenka Anna Rovná

Nomos 2011

An ever growing European Union (EU)? Treaty reforms, EU-budget negotiations and Euro-zone enlargements: European integration was put to a great test at the beginning of the 21st century. How were these developments and especially the way to the Lisbon Treaty experienced in different EU member states? How did the variety of actors in seven exemplified countries react to these changes and a growing heterogeneity within the EU? How did they thus formulate their ideas for the future of the Union, their Leitbilder?

The approach of this research originates in the basic assumption that Leitbilder can be seen as a key factor in the development of the EU. Such Leitbilder contain conceptual statements dealing with the underlying institutional and constitutional construction of the EU and its potential finalité. They can also relate to elements of the integration process, for example specific policy areas. The analysis of Leitbilder in old and new EU member states answers the questions in which way the spectrum of the Euro-political Leitbilder changed with enlargement and if, as a consequence of potentially increasing heterogeneity within the EU, there are foreseeable tendencies of greater fragmentation, continuity or reinvention.

www.nomos-shop.de/11675

Institutional Design and Voting Power in the European Union

Edited by Marek A. Cichocki, Natolin European Centre
and Karol Życzkowski, Jagiellonian University

Ashgate 2010

Leading global experts in the field of politics and mathematics bring forth key insights on how voting power should be allocated between EU member states, and what the policy consequences are of any given institutional design. Close attention is paid to the practical implications of decision-making rules, the nature and distribution of power, and the most equitable ways to represent the preoccupations of European citizens both in the Council and European Parliament.

Highly theoretical and methodologically advanced, this volume is set to enrich the debate on the future of the EU's institutional design. A valuable source of information to scholars of political science, European studies and law, as well as to people working on game theory, theory of voting and, in general, applications of mathematics to social science.

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754677543

Natolin Analyses 3/2010
Ariella Huff

Strange Bedfellows
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition and Europe

Natolin Analyses 2/2010
Ariella Huff

The UK election
What outcomes for Europe?

New Europe. Natolin Review

Special Edition 2009.
Consolidation or Disintegration?
Security policy cooperation in the Baltic Sea sub-region

New Europe. Natolin Review 2 (7) 2008

List of contents (pdf)

New Europe. Natolin Review 1 (6) 2008

List of contents (pdf)

Natolin Paper 33 (2009)
Adriana Zabłocka

Non-horizontal Mergers
and EC Competition Policy

Natolin Analyses 4/2009
Rafał Trzaskowski

The patterns of voting
in the Council of Ministers of the European Union.
The Impact of 2004 enlargement

Natolin Paper 31 (2009)
Wanda Dugiel

Changes within world trade system
Prospects for the European Union

Natolin Paper 30 (2009)
Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz

Searching for a model of procedural
justice in Community law.
Myth or reality?

Natolin Analyses 5/2007
Emmanuelle Laloum, Stine Rasmussen

Shaping French Foreign policy for the next 5 years:
Segolene Royal vs. Nicolas Sarkozy

Distribution of power and voting procedures
in the European Union
Natolin, October 12-13, 2007

About the conference (pdf)
Abstracts of presentations (pdf)

Full presentations

Apres Enlargement: Taking Stock of the Immediate Legal and Political Responses to the Accession of Central and Eastern European States to the EU
Florence, April 29-30, 2005
Conference organized in cooperation with
the European University Institute, Florence

LEITBILDER (key concepts) for the European Union
after Enlargement.

Fragmentation, Continuity or Reinvention?
Will the enlarged European Union, the EU-27, be based upon a consistent set of ideas and key concepts (LEITBILDER) in so-called "old" and "new" member states, or will it be characterized by fragmentation? Will Western and Central-Eastern EU-member states share the same set of basic political beliefs, convictions, ideas, concepts and visions of Europe or are they developing in different directions? Are the member states' actors supporting further deepening of European integration or do they rather promote less integration which could lead to a dilution of the Union? Last but not least, do we probably observe a reinvention of key concepts (LEITBILDER) for the future EU resulting from a growing heterogeneity among political actors' views?

Cooperation: Natolin European Centre.
More information: www.iep-berlin.de/index.php?id=72&L=1