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Introduction / Steffen Angenendt -- Asylum and migration in the EU member states: structures, challenges and policies in comparative perspective / Steffen Angenendt -- Austria / Heinz Fassmann -- Belgium / Antonio Cruz -- Denmark / Jan Hjarn(c)ı -- Finland / Olavi Koivukangas -- France / Steffen Angenendt and Peter Pfaffenroth -- Germany / Steffen Angenendt -- Greece / Ross Fakiolas -- Ireland / Khalid Koser and Melisa Salazar -- Italy / Michele Contel and Rosaria De Biase -- Luxembourg / Antonio Cruz -- The Netherlands / Jeroen Doomerik -- Portugal / Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade and Manuel Armando Oliveira -- Spain / Walter Actis, Miguel (c)ngel de Prada and Carlos Pereda -- Sweden / Birgitta Ornbrant -- United Kingdom / Khalid Koser and Melisa Salazar

'Nach dem Amsterdamer Vertrag und dem Tampere Programm von 1999 sollte in der EU bis 2004 ein Konzept für eine gemeinschaftliche Migrations- und Asylpolitik verabschiedet sein. Dieses Vorhaben ist gescheitert, obwohl die Voraussetzungen günstig erschienen: Die Migrationsregime der EU-15 hatten sich einander angeglichen und in einigen Ländern mehrten sich bereits seit den neunziger Jahren Anzeichen, die Migrationspolitik wieder offener zu gestalten. Eine genauere Betrachtung der inneren Verfasstheit der Migrationsgesellschaften offenbart jedoch eine differenzierte Situation in der Einwanderungsregion Westeuropa, und die Migrationspolitik der Einwanderungsländer scheint auf den ersten Blick einer widerstreitenden Logik zwischen externer Öffnung und interner Schließung gegenüber Migration zu folgen. In dem Beitrag soll auf der Grundlage eines Vergleichs der 15 alten EU-Länder diese widerstreitende Logik näher beleuchtet und untersucht werden, ob sich dahinter die Strategie verbirgt, einer Denationalisierung - im Prozess der europäischen Integration - eine Politik der Renationalisierung entgegenzusetzen. Es wird argumentiert, dass sich hier Grundzüge eines politischen Konzepts von Zitadellen aus 'virtuellen Nationalstaaten' in der 'Festung Europa' erkennen lassen. Dieses Konzept wirkt dem Bedarf an Einwanderung ebenso entgegen, wie es der europäischen Integration Grenzen setzt.' (Autorenreferat)

This book links theoretical studies to empirical evidence and constitutes a comprehensive appreciation of bargaining by comparing integrative and distributive bargaining in the context of the European fisheries policy.

"Staaten gehen nicht bankrott." - Dass Walter Wriston, ehemaliger CEO der einstigen Citibank und einer der mächtigsten Bankiers seiner Zeit, mit seinem Ausspruch aus dem Jahr 1982 nicht recht behalten sollte, zeigte sich schon bei einigen Staatsbankrotten in der Vergangenheit. Doch schien es bislang eine feste Grundannahme zu sein, das Phänomen "Staatsbankrott" sei ausschließlich für Entwicklungsländer bestimmt. Allerdings belegen die jüngsten Erfahrungen innerhalb der Eurozone, dass sich diese als nicht haltbar erweist. Schließlich rückte Oktober 2009 ein europäischer Staat, nämlich Griechenland, mit seinem immensen Haushaltsdefizit zunehmend in den Fokus der Betrachtungen von Politik und internationalen Kapitalmärkten. Zweifel an der Tragfähigkeit des Schuldenstandes ließen die Risikoprämien in den Folgemonaten auf ein noch nie dagewesenes Niveau seit Einführung der Gemeinschaftswährung im Jahre 1999 ansteigen. Wenige Monate später stufte die Ratingagentur Standard & Poor's Griechenland auf "Ramschstatus" herab. Damit begannen die Euro-Partnerländer in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) verschiedene finanzielle Stützungsmaßnahmen zu entwickeln, um einem verheerenden Domino-Effekt vorbeugen zu können. Nach dem EU-Rettungsschirm, den beispielsweise auch Irland in Anspruch nehmen musste, fassten die EU-Minister auf dem EU-Gipfel am 16./17. Dezember 2010 eine Vielzahl an neuen Beschlüssen, um Europa aus der Eurokrise zu führen. Dazu gehört auch der Europäischen Stabilitätsmechanismus (ESM), der den im Jahr 2013 auslaufenden EU-Rettungsschirm ablösen soll. Geschaffen werden sollte ein Regelungsmechanismus innerhalb der EWU für den Fall, dass sich ein Staat in einer akuten finanziellen Liquiditätsengpass-Situation befindet respektive sich im Worst-Case-Szenario mit dem Staatsbankrott konfrontiert sieht. Im Rahmen dieses

1. Introduction -- 2. Europeanizaton and the compliance patterns of Balkan states -- 3. Legitimization and European foreign policy -- 4. The policy of EU conditionality in the Balkans -- 5. The politics of EU conditionality -- 6. The record of Balkan compliance with EU conditionality -- 7. The politics of compliance in the Balkans -- 8. Conclusion.

The outbreak of the economic and financial crisis in 2008, the socalled Great Recession, has made that many European Union countries have made massive interventions in their banking and financial systems. These interventions have had a considerable impact in the public finances of these countries. The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact on the national public budgets of the measures of public support to problem financial institutions carried out between the years 2008 and 2013, and to study how this budgetary impact has affected to the fiscal imbalances and to the strategies of fiscal impulse and consolidation implemented along these years.

This study used a modified Cobb-Douglas production model to estimate and test production input co-efficient for Group 28 (including the U.K), Group 27 (excluding the U.K) and individual European Union member countries by using the data of 31 years from 1990 to 2020. Results indicate that the log-linear C-D production model fits the data very well in terms of capital, male and female labour force elasticities, measuring the return to scale, standard errors and economies of scale for Group as well as for individual member countries. Results showed EU 28, EU 27 and from the list of member countries only United Kingdom, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Malta, Cyprus, Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Finland, Germany and Netherland are on increasing return to scale, only France is a constant return to scale (as value 0.99, close to 1) and remaining countries are on decreasing return to scale. The study also finds that the United Kingdom as an individual performing increasing return to scale so U.K separation (Brexit) from EU will not harm the U.K and even EU itself, as EU is on increasing return to scale after including/excluding U.K. Study also finds that EU as a group of 27 member countries exhibits increasing return to scale, which is a symbol for overall EU growth and development and suggestion for East Asian and South Asian countries to make a trading bloc or union like European Union.

The article is devoted to the research of a topical and debatable issue regarding the basic aspects of the status of an employee in the European Union, which includes employment of citizens of the European Union and employment of third-country nationals who are not members of the European Union. Particular attention is paid to the issue of illegal labor migration in the European Union in the context of current and integration processes and their impact on the current economic situation in the EU. Every year, the phenomenon of labor migration becomes more relevant, because of the poor economic situation in many countries people are forced to seek employment in other countries and emigrate. But the conditions for such persons are different. For example, for emigrants from other countries of the European Union they will be more or less the same, while for emigrants from third countries they will be completely different. There are many conflicts and disputes and, also there is discrimination, which significantly inhibits the legal status of expatriate workers. Such workers face a lot of barriers with regard to their housing during the period of work, working conditions, salaries, moving their families with them, educating children, moving around the territory of the European Union, desire to stay in the future in the European Union. Most of the issues remain unresolved, which has a very negative effect on emigrant workers. The absence of the rule of law that would regulate this issue binds hands of such a category of people, restricts them in fundamental rights and freedoms, in actions and decisions, which is a direct violation. Nowadays the implementation of the legal status of migrant workers in the European Union is underdeveloped, imperfect, and not uniform for all countries. There is also no well-defined mechanism of legal regulation of labor migration in the works of scientists. So this issue requires a thorough analysis and search for solutions to this problem. In this article we will try to explore the ...

What is online risk? How can we best protect children from it? Who should be responsible for this protection? Is all protection good? Can Internet users trust the industry? These and other fundamental questions are discussed in this book. Beginning with the premise that the political and democratic processes in a society are affected by the way in which that society defines and perceives risks, Children in the Online World offers insights into the contemporary regulation of online risk for children (including teens), examining the questions of whether such regulation is legitimate and whether it does in fact result in the sacrifice of certain fundamental human rights. The book draws on representative studies with European children concerning their actual online risk experiences as well as an extensive review of regulatory rationales in the European Union, to contend that the institutions of the western European welfare states charged with protecting children have changed fundamentally, at the cost of the level of security that they provide. In consequence, children at once have more rights with regard to their personal decision making as digital consumers, yet fewer democratic rights to participation and protection as 'digital citizens'. A theoretically informed, yet empirically grounded study of the relationship between core democratic values and the duty to protect young people in the media-sphere, Children in the Online World will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in new technologies, risk and the sociology of childhood and youth