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Global Health ist derzeit en vogue - auch bei der Europäischen Union (EU). Doch welche Rolle spielen die in Brüssel ansässigen zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen in der Politikgestaltung der EU für Global Health? Die Autorin analysiert kritisch den inklusiven Charakter der europäischen Strategie.

At present, there is great variance in the law and practice concerning the publication of personal data of newly naturalized citizens across the European Union Member States, affecting a million individuals annually. Depending on the extent of the personal details made available, publishing the fact that an individual has naturalized can have negative repercussions in that individual's state of naturalization or his state of other/prior nationality. While some European states publish personal details in their official journals to some extent, twelve do not do so at all. In recent years, several countries have amended their legislation or re-assessed publication practices in response to the growing awareness of the importance of data protection concerns. This article analyzes the current Member State practices in this field, focusing in particular on data protection rules for naturalization in Ireland, France, and Latvia. This analysis documents the emergence of a clear trend toward the development of a more critical approach to the publication of personal data, which was previously the unquestioned default. The article subsequently investigates the possibility of identifying a legal standard that could be used to determine whether a more coherent approach to regulating the issue of publishing personal data of naturalized citizens can be deduced. In the EU context, it finds that such publication practices may fall within the scope of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In the context of Council of Europe law, the principles of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data undoubtedly apply. U.N. instruments, by contrast, appear de facto inapplicable. The article concludes with a set of recommendations for what information should be published and how, emphasizing that public authorities should carefully scrutinize and potentially reconsider their strategies managing the publication of personal data upon naturalization.

This contribution to the Special Issue focuses on how we might incorporate 'peripheral thinking' on the EU, with a particular focus on teaching the EU at a 'new periphery': in Brexit Britain. First, it considers the challenges of teaching the EU in the context of what now feels like an almost permanent crisis in the EU. It argues in favour of a 'critical-pluralist' approach: that is, an approach that fully engages with a 'peripheral' (including 'critical', 'normative' and 'dissident') set of ideas as part of a commitment to scholarly pluralism. Second, it suggests--with reference to the recent experience of updating an EU politics textbook--that a 'question driven approach' might be one pedagogically practical way of presenting such a plurality to our students. Finally, it turns to consider how such an approach might be realised in the classroom, in the particular context of teaching the EU at the EU's 'new periphery', the United Kingdom. While that context presented various teaching related challenges, Brexit as a case study was usefully deployed in a variety of ways in order to pursue the critical-pluralist approach that is advocated.

A neoliberal electricity privatization experiment in Ontario, Canada's largest province, was supposed to eliminate one of the country's biggest public utilities and introduce market discipline to the system. The grand experiment would begin in 2001. But an activist campaign by an opposition coalition initiated by electricity workers was crucial in turning back the market-oriented reforms, and indeed turning it into one of the great political train-wrecks in Ontario history.

What impact does the negotiation stage prior to the adoption of international agreements have on the subsequent implementation stage? We address this question by examining the linkages between decision making on European Union directives and any subsequent infringements and delays in national transposition. We formulate a preference-based explanation of failures to comply, which focuses on states' incentives to deviate and the amount of discretion granted to states. This is compared with state-based explanations that focus on country-specific characteristics. Infringements are more likely when states disagree with the content of directives and the directives provide them with little discretion. Granting discretion to member states, however, tends to lead to longer delays in transposition. We find no evidence of country-specific effects.

AbstractDue to the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, people has changed the way they work, learn and socialize. As result, it is important to identify the pre‐existing digital gaps to implement the European Union digitalization strategy. This study aims to identify typologies of internet use in the 28 European Union (EU) countries (at the time of the survey), based on the characteristics of the users and their internet usage patterns. A two‐level latent class analysis was applied. At the first level, individuals within each country were grouped according to their characteristics of internet use; and, simultaneously, at the second level, countries were grouped based on the similar structure of individual segments. Using data from Eurobarometer, results show that internet use in the EU digital market is not homogeneous. The European Commission should take these pre‐existing gaps into account in the EU digitalization strategy.