From Listening To Action: New Member States In European Union
Author: Darina Malová
Publisher: EL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 8089493009
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Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union
Author: Helena Legido-Quigley
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9289071931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.
The Member States of the European Union
Author: Simon Bulmer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 0199544832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive and rounded thematic study of the EU-member states. The text provides detailed coverage of the principal member states and comparative studies of the smaller states, as well as discussing the issue of enlargement and covering empirical themes.
Democratization in EU Foreign Policy
Author: Benedetta Berti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1317502426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew democracies are uniquely positioned to promote democratic values and have a competitive advantage in the global democracy assistance industry. This book examines the attempts of one group of young democracies, from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to channel this pro-democracy agenda into both national and European foreign policy and development support. It looks at how CEE is ‘upstream’ changing the EU on crucial policy issues as part of the common foreign and security policy. Furthermore, it tracks the process whereby imported ideas and norms are recycled for further export ‘downstream’, and how these concepts are received in countries outside of the EU including the post-Soviet space, the Western Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa region and Central Asia. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of democratisation studies, European Union studies, comparative politics, international relations, international development, European politics, as well as area/regional studies.
External Energy Security in the European Union
Author: Matúš Mišík
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1351106511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the positions of small EU members in approaching external energy security, using Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as case studies. It examines when small EU members support and when they oppose further development of cooperation at the European level in external energy security and argues that their preferences depend on their perceived ability to deal with the challenges of their energy policies. It finds that small EU members whose decision-makers believe that their states can successfully deal with these challenges do not support the deepening of European integration in external energy security as this would mean a loss of competences (and vice-versa), concluding that European integration is considered to be a response to perceived vulnerability. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and professionals in EU politics and foreign policy, energy policy and security, and more broadly to security studies, European politics and international relations.
Europe in 12 Lessons
Author: Pascal Fontaine
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9789279535901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParty Attitudes Towards the EU in the Member States
Author: Nicolò Conti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-04
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1317936566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a moment where the EU is facing an important number of challenges, there is growing interest in understanding how parties influence the way Europe evolves as a political issue, notably how parties structure domestic competition over European issues and they mobilise sentiments in referenda over European integration . This book examines the views of national parties towards the European Union and the different facets of a supranational citizenship. It provides an in-depth investigation into the variations to the cross-national patterns in ten countries, including old and new member states and different EU regions. Using original and innovative concepts, data and research techniques the authors: Explore whether parties formulate specific positions and preferences on the most particular aspects of the EU process. Investigate whether the party’s stance could be inserted into more pro-European, or more Eurosceptical attitudes. Illustrate patterns of party contestation of the EU issues in the member states and explains these patterns in the light of the main theoretical arguments. Making an important contribution to party attitudes towards the EU and the Europeanisation of party politics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, sociology, comparative politics, government and party politics
Energy Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Tomas Maltby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-04-04
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1108755895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the mutual interplay of climate and energy policies in eleven Central and Eastern European countries in the context of the EU's energy transition. Energy security has long been prioritised in the region and has shaped not only national climate and energy policy, but also EU-level policy-making and implementation. Whilst the region shares economic, institutional and historical energy supplier commonalities it is not homogenous, and the book considers the significant differences between the preferences and policies of these member states. Chapters also explore the effect of the EU on member states that have joined since 2004 and their influence on the EU's energy and climate policies and their role in highlighting the importance of the concepts of security and solidarity. The book highlights the challenges to, and drivers of, energy transitions in the region and compares these with those in global energy transitions.
Health Policy and European Union Enlargement
Author: Mckee
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0335226442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile there may be consensus on the broader issues of the core objectives of the health care system, expectations differ between EU countries, and European national policy-makers. This book seeks firstly to assess the impact of the enlargement process and then to analyse the challenges that lie ahead in the field of health and health policy.
Citizens' Initiatives in Europe
Author: M. Setälä
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-03-13
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0230369901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration and analysis of the regulation and practices of citizens' initiatives in eleven European democracies and the EU. The contributors to this volume shed light on how citizens' initiatives influence patterns of political agenda-setting in representative democracies and how they can contribute to participatory democracy.
