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Re_visioning Bodies - DNA #10 (Paperback)
Daniel Neugebauer; Text written by Maaike Bleeker, Carmen Moersch, Eliza Steinbock, Ayse Gulec
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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Politics -
International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,
University of Twente (Bedrijf Bestuur en Technologie), 24 entries
in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the conclusion
of the European Council in December 2005, the Presidency mentions
only in a single sentence what had filled covers of newspapers the
days before: "The European Council reached agreement on the
Financial Perspective 2007-2013 as set out in doc. 15915/05."1 It
was the second attempt after a former Council six month before, and
also this time it needed tough negotiations and a number of revised
proposals, until the quoted sentence could be printed. The reason
for this controversy can be summarized in an old German adage:
"Beim Geld hort die Freundschaft auf." Those who are partners in
other situations begin to bargain over every Euro they have to
spend for the EU budget, giving short-term national interests
priority to long-term EU interests. In some way this is
understandable, despite the fact that the Council should bring
forward the European project - politicians are elected in the
nation states and have to justify every Euro they leave in
Brussels. Besides this, the term of "solidarity" has neither in
Article I-2 of the "Treaty establishing a Constitution for
Europe"2, nor in article 1 of the "Treaty on European Union"3 been
concretised. But nevertheless the difficulties surrounding the
agreement on the Financial Perspective are symptoms of a serious
problem: Countries which pay more into the budget than they get
back, the so-called net contributors, feel to have unacceptable
high costs in relation to the benefits they gain from their
EU-Membership. The debate on "net positions" is one of the major
reasons which lead to the low acceptance of the European Union in
public: According to Eurobarometer, 62% of the population are
worried "about the increasing costs for the Member States of
building Europe."4 Only the fea
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Skin and Code - DNA #5 (Paperback)
Daniel Neugebauer; Text written by Alyk Blue, Luce Delire, Johanna Burai, Rhea Ramjohn, …
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R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
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