Nearly three years have gone by after the enlargement of the EU to 10 new member states. It is now possible to dismiss the fears on the negative effects of this enlargement that circulated in Europe (and not only) before 2004. What is more relevant to assess now is how far the actual economic integration between the EU-15 and the new member states has arrived. [...] segue https://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/wp_13_2007.pdf
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The day of accession (01.05.2004) of Hungary to the European Union was much more a political hallmark of the process of integration into the European economic and political structures, which started more than ten years earlier than an economic cut-off point. This integration process was gradual and progressively extended to more and more areas of the economic and political activities of the country in the course of more than a decade.
The EU’s commitment in the field of non-proliferation runs deep and has made significant contributions to the peace and stability Europe has enjoyed since the end of the Second World War. The most advanced instruments for European political cooperation have been used in this delicate sector.
Turkey completed the 1990s with the slogan “the 21st Century Will Be the Turkish Century”. It made progress in many areas, not least of all coming to terms with globalisation.
On 15th December 2006, the EU summit took the decision to suspend eight of the 35 chapters that form the agenda for Turkey’s accession negotiations. While the move was finely judged, in that it avoided the long feared “train crash” in ties, it was a public demonstration of the choppiness of the bilateral relationship. As such, the decision soured what [...] segue https://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/wp_11_2007.pdf
The migration field has witnessed a remarkable shift in orientation, particularly among those countries apart from the four traditional migration countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Ten, even five years ago, the migration field was dominated by concerns about out-of-control migration flows, about the migration-asylum nexus, and about sealing borders [...] segue https://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/wp_10_2006.pdf
Virtually every political order has had to deal with the problem of pluralism. The existence of different groups with their own claims to political autonomy has been a challenge for many states and some have been more successful than others in recognizing the claims of competing groups. This has been in particular a problem for the European Union, which was initially an intergovernmental organization aimed at fostering the national interests of its members.
Les négociations pour l’adhésion de la Turquie ont commencé début octobre 2005. Il est prévu selon beaucoup, qu’elles durent près de dix ans.
Before one proceeds from the assumption that international custom is a recognised source of international law one should pause to determine whether this expression still has the meaning commonly accepted by most jurists at the time they were students – and never questioned thereafter. We are sometimes warned that customary norms in the international sphere are not anymore what they used to be, and that the formation of customary law has undergone important changes.
In the years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) had laid the foundation for a system of international human rights protection in 1947, priority was given first to the protection of refugees, and then to defining the rights of citizens. Concern for the human rights of migrants has been a more recent development. [...] segue https://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/wp_9_2006.pdf