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The symbolic representation of Europe from the Conservatives' point of view
2021
International audience; The symbolic representation of Europe from the Conservatives’ point of view“Parliament matters” Norton once wrote. It does indeed, parliamentary debates involve agenda-setting, opinion-building, decision-making affecting the political, social and cultural spheres of the country. The confrontational nature of those debates is the opportunity for parties and leaders to impose their views by persuading the public that their policy on big issues is the most efficient. Europe has been one of those significant issue ; landmark events in the construction of Europe have been passionately and lengthily discussed in Parliament : the Maastricht Treaty, the single currency, the …
Transnational Political Activities of the Swedish Finn Youth Organization
2017
This article looks at the Swedish Finn Youth Organization’s transnational political activities, and how they have developed. In the beginning, the youth organization modelled itself after its mother organization and joined the Finnish Expatriate Parliament (FEP), which made its participation in transnational practices easy. The case study of the Swedish Finn Youth Organization in Stockholm, Sweden, demonstrates that if the younger generation is given an opportunity to establish and govern their own associations, new forms of organization can be expected. The younger generation has distinguished itself from the older generation’s associations by cooperating with other minorities and taking m…
Eurosceptic Attitudes Towards the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Who are the Trendsetters and Followers?
2020
Since the Hooghe et al.(2002) publication about party positions on European integration, a comparison of radical right and radical left Eurosceptic parties is not often conducted. In literature about Euroscepticism, the image of the horseshoe or “inverted U” illustrates the orientation of Euroscepticism among parties without any deeper analysis. This paper tries fill the research gap by investigating whether these two Eurosceptic groups are distinct from each other in the area of EU trade policy by analyzing the debate surrounding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Using European Parliament debates about this EU-US partnership, the author tries give answers to the fo…
Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and its Impact on Malta’s Financial Service Industry
2016
The introduction of the Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM Directive 2011/61/EU) in 2013 means a radical transformation of the EU regulatory landscape for the whole alternative investment fund industry. Taking into account the growing meaning of the alternative investment fund industry in Europe, the aim of the paper is to assess the impact the Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMD) will have on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) managing Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in the EU. The research is based on the case of Malta, which is a quickly growing financial centre. The main findings are based on an analysis of questionnaire respon…
A new political elite in France : the end of professionalization ?
2020
Actes du projet Parcit (Participation et citoyenneté), financé par les MSH Dijon et Besançon, co-dirigé par A. Alexandre-Collier, D. Andolfatto et A. Goujon, 2017-2019; International audience; Who governs? It is this classic question in political science (Dahl, 1961) that this chapter seeks to answer. It is based on a tradition of studying parliamentary elites (Best & Cotta, 2000 & 2007 ; Norris, 1997). It proposes to analyze the sociological make up of the French National Assembly elected in June 2017. Of course, this is not the sociology of government in the strict sense of the executive power but that of the parliamentary Assembly elected by direct universal suffrage and supposed to adop…
An Overview of Attitude Towards Selected Aspects of Electoral Programs of Polish Political Groups Taking Part in the 2014 Elections to the European P…
2017
Elections to the European Parliament (EP), because of its role in establishing the legal order in member states of the European Union (EU), should become increasingly crucial among all the direct elections in which Poles participate in our country’s political system. But the results of analyses carried out by various research institutions indicate that, in Polish public opinion, the elections to the EP are the least important in terms of the meaning they have for Poles. Since the start of their organization, these elections have consistently come second (in terms of significance) to domestic elections – Presidential, Parliamentary, and local. Yet these elections, for many reasons, were act…
The concept of the Royal Prerogative in parliamentary debates on the deployment of military in the British House of Commons, 1982–2003
2014
The article will discuss how one political key concept, the Royal Prerogative, was discussed in the British House of Commons in relation to the right to deploy and use armed troops abroad during the period 1982-2003, a time when the role of the British Parliament in decisions to deploy and commit troops to an armed conflict abroad was under extensive discussion in Parliament. This discussion began increasingly to address the state of the constitutional arrangements, more specifically the redefinition of the Royal Prerogative rights, the residual powers of the executive, as outdated in the understanding of modern representative democracy. The use of the concept was studied to reveal the atti…
Los efectos directos y colaterales de la disolución de Herri Batasuna
2005
Alexandre.Catala@uv.es La ilegalización de Herri Batasuna, Euskal Herritarrok y Batasuna (Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo de 27 de marzo de 2003) comportó una serie de consecuencias que son analizadas en el presente trabajo. En primer lugar, la estrategia de presentar en sucesivos comicios (elecciones municipales y autonómicas de 2003, elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 2004 y elecciones al Parlamento vasco de 2005) agrupaciones electorales que no eran más que continuación de aquéllos con la clara intención de burlar la aplicación de la Ley Orgánica de Partidos Políticos y perpetuar así su actividad. En segundo lugar, la polémica sobre la disolución del grupo parlamentario correspondiente e…
L’INSINDACABILITÀ FRA EQUILIBRIO DEI POTERI ED UGUAGLIANZA DEI DIRITTI
2010
RESUMEN El Estado italiano ha sido condenado por el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos por la violación del artículo 6.1 del Convenio, en todos aquellos casos relativos a la prerogativa de la inviolabilidad (insindacabilità) parlamentaria prevista en el artículo 68.1 de la Constitución. Atendiendo al dato apuntado, puede afirmarse que la necesaria garantía del principio de separación de poderes, en tanto que elemento esencial de la “arquitectura constitucional” viene a colisionar con la protección de los derechos fundamentales, al desconocer las exigencias derivadas del principio de proporcionalidad. El caso de la inviolabilidad italiana parece desviarse, por lo que a su aplicación se ref…
Juridiskā zinātne, Nr. 9
2016
Journal “Law” of the University of Latvia iis financed by the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia. The Journal No. 9 is financed by the project of Latvian Council of Science “The Experience, Lessons and International Importance of the Restoration of Latvia’s Independent Statehood (Historical, Political and Legal Aspects)”