Search results for "Accession"

Challenges of a Post-Communist Presidency: Vaira Vike-Freiberga and the Leadership of Latvia

2017

In 1999, Vaira Vikṃe-Freiberga became the first woman president elected in Latvia, as well as the first female executive to assume that office in the post-communist Central and East European region. She was elected by the democratic unicameral legislature and completed two terms in office. President Vikṃe-Freiberga enjoyed record-high-approval ratings and achieved significant political successes, overseeing the accession of Latvia to the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. As president, Vikṃe-Freiberga did not embrace an explicitly feminist agenda: faced with economic challenges in a newly capitalist country, societal challenges in a country with ethnic tensions betwe…

Stocktaking of EU Pre-Accession Monitoring Process, Citizenship Issnes and Non-Citizens in Estonia and Latvia: a Litmns Test for European Union Humau…

2004

Trade in Central and Eastern European countries ten years after their EU accession — Is there convergence?

2015

The paper focuses on the effects of EU’s Eastern Enlargement of 2004 on trade convergence within the EU and among the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE-8). Using sigma-convergence approach, it finds evidence of convergence of exports and imports per capita as well as of productivity levels associated with the member states’ export baskets. Convergence of territorial and commodity structures of trade has not occurred; conversely, divergence has been observed, leading to the possible conclusion that multinational companies have adjusted their production structure in facilities across the EU to achieve higher economies of scale. Correlation analysis shows that revealed com…

Melo

2015

Il Progetto Nazionale, “Liste di Orientamento Varietale dei Fruttiferi - Melo”, ha ormai abbondantemente superato i vent’anni. Ultimamente sta attraversando diverse peripezie, anche se mantiene invariato lo spirito originario, proponendosi come obiettivo la verifica del comportamento vegetativo e produttivo di numerose nuove varietà introdotte in Italia e divulgazione dei risultati ottenuti. Basti pensare che dal 1980 al 2014 sono state registrate al mondo quasi 1700 nuove varietà, il Progetto nazionale ne ha valutate più di 300 a partire dal 1993. Il lavoro di valutazione, riguardante l’”adattabilità”, agronomica e merceologica, del nuovo materiale genetico è affidato a 16 Unità Operative,…

Caratterizzazione e valorizzazione di Borago officinalis L. come specie da orto

2014

Integrating Governmentality: Administrative Expectations for Immigrant Associations in Finland

2007

From the first half of the 1990s, and especially after the accession to European Union in 1995, immigrant authorities and administration have emphasized the significance of immigrant associations in integration of immigrants in Finland. The purpose of the associations from the administrative perspective is to socialize and activate immigrant communities and individuals according to basic political rationalities, such as security of the society, happiness of the population and individuals, and cultural pluralism. On the one hand immigrant associations are technology through which integrative government of individuals and communities is implemented. On the other hand, associations themselves…

Through the Looking Glass: The Attitudes of Polish Political Parties towards the EU before and after Accession

2009

Abstract The objective of this paper is a comparison of the attitudes of parliamentary parties towards the European Union in terms of Poland's accession to the European Union. Therefore the parliamentary parties' attitudes after the elections in 2001 and 2005 have been analyzed and compared. Another significant aim of this paper is the identification of factors conditioning these attitudes as well as changes in them. The change from a candidate to a member of the EU forced the political parties to redefine their attitudes towards Europe since the character of the European issue itself also changed. This especially applies to those parties which strongly opposed Poland's accession to the EU.…

The Differences in Values Between Managers of the European Founding Countries, the New Members and the Applicant Countries:

2007

Advocates for a social Europe are worried that the accession of ex-Eastern Bloc countries into the European Community would lead European corporations to emphasize a financial orientation rather than a societal orientation. We examined this question in a study of the values orientations of 3,836 managers in 16 countries representing established EU, new EU, and candidate EU country groups. Within-Europe managerial values convergence was found in a relatively high openness to change and low self-enhancement values. However, we found divergent values such that managers in established EU countries were more self-transcendent and less conservative than their counterparts in new EU and candidate …

Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland

2015

A large proportion of European biodiversity today depends on habitat provided by low‐intensity farming practices, yet this resource is declining as European agriculture intensifies. Within the European Union, particularly the central and eastern new member states have retained relatively large areas of species‐rich farmland, but despite increased investment in nature conservation here in recent years, farmland biodiversity trends appear to be worsening. Although the high biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland has long been reported, the amount of research in the international literature focused on farmland biodiversity in this region remains comparatively ti…

L'accession à la propriété d'une maison individuelle : étude socio-juridique du contrat

1986

Directeur de la thèse : Philippe Fouchard; International audience