PAPERS
Michael S. Knoll, “The UBIT: Leveling an Uneven Playing Field or Tilting a Level One?” (October 31, 2007)
Link to abstract and full citation: http://lsr.nellco.org/upenn/wps/papers/191/
Download Paper: http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1196&context=upenn/wps
Michael S. Knoll, “The Taxation of Private Equity Carried Interests: Estimating the Revenue Effects of Taxing Profit Interests as Ordinary Income” (August 16, 2007)
Link to abstract and full citation: http://lsr.nellco.org/upenn/wps/papers/172/
Download Paper: http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1176&context=upenn/wps
Mitchell Kane and Edward B. Rock, “Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition” (August 2, 2007)
Link to abstract and full citation: http://lsr.nellco.org/upenn/wps/papers/168/
Download Paper: http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=upenn/wps
Lily Batchelder, “Taxing Privilege More Effectively: Replacing the Estate Tax with an Inheritance Tax” (July 24, 2007)
Link to abstract and full citation: http://lsr.nellco.org/nyu/lewp/papers/100/
Download Paper: http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1104&context=nyu/lewp
Brian H. Jenn, “The Case for Tax Credits” (May 3, 2007)
Link to abstract and full citation: http://lsr.nellco.org/yale/ylsspps/papers/10/
Download the Paper: http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=yale/ylsspps
Anne Alstott, “Equal Opportunity and Inheritance Taxation” (February 18, 2007
Link to abstract and full citation: http://lsr.nellco.org/yale/fss/papers/8/
Download the Paper: http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=yale/fss
Daniel N. Shaviro, “Disclosure and Civil Penalty Rules in the U.S. Legal Response to Corporate Tax Shelters” (January 9, 2007)
Link to abstract and full citation: http://lsr.nellco.org/nyu/lewp/papers/83/
Download the Paper: http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1087&context=nyu/lewp
Michael S. Knoll, “Taxes and Competitiveness” (December 14, 2006)
Link to abstract and full citation: http://lsr.nellco.org/upenn/wps/papers/136/
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http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=upenn/wps
Constructions sur le terrain d’autrui – Bonne foi – Portée. (*)
Aux termes de l’article 555, alinéa 4, du code civil, si les plantations, constructions et ouvrages ont été faits par un tiers évincé qui n’aurait pas été condamné, en raison de sa bonne foi, à la restitution des fruits, le propriétaire ne pourra exiger la suppression desdits ouvrages, constructions et plantations, mais il aura le choix de rembourser au tiers soit une somme égale à celle dont le fonds a augmenté de valeur, soit le coût des matériaux et le prix de la main-d’oeuvre estimés à la date du remboursement, compte tenu de l’état dans lequel se trouvent lesdites constructions, plantations et ouvrages.
Doit être considéré comme étant de bonne foi le gendre en instance de divorce auquel ses beaux-parents avaient consenti un prêt à usage du terrain et qui a été autorisé par le prêteur à y construire des bâtiments d’élevage. Par conséquent, la demande de démolition des constructions doit être rejetée et, par application de l’article 555, alinéa 4, du code civil, le propriétaire doit une indemnité à l’emprunteur constructeur.
C.A. Saint-Denis de la Réunion (ch. civ.), 6 octobre 2006 – R.G. n° 05/01014.
M. Ray, Pt. – M. Gros et Mme Jouanard, conseillers.
Sur la définition du constructeur de bonne foi, à rapprocher :
- 3e Civ., 1er mars 1995, Bull. 1995, III, n° 68 (cassation) et l’arrêt cité ;
- 3e Civ., 12 juillet 2000, Bull. 2000, III, n° 45 (cassation) et les arrêts cités.
08-24
Contractele nu mai sunt contracte. Una e definitia, alta e realiatea. De ce nu putem vinde uzina de la Craiova la pretul unui nasture? De ce nu putem pune clauze abuzive in contracte? De ce Statele – toate statele – acorda subventii fabricilor strategice? De pun intrebari asa puerile, fata de legislatia noastra – care intrece orice masura a grotescului?
O legislatie absurda a inflorit, se numeste a protectiei consumatorului. O contrareforma e pe cale sa se nasca: este domeniul concurentei, un apendice la contractul ideal. Nimic mai absurd.
In fine, sa vedeti legislatie in Romania:
Ordin nr. 527 din 22 februarie 2008 privind persoanele competente să constate contravenţiile şi să aplice sancţiunile pentru nerespectarea măsurilor privind întărirea disciplinei contractuale
Iata ca prin ordin se vor descoperi ceva competenti – inspectori ANAF – si in Romania. Sa constate contraventii…in materie contractuala!
Stirea suna asa:
The court overturned a controversial law adopted in the western state of North-Rhine Westphalia in 2006 that gave intelligence agencies wide-ranging powers to hack into terror suspects’ computers.
“The law violates the right to privacy and is null and void,” the court said in a statement.
It added that Internet surveillance risked being a greater intrusion on privacy than telephone tapping and that it therefore had to close loopholes in legislation that did not take into account new technology and the central role it played in people’s lives.
But it ruled that in principle introducing software onto suspects’ computers to facilitate surveillance could be allowed in cases where “rights of supreme importance” were at stake.
The court said that in each case, the surveillance had to be approved by a judge, and that even then intelligence agencies would not be allowed to use the information if it pertains strictly to people’s private lives.
The court ruling came in response to a legal challenge to the North-Rhine Westphalia legislation brought by a left-wing opposition politician, three lawyers and a journalist.
Stirea intreaga aici (*).
Presedintele Curtii constitutionale federale din Germania a vorbit saptamana trecuta la Universitatea Humboldt (Berlin) si a luat in discutie o multime de aspecte interesante, de la rolul parlamentelor nationale (subsidiaritatea si mecanismele de avertizare timpurie etc.), la volumul imens de legislatie europeana, la rezerva facuta de Marea Britanie si Polonia la Carta drepturilor si – chiar – pana la celebra hotarare a CJCE in cauza Mangold.
Aici, EUObserver (*).
Cam despre asta este vorba intr-un articol recent, intitulat astfel:
Judging Judges: Do Judges Meet Their Constitutional Obligation to Settle Disputes in Conformity with ‘Principles of Justice and International Law’? (*)
scris de
ERNST-ULRICH PETERSMANN
European University Institute – Department of Law (LAW)
EUI LAW Working Paper No. 2008/01
Abstract:
This contribution argues that the universal recognition of human rights requires judges to take human rights more seriously in their judicial settlement of disputes “in conformity with the principles of justice and international law”, as prescribed in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Preamble VCLT) as well as in the UN Charter (Article 1). Section I explains the constitutional duty of judges to interpret law and settle disputes in conformity with principles of justice as increasingly defined by human rights. Section II argues that the “multilevel judicial governance” in Europe – notably between the European Community (EC) Court of Justice and its Court of First Instance, the EC courts and national courts, the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Court and national courts, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and national courts – was successful due to the fact that this judicial cooperation was justified as multilevel protection of constitutional citizen rights and, mainly for this reason, was supported as “just” by judges, citizens and parliaments. Section III concludes that the European “solange-method” of judicial cooperation “as long as” other courts respect constitutional principles of justice should be supported by citizens, judges, civil society and their democratic representatives also in judicial cooperation with worldwide courts and dispute settlement bodies. As explained in Section IV, in a world that continues to be dominated by power politics and by reasonable “constitutional pluralism”, it is easier for international judges to meet their obligation to settle disputes “in conformity with principles of justice” if courts cooperate and base their “judicial discourses” on “public reason”, respect for human rights and judicial protection of the constitutional principles underlying human rights law.
Why Liberals Should Enthusiastically Support Social Security Personal Accounts
Konstantin Magin
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Pension Reform as the Triumph of Form over Substance
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Letter: Magin Begs Liberals to Think Twice about Social Security Privatization—I Say, “Think Thrice”
Richard H. Serlin
Scris-am pe blogul nostru anterior despre hotarare (*) & despre continuarea istoriei in statul membru respectiv, Belgia (*).
Ei bine, uitat-am de un articol f. interesant al unei stele in devenire in materie, Jan Komarek, autor ceh si doctorand la Oxford, articol ce ar merita conspectat (*).
El se cheama astfel:
Legal Professional Privilege and the EU’s Fight Against Money Laundering
Si rezumatul:
The article comments on a recent judgment of the European Court of Justice in Case C-305/05, Ordre des barreaux francophones and germanophone & Others v Conseil des Ministres, where the Court reviewed the legality of the obligation to inform and cooperate with competent authorities, which is imposed on the legal profession by Directive 91/308/EEC (the 1991 Directive) in respect of money laundering.The case comment is divided into four sections. First, it gives a brief comparison of the scope of LPP provided by the English courts and by the ECJ’s previous case law. Secondly, the context of the case is set out. Thirdly, it examines a particular problem that arose in the case, namely that too narrow a question was referred to the ECJ by the Belgian court. Because of this the ECJ was able to limit its review of the 1991 Directive’s legality to its compatibility with LPP in light of the right to a fair trial and the respect of rights of defence. As a necessary corollary the ECJ did not examine other aspects of the rationale which underlies LPP i.e., that it protects rights, such as the right to privacy and serves to fulfil a number of different aims i.e., better administration of justice or compliance with law. As a consequence the ECJ has left the exact scope of LPP in the EU ambiguous. This could lead to further difficulties, since it is not clear whether e.g. United Kingdom’s implementation of the Directive is compatible with its requirements.
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Da, totul a pornit de aici (*) Acum a aparut “raportul Coulon”, f. interesant de citit aici (*). Stirea (*) suna astfel: Rénovation du droit pénal des affaires : les 30 propositions du rapport Coulon |
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Le groupe de travail présidé par Jean-Marie Coulon, premier président honoraire de la cour d’appel de Paris, a remis au garde des Sceaux, le 20 février, son rapport consacré à la dépénalisation de la vie des affaires dont certaines propositions seront traduites dans un projet de loi (V. CDE 2008, entretien 1 ; Dr. pén. 2008, dossier 4). |
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Ca sa ne exprimam americaneste: “wanna bet?!” Articolul mai amplu, aici (CNA). In continuare, fragmente:
NY bill to declare abortion a “fundamental right” could threaten religious freedom
The bill, called the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act, was drafted by the administration of Governor Eliot Spitzer. Signaling that the bill’s passage is a top priority for his administration, Gov. Spitzer recently called for its passage in his January State of the State address, while his wife Silda Wall delivered a speech dedicated to the legislation at a gathering marking the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
The legislation would establish abortion as a fundamental right for pregnant women prior to fetal viability and in later stages if the woman’s health is at risk. Abortion regulations would be removed from state penal law to public health law. The authority to perform abortions would also be extended beyond physicians to “qualified licensed health care providers.”
The part of the law that most concerns opponents is a section stating, “the state shall not discriminate against the exercise of the rights … in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information.”
Edward Mechmann, a legal coordinator for the Archdiocese of New York, said the bill would infringe on the freedoms of Catholic organizations. “If they grant us a license, which is a state action, they will be discriminating,” he said, according to the New York Sun. “The right to abortion would have more protection under New York’s law than the right to free exercise of religion.”
Spitzer administration officials argued that existing “conscience clause” provisions in state law would protect Catholic hospitals and agencies from legal penalties.
According to a report in German daily Die Welt, politicians from the Left Party as well as Peter Gauweiler, a centre-right politician from one of governing parties -the CSU – are examining the text of the EU treaty to see if they can bring a case before the country’s constitutional court.
Their move could mean that the final formal step of ratification is delayed.
German MPs are widely expected to approve the treaty when it comes before parliament in May.
However, the text then needs to be signed off by the country’s president, Horst Kohler.
If Mr Gauweiler has put a case before the court, Mr Kohler will then have to decide whether to go ahead and sign off the treaty anyway or wait for the court to make its case.
Articolul complet aici (*).
Despre Kosovo s-a scris mult.
Citeam ieri un comentariu cam insipid (*). Tot ieri un comentariu, aparut in The Guardian, exprima cateva puncte valabile.
Kosovo’s sovereignty is a fiction: real power lies with EU officials backed by western firepower
There seemed to be no immediate consequences when, in 1908, Austria annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina. Vienna was in clear violation of the 1878 Treaty of Berlin, which it had signed and kept Bosnia in Turkey, yet the protests of Russia and Serbia were in vain. The following year, the fait accompli was written into an amended treaty. Six years later, however, a Russian-backed Serbian gunman exacted revenge by assassinating the heir to the Austrian throne in Sarajevo in June 1914. The rest is history.
Parallels between Kosovo in 2008 and Bosnia in 1908 are relevant, but not only because, whatever legal trickery the west uses to override UN security council resolution 1244 – which kept Kosovo in Serbia – the proclamation of the new state will have incalculable long-term consequences: on secessionist movements from Belgium to the Black Sea via Bosnia, on relations with China and Russia, and on the international system as a whole. They are also relevant because the last thing the new state proclaimed in Pristina on Sunday will be is independent. Instead, what has now emerged south of the Ibar river is a postmodern state, an entity that may be sovereign in name but is a US-EU protectorate in practice.
The European Union plans to send some 2,000 officials to Kosovo to take over from the United Nations, which has governed the province since 1999. It wants to appoint an International Civilian Representative who – according to the plan drawn up last year by Martti Ahtisaari, the UN envoy – will be the “final authority” in Kosovo with the power to “correct or annul decisions by the Kosovo public authorities”. Kosovo would have had more real independence under the terms Belgrade offered it than it will now.
Those who support the sort of “polyvalent sovereignty” and “postnational statehood” that we already have in the EU welcome such arrangements as a respite from the harsh decisionism of post-Westphalian statehood. But such fictions are in fact always underpinned by the timeless realities of brute power. There are 16,000 Nato troops in Kosovo and they have no intention of coming home: indeed, they are even now being reinforced with 1,000 extra troops from Britain. They, not the Kosovo army, are responsible for the province’s internal and external security.
Kosovo is also home to the vast US military base Camp Bondsteel, near Urosevac – a mini-Guantánamo that is only one in an archipelago of new US bases in eastern Europe, the Balkans and central Asia. This is why the Serbian prime minister, Vojislav Kostunica, speaking on Sunday, specifically attacked Washington for the Kosovo proclamation, saying that it showed that the US was “ready to unscrupulously and violently jeopardise international order for the sake of its own military interests”.
In order to symbolise its status as the newest Euro-Atlantic colony, Kosovo has chosen a flag modelled on that of Bosnia-Herzegovina – the same EU gold, the same arrangement of stars on a blue background. For Bosnia, too, is governed by a foreign high representative, who has the power to sack elected politicians and annul laws, all in the name of preparing the country for EU integration.
As in Bosnia, billions have been poured into Kosovo to pay for the international administration but not to improve the lives of ordinary people. Kosovo is a sump of poverty and corruption, both of which have exploded since 1999, and its inhabitants have eked out their lives for nine years now in a mafia state where there are no jobs and not even a proper electricity supply: every few hours there are power cuts, and the streets of Kosovo’s towns explode in a whirring din as every shop and home switches on its generator.
This tragic situation is made possible only because there is a fatal disconnect in all interventionism between power and responsibility. The international community has micro-managed every aspect of the break-up of Yugoslavia since the EU brokered the Brioni agreement within days of the war in Slovenia in July 1991. Yet it has always blamed the locals for the results. Today, the new official government of Kosovo will be controlled by its international patrons, but they will similarly never accept accountability for its failings. They prefer instead to govern behind the scenes, in the dangerous – and no doubt deliberate – gap between appearance and reality.
· John Laughland is the author of Travesty: the Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice
Voiam sa semnalam de ceva timp un lucru interesant. Si anume modul in care avocatii generali se straduiesc sa fie convingatori in argumentare. Ei bine, un exemplu relativ recent, de anul trecut (20 martie, mai precis) este chiar pertinent; despre hotarare am facut mentiune aici (*).
In concluziile avocatului general Colomer in mentionatele cauze conexate, persoana cunoscuta deja pentru argumentarea constanta & convingatoare in favoarea acordarii unei preeminente clare, dublata de o autonomizare a continutului juridic, pentru cetatenia UE, in raport cu regimurile nationale (sociale, in primul rand, dar nu numai), se face o incursiune istorica in realitatea mobilitatii transnationale a studentilor, trecand de la Bagdad la Oxford & Sorbona…
Bine-bine, veti spune pe drept cuvant, noi vrem sa fim concreti, lasati povestile astea. Ei bine, nu e chiar asa de bine. Atunci cand absolventii universitatilor, de la “noi”, dar si de la “ei”, in buna masura (n.b. mai nou, surprindem cu stupoare exprimarea unui adjectiv de genul “academic” pentru desemnarea unui sinonim mai vechi, adica “universitar”) nu cunosc exact cine a fost Anselm de Cantenbury ori Thomas Morus sau Pascal, insa pot recita (fara gres) numele fundasilor notabili de la echipele din “Champions League”, atunci exista o problema de perspectiva…
Asadar, cititi ce scrie dl. avocat general (*). In contextul in care circumstantele spetelor nu sunt iesite din comun pt. jurisprudenta anterioara a CJCE.
V – La mobilité des étudiants
Une constante historique
37. Bien que, selon Thomas More, l’instruction impartie dans sa propre langue «est riche, harmonieuse, fidèle interprète de la pensée» (14), la soif de savoir incite à aller chercher les sources, afin d’apprendre des plus érudits, quel que soit l’endroit où ils se trouvent et la langue dans laquelle ils enseignent. Ce désir engendre un flux d’élèves vers les maîtres, qui a été constaté à toutes les époques”
38. Dans l’Antiquité classique, parmi les centres qui ont attiré les personnes les plus diverses, rappelons l’Académie de Platon, le Lycée d’Aristote ou les écoles de Pythagore et d’Alexandrie, cette dernière fondée par Ptolémée Sôter au III siècle avant J.-C., où Euclide a brillé.39. À partir du IX siècle, avec l’épanouissement de la vie monastique, des salles sont apparues dans les couvents et les abbayes aux fins d’instruction des moines qui, sous de nombreuses latitudes, ont réservé une annexe externe à l’accueil d’autres disciples (Jarrow, Cork, Corbie, Richenau, Montecassino, …). En parallèle, les évêques et les chapitres ont créé, à l’ombre des cathédrales, des écoles épiscopales (Reims, Chartres, Cologne, Mayence, Vienne, Liège, …). Le monde arabe n’ignorait pas non plus le phénomène, car Bagdad et Cordoue, par exemple, ont constitué des cabinets d’études dotés de riches bibliothèques et d’observatoires astronomiques.
40. Aux alentours du XII siècle, l’enseignement a commencé à être donné par des personnes extérieures aux écoles religieuses. C’est ainsi qu’est née l’idée des universités, ouvertes à des étudiants et à des professeurs de nationalités distinctes, qui, se servant du latin comme lingua franca, aspiraient à communiquer et à transmettre des savoirs. La première université a été créée à Bologne, mais elles se sont ensuite étendues dans toute l’Europe (Paris, Palencia, Oxford, Montpellier, Salamanque, …) (15).
41. L’université a engendré une grande mobilité sociale. Les enfants des nobles, des bourgeois, des commerçants, des artisans et des paysans étaient admis, les difficultés économiques étant surmontées grâce aux bourses et aux prébendes. Toutefois, l’apparition des États nationaux et les guerres de religion ont amoindri le caractère œcuménique des débuts.
42. Ainsi, Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540) a exercé son activité à l’université de Valence, à la Sorbonne à Paris, à Bruges, à Louvain et à Oxford; Miguel Servet (1511-1553) a suivi des cours de droit à Toulouse, de médecine à Paris et à Montpellier, ainsi que de théologie à Louvain; David Hume (1711-1776) a étudié la littérature et la philosophie à Reims et en Anjou, puis, après deux ans à Paris, est rentré en Écosse, où il a refusé la chaire qui lui a été offerte; Karl Marx (1818-1883) s’est formé à l’université de Bonn, mais il a vécu à Paris, à Bruxelles et à Londres, exerçant une influence intellectuelle profonde.
43. Parmi ces voyageurs du savoir, Érasme de Rotterdam (1469-1536) a une place privilégiée. Il a étudié à l’université de Paris, a été précepteur du fils du roi d’Écosse Jacques II, a obtenu son doctorat en théologie à Bologne, déclinant l’invitation du pape Léon X à rester à Rome. Il est parti en Angleterre, où il a été bien reçu par Henri VIII et a eu des contacts avec John Colet et Thomas More. Il a exercé en tant que professeur résident titulaire de théologie à Cambridge. Il a travaillé dans la maison d’édition d’Aldus Manutius à Venise. Il a gagné le respect de l’empereur Charles Quint, également roi d’Espagne, qui l’a nommé conseiller de Flandres (16). Il s’est installé quelque temps à Fribourg et s’est retiré à Bâle pour s’occuper de la publication de ses œuvres (17). Sa vie fait rêver aujourd’hui, démontrant que, à la fin du Moyen-Âge, l’Europe n’avait pas de frontières pour la vie intellectuelle et n’était pas compartimentée par des différences linguistiques, qui, sans nier la valeur culturelle qu’elles représentent, appauvrissent l’échange d’idées et la progression vers une union plus étroite et plus engagée des peuples de ce continent. Le mythe d’Érasme apporte une lueur d’espoir pour surmonter ces barrières (18).
Speta:
Internet sex auction sparks paternity row
BERLIN (Reuters) – A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court battle to force the Web site that hosted the sale to reveal the names of the winners, so she can find out who’s the father.
Six different men won Internet auctions to have sex with the woman in April and May last year. They were only known to her by their online names, a spokesman for a court in the southwestern city of Stuttgart said Wednesday.
“The woman wanted to discover which one of the men had made her pregnant,” the spokesman said. “So she needed their contact details. Of course, if they’re not willing to go along with the gene test, she’ll have to take them to court.”
The woman asked the site’s operator to reveal the true identity of the men, but it refused, citing a confidentiality clause in its terms and conditions.
The court ruled in her favor, saying the child’s right to know who its father was took precedence.
The court declined to give the woman’s age and nationality.
Sursa (*).
Un articol mai vechi, insa f. interesant.
Case Note: Towards a Liberalisation of Standing Conditions for Individuals Seeking Judicial Review of Community Acts: Jego-Quere Et Cie Sa V Commission and Union De Pequenos Agricultores V Council (*)
This note analyses two important cases of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and European Court of First Instance (CFI) regarding standing to bring judicial review action against European Community (EC) regulations. It adresses standing issues in a ‘Communaute de droit’, presents the state of the art before the two decisions (i.e. confusing case law, limited standing), exposes the revolutionary reasoning of the CFI, analyses the criterion of ‘definite and immediate adverse effects’ proposed by the CFI, compares it with the Advocate General’s ’substantial adverse effects’ test, and standing requirements in domestic courts of the Member States, before considering the risk of litigation flood and the possibility to shift the center of gravity of judicial review of Community acts from admissibility to substantive issues. It investigates the question of the desirability of uniform standing rules for judicial review, and assesses the ECJ decision which indirectly overturned the CFI’s ruling as muddying the waters rather than clarifying the case law on standing. It concludes on the use of the Charter of fundamental rights to relax standing conditions in the European Union.
Doua articole ale dnei. Jo Shaw (*) despre cetatenia UE & implicatiile politice ale acesteia…
Citizenship and Constitutionalism in the European Union – what role for political rights? (*)
E.U. Citizenship and Political Rights in an Evolving European Union (*)
GEOFFREY EDWARDS and CHRISTOPH O. MEYER, Introduction: Charting a Contested Transformation, JCMS, 1/2008
RAPHAEL BOSSONG, The Action Plan on Combating Terrorism: A Flawed Instrument of EU Security Governance, JCMS, 1/2008.
BJÖRN MÜLLER-WILLE, The Effect of International Terrorism on EU Intelligence Co-operation, JCMS, 1/2008
THIERRY BALZACQ, The Policy Tools of Securitization: Information Exchange, EU Foreign and Interior Policies, JCMS, 1/2008.
MONICA DEN BOER, CLAUDIA HILLEBRAND and ANDREAS NÖLKE, Legitimacy under Pressure: The European Web of Counter-Terrorism Networks, JCMS, 1/2008
DANIEL KEOHANEThe Absent Friend: EU Foreign Policy and Counter-Terrorism, JCMS, 1/2008.
GEORGE JOFFÉ, The European Union, Democracy and Counter-Terrorism in the Maghreb, JCMS, 1/2008
ELSPETH GUILD, The Uses and Abuses of Counter-Terrorism Policies in Europe: The Case of the ‘Terrorist Lists’, JCMS, 1/2008
ANTJE WIENER, European Responses to International Terrorism: Diversity Awareness as a New Capability?, JCMS, 1/2008
STEPHEN WHITE, JULIA KOROSTELEVA and IAN MCALLISTER, A Wider Europe? The View from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, JCMS, 2/2008
IAN DEWING and PETER O. RUSSELL, Financial Integration in the EU: the First Phase of EU Endorsement of International Accounting Standards, JCMS, 2/2008.
GEORGE TSEBELIS, Thinking about the Recent Past and the Future of the EU, JCMS, 2/2008.
GERDA FALKNER and OLIVER TREIB, Three Worlds of Compliance or Four? The EU-15 Compared to New Member States, JCMS, 2/2008
CLAUDIO M. RADAELLI and ULRIKE S. KRAEMER, Governance Areas in EU Direct Tax Policy, JCMS, 2/2008
THOMAS KÖNIG, STEPHANIE DAIMER and DANIEL FINKE, The Treaty Reform of the EU: Constitutional Agenda-Setting, Intergovernmental Bargains and the Presidency’s Crisis Management of Ratification Failure, JCMS, 2/2008
GEOFFREY PRIDHAM, The EU’s Political Conditionality and Post-Accession Tendencies: Comparisons from Slovakia and Latvia, JCMS, 2/2008
GEORGE ROSS, What do ‘Europeans’ Think? Analyses of the European Union’s Current Crisis by European Elites, JCMS, 2/2008
KENNETH ARMSTRONG, IAIN BEGG and JONATHAN ZEITLIN, JCMS Symposium: EU Governance After Lisbon, JCMS, 2/2008
RICHARD ROSE, Political Communication in a European Public Space: Language, the Internet and Understanding as Soft Power, JCMS, 2/2008.
Cf. Euractiv (*):
“Infringement proceedings begun against Germany over Berlin’s failure to bring provisions on equal treatment of gay and lesbian partnerships in line with EU directives on the issue are going down badly with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats”.
Printre altele si problema fierbinte:
“Equal rights for homosexual couples. The “registered lifetime partnership” which gays and lesbians can enter into does not bestow the same privileges as marriage, which remains an option available to heterosexual couples only. For example, it does not offer officials the same entitlement to higher pay as under heterosexual marriages and people living in such partnerships are not entitled to receive part of their partner’s pension when he or she dies”.
Trecand peste faptul ca in comunicatele de presa (*) (*) nu se mentioneaza respectiva problema, ei bine, trebuie urmarit cum se va intampla asta in fata CJCE. Si ma refer aici la varietatea regimurilor matrimoniale evidentiata anterior si asupra careia nu exista un consens intre statele membre. Sau se va aborda o incercare centralista?
Despre problematica respectiva se poate scrie inteligent si, parerea noastra, miscarea respectiva ar fi gresita. Vom reveni alta data cu mai multe discutii.
Citesti si te minunezi. Are dreptate A. Besancon cand condamna progresismul in Biserica romano-catolica; precum se vede atitudinea respectiva inca e la moda. Astazi despre post (Postul Pastelui) ca “ramadan crestinesc”….
.- Saying that many Holland residents are unfamiliar with Lent and its practices of self-denial, some Dutch Catholics are calling the Lenten fast the “Christian Ramadan,” the Daily Telegraph reports.
Some Catholic leaders hope that linking Lent and Ramadan will remind less observant Christians of the “spirituality and sobriety” of Lent.
The Catholic charity Vastenaktie, which holds collections for the Third World all across the Netherlands during Lent, said the liturgical season leading up to Easter needed a more relevant reference point.
“The image of the Catholic Lent must be polished. The fact that we use a Muslim term is related to the fact that Ramadan is a better-known concept among young people than Lent,” said Vastenaktie Director, Martin Van der Kuil, told the Daily Telegraph.
During their month-long observance of Ramadan, Muslim believers forgo all food during the daytime and increase their prayer habits.
Catholic Lenten practices were once more ascetical than they are presently, which some attribute to changes that followed the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
Van der Kuil believed the name change would highlight similarities between Christianity and Islam.
“The agreements are more striking than the differences. Both for Muslims and Catholic faithful the values of frugality and spirituality play a central role in this tradition,” said Van der Kuil.
Four million Dutch describe themselves as Roman Catholics, while 400,000 attend Mass weekly. Van der Kuil said only a few tens of thousands still mark Lent by fasting.
Teoria dependentei de cale spune ca daca ai luat-o pe un drum gresit nu mai poti sa iesi de acolo daca majoritatea au luat-o in aceeasi directie.
De exemplu, sunt nu stiu cate studii care demonstreaza ca actuala asezare a tastaturii (asa-numita problema QWERTY) este proasta, dar ne-ar lua prea mult (timp, bani etc) sa o mai schimbam.
Sa citesti un articol pe aceasta tema referitor la societati poate fi dificil, dar rezultatul este redutabil. Ati ales o alta cale, ne-dependenta.
Lucian Bebchuk and Mark Roe, A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance, (October 7, 1999). Harvard Law School. Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics and Business Discussion Paper Series. Paper 266.
