World Diplomacy of the European Parliament

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 121-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davor Jančić
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Treaty Rights ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The World

This article examines the role of the European Parliament in ensuring democratic participation in European Union external relations and global governance. Although the Lisbon Treaty has reinforced the European Parliament’s foreign affairs prerogatives, many obstacles hinder its influence. This prompts the European Parliament to invest considerable institutional resources not only to counterbalance the Commission and the Council and reduce information asymmetry, but also to enhance its posture on the world stage through value-oriented and region-oriented parliamentary diplomacy. The article argues that by conducting world diplomacy, the European Parliament generates critical mass for its institutional empowerment by a crafty application of its treaty rights, by means of non-legislative instruments, and by establishing bilateral and multilateral diplomatic contacts with parliamentary and executive bodies worldwide. The European Parliament thereby attempts to portray itself as an actor without which decisions cannot be made.

The European Parliament in EC external Relations, From the Inception of European Political Cooperation to the Single European Act

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Umberto TULLI
Keyword(s):  
European Parliament ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Member States ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Political Cooperation ◽  
Single European Act ◽  
Supranational Institutions ◽  
Rights Issues

European Political Cooperation represented one of the most innovative and yet vague and contested areas of cooperation among EC Member States. As an intergovernmental practice that left no room for supranational institutions, it did not contemplate any formal role for the European Parliament (EP). Focusing on the EP and EPC after the 1979 elections, this article aims at making three points. First, it argues that direct elections gave the EP stronger political arguments to claim more powers but parliamentary demands on EPC were not different from those emerged already in the early Seventies. Second, given Member States’ resistance to parliamentary pressures, the EP developed some original initiatives in international affairs, in order to undermine the intergovernmental features of EPC. Parliamentary actions were particularly effective on human rights issues. Finally, it points out that with the signing of the Single European Act, the role of the EP in foreign affairs remained, at best, limited.

The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Foreign Policy Planning in Brazil (1949-2018)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Rogério de Souza Farias
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Policy Planning ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The World

Summary Policy planning has a long history in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs around the world. This article provides an overview of almost 70 years of this technique in Brazil’s Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty). I will argue that there has been a clear trade-off between predicting, preaching, disrupting and managing. Despite its failures, planning has been an important tool for coping with uncertainty and has provided coherence in foreign policy-making.

The Out-Migration Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Kristen Ghodsee ◽  
Mitchell A. Orenstein
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Young People ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Population Declines ◽  
The West ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
East European ◽  
The World ◽  
Migration Crisis

Chapter 8 discusses the significant negative social and economic impacts of the mass out-migration that many postsocialist countries have experienced since the lifting of the “Iron Curtain,” balanced with the positive impacts of remittances and circulation of talent and capital. It also explores the negative side of out-migration, suggesting that the mass exodus of young people has had significant deleterious impacts on a number of sending countries and that many migrants faced hostile, exploitative, and sometimes dangerous conditions in the West. The chapter points to the collapse of rural villages and brain drain as having catastrophic prospects for the postsocialist world. This chapter highlights the role of European Union accession in 2004 as a possible contributor to Central and East European countries experiencing the sharpest population declines in the world and the largest peacetime migration in modern history measured as a percentage of sending country population.

Sustainable Agriculture The United States versus the European Union

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carson H. Varner ◽  
Katrin C. Varner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Genetically Modified Crops ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Population ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Sustainability Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Sides

This paper examines developing issues and attitudes that unite and divide the United States and the European Union as the discussion and regulation of agriculture evolves. While some terms, such as “organic,” are defined in law in both the United States and European Union, the increasingly used “sustainability” is an evolving concept. The main sustainability issue is how to provide food and fiber for a rapidly growing world population. In this context, the role of biotechnology is questioned. Americans tend to favor what are sometimes called genetically modified crops, while Europeans remain cautious. Europeans lean more toward organic farming, while Americans assert that much of the world will starve if organic methods are required. This paper reviews the directions that the discussion of these issues is taking and will show areas of agreement and where the two sides diverge.

On «particularity» and «exceptionalism» of the United States of America

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Vladimir F. Pecheritsa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World

The article analyzes the hegemonic policy of the largest and most influential state in the world – the United States, supported under the justified concept of “peculiarity” and exclusivity of America. Using this term, Washington imposes its only “correct” and necessary policy for the development of countries and peoples. Showing numerous examples, the author exposes the deceit and duplicity of such a policy, its rejection by most countries of the world. The article is intended for specialists in foreign affairs and those who study the place and role of the United States in the contemporary world.

The European Parliament's Role in EU Treaty-Making

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1009-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ott
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
National Parliaments ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
European Court ◽  
External Relations

The European Parliament's role in EU external relations and treaty-making has increased over the years through constitutional practice and Treaty amendments. Finally, with the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Parliament's constitutional rights in treaty-making establish – in the words of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) – ‘symmetry between legislation-making and treaty-making in compliance with institutional balance provided for by the Treaties’. In a comparative overview, the European Parliament has ascertained more extensive powers over treaty-making compared to the majority of national parliaments which are only involved in politically important international treaties. This contribution addresses the consequences of this symmetry or parallelism and asks whether it leads to structural symmetry or even procedural symmetry which synchronizes the acts of legislating and treaty-making with each other. This contribution analyses the role of the European Parliament in the different phases of international treaty-making against the backdrop of this constitutional practice. This constitutional practice is shaped by intergovernmental agreements, bilateral arrangements and European Parliament resolutions and is influenced by the mounting case law of the CJEU. It also assesses the European Parliament's role in concluding international administrative agreements concluded by the Commission and Europol and how far the constitutional practice is in line with EU primary law.

scholarly journals Rola Unii Europejskiej na arenie międzynarodowej według partii eurosceptycznych — nowy wymiar wspólnoty?

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 101-117
Author(s):  
Filip Tereszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
International Order ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Cooperation ◽  
International Activity

W artykule zostało omówione podejście partii eurosceptycznych, których członkowie zasiadają w Parlamencie Europejskim VIII kadencji, do kwestii polityki zagranicznej, a także ich wizja miejsca Unii w nowym układzie międzynarodowym. Autor prezentuje elementy łączące te ugrupowania stosunek do USA, Rosji, NATO, imigracji oraz obszary, które według nich mogłyby nadal być realizowane w ramach ogólnoeuropejskiej współpracy polityka współpracy rozwojowej, polityka klimatyczna. Na koniec została zaprezentowana wizja „eurosceptycznej tożsamości europejskiej”, która może stanowić podstawę do szukania roli, którą mniej lub bardziej zjednoczona Europa mogłaby odgrywać w nowym ładzie międzynarodowym w przypadku wzrastającego poparcia społecznego dla ugrupowań eurosceptycznych.The role of the European Union in the international arena by the Eurosceptic parties: A new dimension of the community?A Eurosceptical attitude towards EU foreign affairs and an EU position in a new international order is presented in the paper. The author concentrates on Eurosceptic parties whose members are sitting in the European Parliament 8th term. Elements which are common for these politicians are described the attitude toward US, Russia, NATO and immigration. Activities which, in the opinion of the Eurosceptic MEP, could be conducted in the framework of the European cooperation are identified development assistance, environmental policy. At the end we are presented with a “Eurosceptical European identity”, which could be a basis for the international activity of the more or less integrated Europe.

scholarly journals Post-Brexit Power of European Union From the World Trade Network Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Justin Loye ◽  
Katia Jaffrès-Runser ◽  
Dima L. Shepelyansky
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Matrix Analysis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Trade Network ◽  
Google Matrix ◽  
The World ◽  
Leading Position

We develop the Google matrix analysis of the multiproduct world trade network obtained from the UN COMTRADE database in recent years. The comparison is done between this new approach and the usual Import-Export description of this world trade network. The Google matrix analysis takes into account the multiplicity of trade transactions thus highlighting in a better way the world influence of specific countries and products. It shows that after Brexit, the European Union of 27 countries has the leading position in the world trade network ranking, being ahead of USA and China. Our approach determines also a sensitivity of trade country balance to specific products showing the dominant role of machinery and mineral fuels in multiproduct exchanges. It also underlines the growing influence of Asian countries.

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