The Concept of Common Good in the European Union

2014 ◽  
pp. 103-109
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The European Union

The European Union in Nice: A Minimalist Approach to a Historic Challenge

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karlheinz Neunreither
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The European Union ◽  
National Interests ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
National Leaders ◽  
The Eu

In Early December 2000 The Political Leaders Of The European Union (EU) met in Nice in order to decide on the treaty adaptations needed before the enlargement envisaged for the next decade. The overall goal was to render the EU more efficient and its decision making more transparent. The outcome of this important event was widely considered as disappointing. Some observers even came to the conclusion that there were no leaders of the EU as such, but only rather narrow-minded, egotistical national leaders who did not – with minor exceptions – care about the ‘common good’ at all. Never had it become so evident, in the opinion of some, that the European perspective had been fading away for many years, and that it was being replaced by national considerations which are often short-sighted and limited to the horizon of the next national elections. One of the classical theories on European integration, neo-functionalism, measures the progress of integration in terms of the Europeanization of its political elites. From this perspective, the top decision-makers seem to be on a downward trend. Is it then a case for the opposite theory, that of intergovernmentalism, which claims that national interests continue to be in the centre of EU decision-making and that tough bargaining is of its very nature?

scholarly journals Debating Future Harmonization of European Union VAT Regulations: Protests Among Swedish Nonprofit Organizations

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Wallman Lundasen
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
The Eu

The article discusses how the introduction of common European Union tax (VAT) regulations may affect the voluntary sector in Sweden. Historically nonprofit organizations in Sweden have enjoyed tax exemption given that their activities are considered to be of a common good purpose. The Commission of the European Union considers the tax exemption to be too generous in the case of Sweden and that it may distort competition in the free market. The protests are analyzed through a historical institutionalism framework where the Swedish paradigm for the voluntary sector is seen as deeply embedded in a specific institutional setting. The EU policy is interpreted by many nonprofit actors as threatening the existing institutional setting.

Law, Gender and Religious Belief in Europe: Considerations from a Catholic Perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-174
Author(s):  
Adriana Opromolla
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Level ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Family Issues ◽  
The Church

In the teaching of the Catholic Church, the institution of marriage derives directly from God, for common good and for the good of spouses and children. Human authorities are called upon not to transform its characteristics and to avoid any attempts to distort them. However, the Church is today confronted with a changing understanding of the notion of ‘gender’ and with new considerations about the meaning of ‘marriage’ on behalf of parts of society and of political institutions. Based on an overview of the recent legislative and political proposals concerning family issues at the European level, this article aims to assess what model of family the Member States of the European Union are developing, and how the traditional concept of marriage could be influenced by this evolution.

PUBLIC SERVICE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 120-130
Author(s):  
A.M. VAFIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
The Common

The article analyzes the normative documents of the European Union concerning the phenomenon of public service. The analysis is built not as a strict legal interpretation, but as a qualitative political analysis. The legal side of this work is only a descriptive form, while the political content concerns the question of values, first of all, the value of serving the common good, the dogma that an official should and must serve society. The author concerns that even in non-ideological states there are ideologies (non-political ideologies) that, in the case of officialdom, bureaucracy, manifest themselves as an ideology of service, service to society and the common good. The codes of European officials are also analyzed in the article, the norms regulating corruption issues, the political participation of officials, their education and cultural level.

scholarly journals Dobro wspólne czy interesy?

Politeja ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1(64)) ◽  
pp. 205-232
Author(s):  
Tomasz Homa
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
European Thought

The Common Good or the Interest? In Search for the Founding Stones of the Modern Society: Case Study – European Union The philosophical reflection on the common good, as one of the primary normative principles, and in this sense also the “founding stones” of a well-structured social life, has a multifaceted, diverse range of proposed approaches and solutions and a well-documented output. Bearing in mind the centuries-long theoretical and practical importance and validity of this concept in the European thought and practice of socially and politically organized collective life, the subject of my reflections is to raise the question of the cognitive and normative importance and validity of this concept for today’s Europe in the context of the European Union project contained in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, signed on October 29, 2004 in Rome.

scholarly journals FROM SPECIALITY TO A CONSTITUTIONAL SENSE OF PURPOSE: ON THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE OBJECTIVES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 935-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris Larik
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
And Function ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Eu

AbstractAfter the Lisbon Treaty, the objectives of the European Union are more numerous and ambitious than ever. But what is their importance and function within the ‘thickening’ legal order of the EU? Combining insights from both the law of international organizations and comparative constitutional law, the article traces the diverging role of objectives for, on the one hand, a traditional international organization marked by the principle of ‘speciality’ and, on the other, a maturing legal order increasingly exhibiting ‘constitutional’ traits. It argues that in the case of the EU, objectives and competences have developed into two related but distinct norm categories. While objectives serve to bolster arguments to shape such powers, they no longer represent a rationale in their own right for founding competences. The EU no longer justifies its existence solely by striving for a particular set of goals. Rather, these norms represent an entrenched duty to pursue these objectives through the actors, structures and procedures available, regardless of the Union's ultimate form (finalité). Today, the EU stands for certain values and has been endowed with powers, the exercise of which is guided by promoting these various aspects of the ‘common good’.

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