Mapping novel psychoactive substances policy in the EU: The case of Portugal, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, the United Kingdom and Sweden

Shaping social competences of university graduates constitutes one of the most important contemporary challenges. The cognitive objectives of the Erasmus + DASCHE project, the selected results of which are presented in this article, were (1) to identify good practices in shaping social competences of students in selected higher education institutions, (2) to support public policies with regard to higher education at both European and national levels, as well as at higher education institutions (HEIs) in the area of designing, shaping and verifying students’ social competences and formulating recommendations in this regard. For these purposes, case studies at 26 selected HEIs were carried out within the project. This article presents an analysis of public policies in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Latvia, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom in the context of influence of these policies on whether and how HEIs shape students’ social competences and whether HEIs are obliged, encouraged or supported by legal regulations and other instruments in this regard. The research shows a large diversity of national public policies in this respect and - with the widespread recognition by the academic staff of the importance of shaping student attitudes - a significant lack of intentional actions leading to shaping students’ competences at the national, institutional and European level.

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The ParlSpeech V2 data set: Full-text corpora of 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of nine representative democracies

10.31235/osf.io/cd2qs ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Christian Rauh ◽

Jan Schwalbach

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Czech Republic ◽

New Zealand ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Full Text ◽

Data Set ◽

Meta Data ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Text Corpora

ParlSpeech V2 contains complete full-text vectors of more than 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, covering periods between 21 and 32 years. Meta-data include information on date, speaker, party, and partially agenda item under which a speech was held. This release note provides a more detailed guide to the data.

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Recitals

Unified Patent Protection in Europe: A Commentary ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198755463.003.0026 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Christoph Keussen

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Czech Republic ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Member States ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The United Kingdom

Pursuant to Decision 2011/167/EU, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, France, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (hereinafter ‘participating Member States’) were authorised to establish enhanced...

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Age Equality after the Employment Directive

Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law ◽

10.1177/1023263x0301000102 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 9-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Helen Meenan

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Age Discrimination ◽

Member States ◽

Eu Member States ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Life Course Approach ◽

The Usa ◽

The Individual ◽

The Eu

This article examines the Employment Directive from the age perspective and endorses a life course approach to ageing. It explores the permitted exclusions on grounds of age and especially the exceptional justification for direct age discrimination, contained in Article 6. In the end, EU Member States may find it more difficult to successfully transpose Article 6 than they imagine. The article reveals special challenges for age and refers to age laws in Ireland and the USA, in particular. It also refers to preparations for transposition in a number of Member States, including the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Whether and to what extent age will ultimately receive the least protection of all the new grounds, remains to be seen and will depend largely on the individual approaches of the Member States. The ultimate consequence of the additional opportunities for excluding or justifying age discrimination may well be different protected areas throughout the EU.

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First Record of Horidiplosis ficifolii Harris 2003 (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in the Czech Republic

Plant Protection Science ◽

10.17221/53/2009-pps ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 46 (No. 4) ◽

pp. 189-191

Author(s):

J. Beránek ◽

I. Šafránková

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Czech Republic ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Gall Midge ◽

First Record ◽

Tropical Species ◽

South East Asia ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Ficus Microcarpa

In November 2009 the gall midge species Horidiplosis ficifolii Harris 2003 was detected in the Czech Republic on leaves of an ornamental fig Ficus microcarpa. The insect is native to South East Asia, where it lives on the genus Ficus. No information is currently available on the prevalence of the pest in the countries of its origin. Imported Ficus plants from China into the Netherlands are sometimes heavily infested with the gall midge. In Europe it is also known from Denmark and the United Kingdom. As Horidiplosis ficifolii is a tropical species, no environmental and social damage is expected.

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The ParlSpeech data set: Annotated full-text vectors of 3.9 million plenary speeches in the key legislative chambers of seven European states

10.31235/osf.io/c5gdm ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christian Rauh ◽

Pieter de Wilde ◽

Jan Schwalbach

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Czech Republic ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Full Text ◽

Data Set ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The United Kingdom

ParlSpeech contains full-text vectors of more than 3.9 million plenary speeches in the key legislative chambers of the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, covering periods between 22 and 28 years. Speeches are annotated with date, speaker and party. This release note provides a more detailed guide to the data.

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EUROPEAN UNION´S SUGAR MARKET CONCENTRATION UNDER THE SUGAR QUOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM

Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference Rural Development 2015 ◽

10.15544/rd.2015.110 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Ľuboš SMUTKA ◽

Helena ŘEZBOVÁ ◽

Patrik ROVNÝ

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Quota System ◽

Eu Member States ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Sugar Market ◽

Current Production ◽

High Dynamic ◽

Production Capacities ◽

Very High ◽

The Eu

The European sugar beet quota system is in very high dynamic process in recent years. The number of sugar companies involved in this system has been constantly decreasing. The aim of this paper is to define subjects (companies/alliances), which possess the current production capacities working under the production quotas system. The paper is determining especially the level of beet sugar production quota holder system concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. The paper provides the following findings. The European quota holder system is extremely concentrated and it is becoming more and more dominated by fewer players. Sugar quota is distributed among 19 EU-Member States. In this regard, the quota is generous, especially in relation to France, Germany, Poland and United Kingdom. In Finland, Lithuania, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Slovakia and the United Kingdom controlled by two or even one subject (companies, alliances). There is a large discrepancy between political efforts to distribute equitable R 1308/2013-sugar quotas among states and the actual reality of those distributions. While the EU-quota holder system does not indicate an extreme concentration, an analysis according to the headquarters´ location and allocated quotas to owners of production capacities provides the evidence of extreme concentration.

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