scholarly journals Technocracy and the Tragedy of EU Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Behr
Keyword(s):  
Policy Studies ◽  
Eu Governance ◽  
Ww Ii ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
The People ◽  
Double Edge ◽  
Double Edge Sword ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Eu

In a historical perspective, technocracy, emphasising bureaucratic and technical expertise in political, social and economic areas, is a double edge sword: on the one side, it guaranteed the condition for international cooperation post-WW II, providing as an ideologically neutral basis the condition for governance in a politically bitter international climate. On the other hand, it indicates the tragedy of increasing delegitimization of EU governance, causing the alienation of political willing from the peo-ple that is (mis-)used by populists present-day and their slogan ‘back to the people’. Technocracy is theoretically symbolised through the functionalism of EU integration, politically manifest in the re-definition of democracy from “input”- to “output”-orientation by e.g. Fritz Scharpf. The tragedy of EU politics being trapped in technocratic governance as condition of the possibility and calamity of coop-eration at the same time is analytically at the heart to understand contemporary approaches of EU (dis-)integration and identity. However, in both understanding alienation and (populist) opposition to the EU integration processes as systemic phenomena, deeply seeded in the structure of the EU and of EU policy studies themselves, as well as in suggesting a triangular democratic process to rectify the EU’s birth deficit, the paper significantly goes beyond current policy studies (e.g. on EU dis-integration) and their non-normative stance. These studies are still anchored in the epistemological commitments of neo-functionalism that need finally to be overcome as they tend to ignore the human factor and agency in politics.

‘The day after’

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-174
Author(s):  
Phedon Nicolaides
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Partial Solution ◽  
Double Edge ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
Double Edge Sword ◽  
Copy And Paste ◽  
Article 50 ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

The purpose of the two-year rule in Article 50 TEU is to prevent the remaining Member States from delaying the exit of the withdrawing Member State through stalling tactics. This article argues that the two-year period is a double-edge sword. It affords very little time to the withdrawing Member State to adjust its domestic legislation, regulatory system and administrative structure to be able to function effectively on the day after exit from the EU. The UK’s Great Repeal Bill proposes a ‘copy and paste’ approach. However, this approach is only a partial solution to the problem of the ‘exit-induced’ legal lacuna. With the use of two case studies, the article demonstrates that the UK will have to establish new regulatory procedures and redefine EU concepts inserted in national law. The UK will ‘regain control’ but will have to follow EU practice. At some point in the future it will also encounter the dilemma of diverging from EU practice and creating two sets of compliance standards for its companies.

scholarly journals Regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology

2022 ◽  
pp. 003072702110703
Author(s):  
Bart Gremmen
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Regenerative Agriculture ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Strong Concept ◽  
The Eu

As populations increase and economic affluence expand, conventional farmers will be unable to meet the demand for food. Two main scenarios offer different solutions. The first scenario aims to further intensify scientific- and technology-driven agriculture research. The second scenario aims to radically switch to nature-based solutions in agricultural systems. There seem to be two interpretations of the nature-based solutions scenario: on the one hand, the interpretation of the IUCN regards nature-based solutions, such as regenerative agriculture, as using nature and denies a link with biomimicry; and on the other hand, the interpretation of the EU regards regenerative agriculture as an example of biomimicry. This raises the question: is regenerative agriculture a prime example of biomimicry or is it only a very important way to use nature in agriculture? To answer this question, we take a step back and philosophically reflect on biomimicry. Based on two definitions of mimesis, we distinguish between two concepts of biomimicry, a ‘strong’ concept which emphasizes natural principles and copying natural models, and a ‘weak’ concept, which emphasizes inspiration by nature and creative invention. Secondly, we describe and analyze regenerative agriculture as part of the nature-based solutions scenario and interpret regenerative agriculture first as ‘weak’ and then as ‘strong’ biomimicry. Both interpretations have their problems. To address these, we propose a new concept of biomimicry based on a new definition of mimesis. This enable us to differentiate between biomimicry, strict imitation of nature, and nature-inspired invention. We argue that our conceptualization of biomimicry helps to operationalize regenerative agriculture as a biomimetic technology.

Reform of Local Self-government in Serbia – Internal Legal Framework and EU Integration

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45
Author(s):  
Marko Stankovic ◽  
Bojan Milisavljević
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
The Republic ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Constitutional System ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

The paper analyzes Serbian system of local self-government under the Constitution of 2006 and its possible improvements. There are two major aspects of reform. On the one side, there are weaknesses in internal law and practice that were detected in last three decades and six concrete proposals for their correction. On the other side, considering that Serbia negotiates on integration with the EU, some improvements of the system should be a result of that process, fully in accordance with the European standards of local self-government. Reforming the local self-government in both of these directions should lead to better legal framework in the Republic of Serbia and upgrading the constitutional system.

scholarly journals The EU and constitutional change: a research proposal

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
WTE ◽  
TWB
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Support Mechanism ◽  
The People ◽  
The One ◽  
Actual Relationship ◽  
The Eu

The first punctual question arising is how, in its (single) constitutional being, a body such as the Union combines its constituent roots in the original founding authorities (the states) with those, autonomous, in its own institutions. These are the ECJ for interpretation; the political institutions for practice and convention. In other words, what is the actual relationship, under the urge of change, between the states as treaty masters and the European Council, the Council, the Parliament and the Court? Secondly, there is the question as to how these shared constituent roots reflect not on constitutional change but on the day-to-day legislative and executive functioning of the Union's body politic. The coming constitutional settlement on the euro's financial support mechanism will not only consist of a new treaty. It will also take the form of secondary legislation and case-law. A third, most fundamental, question is how this ever-unfinished constitutional situation, imperfect by definition, will ultimately allow the development of a sound relationship between the authorities and the people, a relationship which is at the heart of any constitutional settlement. The last question (for now) sends us back to the one put in a previous editorial (in issue 1 of this year). It is: how to account for this incomplete and urged situation in a single and coherent constitutional reading?

scholarly journals Media in COVID–19: A Double Edge Sword.

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 730-738
Author(s):  
Snehal Gondhalekar
Keyword(s):  
Web Based ◽  
Analytic Treatment ◽  
The People ◽  
Double Edge ◽  
The World ◽  
Double Edge Sword ◽  
The Relationship

This research aims to show the impression of Media on COVID-19 amongst common public. This research focuses on the relationship and its influence globally on the people in every domain of their life and its effects on their health.As we all know, While at same time as we are witnessing a worldwide health danger named COVID-19 since the previous few months the unfold of records approximately as compared to the pandemic has been an awfully travelled lot faster than the virus itself. Hence its miles challenging to find a pleasant stability among the toxic overuse of media era and healthful harnessing of healthcare records.As same as we have seen with different emergencies, individuals everywhere on the world contact each other through web-based media to sort out what's going on. We break down commitment and interest in the COVID-19 point and give a differential appraisal on the development of the talk on a worldwide scale for every stage and their clients. We fit data spreading with pestilence models describing the essential multiplication number for every web-based media stage. Additionally, we distinguish data spreading from flawed sources, finding various volumes of falsehood in every stage. Be that as it may, data from both dependable and faulty sources don't present diverse spreading designs. At last, we give stage subordinate mathematical appraisals of bits of gossip intensification.Capable utilization of these instruments can help rapidly spread significant new data, important new logical discoveries, share analytic, treatment, and follow up conventions, just as analyse various methodologies all around the world, eliminating geographic limits without precedent for history.

scholarly journals An assessment of European integration for the EU-15 (1971-2015)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Constantinos Ikonomou
Keyword(s):  
Integration Process ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
Production Union ◽  
Permanent Loss ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Integration Stage ◽  
The Eu

A long-term assessment of the EU integration process is attempted for the1971-2015 period, by comparing per capita Gross Domestic Product (in constant Purchasing Power Parities) and its change, for EU-15 and non-EU states that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. A growing divergence is found between Greece but also Portugal and the EU southern periphery on the one hand, and Luxembourg, Ireland and Scandinavian states on the other that have benefi ted from EU integration, especially after the Eurozone was formed. Those EU-15 members that have joined the Eurozone have not benefi ted as much as non-members. It is suggested that two types of states can be trapped by the integration process: The relative or absolute losers of the currency zone, like Greece and states like the UK that have benefi ted less from integration, while choosing to remain at an earlier integration stage. Given the mix of monetary and fi scal policies pursued, resolving the former problem will require setting-up a common production union to advance competitiveness and co-operation, while solution to the latter should avoid the risk of disintegration and of the permanent loss of EU membership.

scholarly journals �So they do not profit this people at all� (Jr 23:32). A critique of prophecy

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm J. Wessels
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
Final Sentence ◽  
False Prophets ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Jeremiah 23:9�40 is a section of the Bible that is dedicated to the issue of true and false prophets. This section follows the cycle of the kings in Jeremiah 21:1�23:8. Both these cycles form part of an editorial unit 21:1�24:10. The kings and the prophets, along with the priests constituted the leadership in Israelite society. The view presented in 21:1�23:40 is that of a failed leadership and the result was the Babylonian exile. In this article the focus is on the prophets who are regarded as false. Jeremiah 23:9�40 is a collection of oracles ascribed to Jeremiah by tradition. In most instances the oracles are of a general nature and lack contextual concreteness. The literary context created by the compilers of 21:1�23:40 is essential to the argument presented in this article. According to Jeremiah 23:32 the false prophets �� do not profit the people at all� (New Revised Standard Version of the Bible [NRSV]). The line of reasoning in this article will be that, as religious leaders, prophets should benefit the people. In the context of 21:1�23:40 they had failed to do this. If the prophets had been in proper communication with Yahweh, they would not have misled the people. From the point of view of the collectors, most probably in an exilic context, the message is clear: the prophets have failed the people, the exile is a reality, and there is no longer any room for false prophets. Jeremiah 23:25�32 makes it clear that, if prophetic words do not profit Yahweh�s people, they should be regarded as false and misleading.The passage for discussion in this article is Jeremiah 23:25�32. The very last sentence in this passage (v. 32) seems to be the culminating point of the complaint against the opposing prophets: �so they do not profit this people at all�. The purpose of this article is to address this issue of prophets benefiting the ordinary people. From this final sentence one can conclude that one of the marks of a true prophet is that ordinary people should benefit from his performance as a prophet. The question will be, �What can a prophet contribute to society that will benefit the people?� If we ask this question in the current context, the highlighting of the negative aspect of the prophets will guide us to what the expectation of the writer (prophet) was. Prophets, according to the classical definition of their function, are supposed to communicate to people the messages they receive from Yahweh (Redditt 2008:6; cf. also Blenkinsopp 1996:28�30).1 In verse 28 of the passage under discussion Yahweh says: �� let the one who has my word speak my word faithfully� (NRSV). The role of the prophets is to act as channels of communication between Yahweh and the people. Yahweh sends his messages to his covenant people through the prophets he has commissioned for this purpose.

Kosovo: The International Community's European Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita McKinna
Keyword(s):  
International Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Ethnic Integration ◽  
The People ◽  
Ethnic Division ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Post War ◽  
The One

This article is about the post-war governance of Kosovo and the contradiction posed by the focus on multi-ethnicity on the one hand, and the development of a new Kosovar identity that transcends ethnicity on the other. Post-war Kosovo represents a bold experiment by the international community to create a society that adheres to European standards. The international administration has based its post-war reconstruction and governance of Kosovo on standards aimed at EU accession. To this end, since 1999 the international administration in Kosovo has pursued multi-ethnicity as a panacea. Far from creating the conditions conducive to greater inter-ethnic integration, the policies enacted supposedly in the name of multi-ethnicity have resulted in the further entrenchment of ethnic division. At the same time, the international administration has promoted a new Kosovo identity that transcends ethnicity and that fits with European standards. This article questions the international administration's approach in governing post-war Kosovo with the ultimate goal of EU accession. It argues that this approach has failed both in creating a more multi-ethnic society and in creating a new identity that is embraced by the people of Kosovo. This situation in turn raises questions as to whether there is a genuine will from the people of Kosovo to fulfil such standards, and therefore whether the goal of EU integration for Kosovo is a realistic one.

The Sense and Nonsense of the EU Integration Debate

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-282
Author(s):  
Miroslava Scholten ◽  
Daniel Scholten
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
The Us ◽  
Current Financial Crisis ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

The current financial crisis in the Eurozone has put the debate on EU integration back on the table. Yet, how does the debate on EU integration, particularly the arguments and ideals used in it, actually influence the process of EU integration? This article wishes to provide some food for thought by arguing the debate’s irrelevance in furthering or hindering the EU integration process. It does so by discussing the role of the debate’s arguments in shaping EU integration and by comparing the EU debate with the one had by the founding fathers of the US. The article shows the debate is beside the point largely because most steps in EU integration are driven by circumstances, events, or national interests, that even when one argument seems decisive it is likely to be elevated over others by circumstances, and that none of the debate’s arguments hold an intrinsic value over others.

scholarly journals The Selected Aspects of Application of Monetary Policy in the Economic and Monetary Union Pre-and-Post 2008

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Vojtaššák
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Legislative Power ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Purpose of the article is to present in two parts the selected aspects of application of monetary policy in the euro area pre and post 2008 as well as insitutional adaptations brought by the EU legislator. Methodology/methods In order to better explain these points, the article relies partially on a comparison with the framework and application of the monetary policy by the Federal Reserve as well as on a historic method when outlining the influence of definition of financial stability from the ECB/Eurosystem towards other prominent central banks. Scientific aim The article presents selected aspects of the monetary policy in the part of the EU where single currency was introduced in order to outline state of the art governance structure as well as a certain institutional creativity in application of powers conferred upon the central banks by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Protocol on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank. The goal is to prove (i) the hypothesis of robustness of the framework and (ii) present the limits that can only be pushed further by the legislative power. The conclusions confirm on the one hand that the framework of monetary policy based on strong institutional safeguards such as legislative power and independence is very resilient and can prove efficient and creative enough to stabilise an innovative monetary system, however, on the other hand, validate the hypothesis that certain adaptations can only be performed on the basis of a legislative adaptations.

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