Lecture 5 Flashcards
What are the two parts that EU-law consist of?
What are the two parts that EU-law consist of?
- Primary EU-law
- Secondary EU-law
What is the Primary EU-law?
What is Secondary EU-law? How is it different from Primary EU-law?
What is acquis communautaire?
What is the EU pillar structure? What are its three pillars?
By what treaty was the EU pillar structure created? Is it still in place?
What is the first pillar of the EU?
How is the EMU operated?
How did the treaty of Rome change the decision making process of the EMU?
How are new EU treaties created and accepted?
What are the four different procedures of decision making?
What are the five types of EU legislation?
How are decisions made in the two other EU-pillars?
What is the Open Method of Cooperation (OMC)?
How is the EU democratically deficient?
What does MS refer to?
Member States
What is the Citizens Initiative?
What are the roles of the national parliaments?
Where are the role of national government described?
The Treaty of Lisbon
What is a critism of the role of national parliaments?
There is not enough time to check all proposed legislation.
What is the principle subsidiarity? Where was it introduced?
Who precides over the council meetings? Where is described how this works?
Why did the EU face democracy issues? How is this solved? What are the problems of this solution?
How was democracy more introduced into the EU in the 1990s?
How did the debate on democratization of the EU change in the 2000s?
What did the concept of the constitutional and Libon treaty do to the concept of democratization of the EU?
How does the EU deal with intrest groups? How has it dealt with them in the past?
What are the different types of European intrest groups?
- EU/national groups
- Business intrests
- Social partners
- Non-business intresets
Do all intrest groups behave similarly? On what do some rely to get attention? What are their rights? How does the EU help them? Is the EU biased towards intrest groups?
How is de popularity of the EU measured? What are its trends? When is someone more likely to support the EU?
How can the public attitude towards the EU be described using Political Economy and Rationality? Is this succesful?
Theories that use rational self-intrested assumptions claim that those who benefit from the EU are in favour of it. However this cannot explain negative opinions about the EU in countries like Greece or Italy, where even those who have benefitted aren’t positive about the EU.
How do many citizens look at the EU? Who plays an important role in shaping their opinion? How do they play a role?
