Lecture 5

Question 1

What are the two parts that EU-law consist of?

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Question 2

What are the two parts that EU-law consist of?

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• Primary EU-law
• Secondary EU-law

Question 3

What is the Primary EU-law?

Answer 3

Question 4

What is Secondary EU-law? How is it different from Primary EU-law?

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Question 5

What is acquis communautaire?

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Question 6

What is the EU pillar structure? What are its three pillars?

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Question 7

By what treaty was the EU pillar structure created? Is it still in place?

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Question 8

What is the first pillar of the EU?

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Question 9

How is the EMU operated?

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Question 10

How did the treaty of Rome change the decision making process of the EMU?

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Question 11

How are new EU treaties created and accepted?

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Question 12

What are the four different procedures of decision making?

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Question 13

What are the five types of EU legislation?

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Question 14

How are decisions made in the two other EU-pillars?

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Question 15

What is the Open Method of Cooperation (OMC)?

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Question 16

How is the EU democratically deficient?

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Question 17

What does MS refer to?

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Member States

Question 18

What is the Citizens Initiative?

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Question 19

What are the roles of the national parliaments?

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Question 20

Where are the role of national government described?

Answer 20

The Treaty of Lisbon

Question 21

What is a critism of the role of national parliaments?

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There is not enough time to check all proposed legislation.

Question 22

What is the principle subsidiarity? Where was it introduced?

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Question 23

Who precides over the council meetings? Where is described how this works?

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Question 24

Why did the EU face democracy issues? How is this solved? What are the problems of this solution?

Question 25

How was democracy more introduced into the EU in the 1990s?

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Question 26

How did the debate on democratization of the EU change in the 2000s?

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Question 27

What did the concept of the constitutional and Libon treaty do to the concept of democratization of the EU?

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Question 28

How does the EU deal with intrest groups? How has it dealt with them in the past?

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Question 29

What are the different types of European intrest groups?

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1. EU/national groups
2. Business intrests
3. Social partners
4. Non-business intresets

Question 30

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?

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Question 31

How is de popularity of the EU measured? What are its trends? When is someone more likely to support the EU?

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Question 32

How can the public attitude towards the EU be described using Political Economy and Rationality? Is this succesful?

Answer 32

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.

Question 33

How do many citizens look at the EU? Who plays an important role in shaping their opinion? How do they play a role?

Answer 33