Legal and Institutional Issues affecting European Political Union

Institutional and legal issues of emissions trading

Emissions trading systems as a means of air pollution control have been developed in recent years to address some important limitations of traditional command and control environmental regulation. Trading systems address many of the inefficiencies of command systems and may promote cost-effectiveness by introducing flexibility and providing incentives for sources with lower control costs to und...

Legal and political issues facing telemedicine.

European Union vs. Spam: A Legal Response

Unsolicited commercial communications now represent more than fifty per cent of the e-mail traffic in the European Union and around the world. This paper is about the legal EU approach to such an issue. Through the analysis of the evolution of the legislative framework, it aims to define, under a legal perspective, what spam is, to explain why the opt-in choice has been adopted by the EU, and t...

Political Budget Cycles in the European Union

GREGOR JIŘÍ. 2016. Political Budget Cycles in the European Union. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(2): 595–601. This paper provides research on the theme of the political budget cycles. The goal is to fi nd out whether or not the government tries to manipulate the state budget and its components for the purpose of reelection across the countries of the ...

Electoral Democracy and Political Representation in the European Union

This paper addresses two particular aspects of the much debated democratic deficit in EU governance – the capacity of parties at the European level to represent the will of the citizens of Europe, and the absence of a system of party government at the European level, whereby parties in the parliament lack the capacity to effectively control the governing bodies of the EU. We first evaluate the ...