Politicization in the EU: between national politics and EU political dynamics

The Politics of Risk and Eu Governance of Human Material.

This paper examines the politics of EU risk governance in relation to human material. It is argued that the political context has informed the way in which risks in relation to various types of human material have come to be defined as policy problems at EU level. In turn, this has influenced the design and/or persistence of institutional arrangements to manage such problems. It is further argu...

Border Regions and the Politics of EU- Russian Relations The Role of the EU in Tempering and Producing Border Conflicts

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

The Structure and Dynamics of Eu Federalism

This article analyzes European Union (EU) politics through the lens of comparative federalism. The article assesses the contributions that rationalist and constructivist approaches can make to the analysis of EU federalism, focusing on two broad questions. First, what explains shifts in authority from the state (i.e., member states) to the federal (i.e., EU) level? Second, what explains the deg...

The political empowerment of rare disease patient advocates both at EU and national level

Thirty years ago, the patients were left with many uncertainties, no networks and no access. The rarity of the disease made it difficult to identify specialists, little information could be found. Most of the patients were engaged in a longstanding process of obtaining the right diagnosis and treatments when these were available. Significant inequality was the only standard amongst European cou...