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In this article, the authors examined the patterns and effects of departmental oversight across 28 ministries in Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia in relation to transposition planning, legal review and monitoring of deadlines.Abstract:
The extent to which member states transpose EU directives in a timely fashion is often argued to be strongly associated with the general effectiveness of national bureaucracies. But what kind of institutional solutions ensure better performance? This paper examines the patterns and effects of departmental oversight across 28 ministries in Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. In mapping the strength of oversight, it relies on around 90 structured interviews regarding the rules-in-use on transposition planning, legal review and monitoring of deadlines. The analysis of the impact of departmental oversight is based on an original dataset of over 300 directives with transposition deadlines between January 2005 and December 2008.read more
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European Union Foreign Policy Construction During the Yugoslav Wars Using the Multiple Autonomous Actors Decision Unit
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the foreign policy of the European Union during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and conclude that where there is greater initial agreement among the members of the EU's ultimate decision unit about the proper role in a particular event and where there are agreement about the attendant behaviors for that role, the EU will be more successful in articulating and implementing a common foreign policy.
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The EU's responses to conflicts in its wider neighbourhood : human or European security?
Argyro Kartsonaki,Stefan Wolff +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of all conflicts among and between the neighbours' neighbours, broken down first by sub-region and then by conflict type, with a view to describing and explaining existing variation in terms of the EU's responses and their impact.
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Fostering assessment of student mobility in secondary schools: indicators of intercultural competence
TL;DR: In this paper, the assessment of the intercultural competence of returnees who participated in an annual study-abroad programme offered by the Italian educational association Intercultura (a non-profit organisation) was investigated.
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Optimal GNSS acquisition parameters when considering bit transitions
TL;DR: A theoretical study on the correlation process considering bit sign transition is done leading to the expression of the probability of detection, expressed in function of the bit transition location, which allows determining the optimal acquisition parameters when bit sign transitions are considered during the acquisition process.
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How long to compliance? Escalating infringement proceedings and the diminishing power of special interests
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the political weight of interest groups can explain delays in changes from the noncompliant status quo to policies consistent with European legislation, and long and escalating infringement proceedings are the result of opportunistic governments maximizing political support by providing particularly influential special interests with continued non-compliance.
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