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Title: Global Connections Europe Session 3


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  • Global Connections Europe Session 3
  • Todays Agenda
  • Czech Republic, Visiting Speaker, Prof. Craig
    Cravens, UT Dept. of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
  • Student Presentation Post-1989 privatizations
    in Hungary and Czech Republic
  • Introduction to the European Union

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  • Global Connections Europe Session 3
  • Introduction to EU
  • History
  • Major institutions
  • Accession process for CR and Hungary
  • Process
  • Issues
  • Legal/Regulatory structures
  • Jurisdiction

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Introduction to EU
  • When was the EU created?
  • How was the EU created?
  • Why was the EU created?
  • What exactly is the EU?

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How (and why) did the EU come into existence?
  • Post WWII Churchill, Monnet, Schumann
  • 1952 ECSC
  • 1957 Treaties of Rome
  • 1960s
  • merger of institutions of the 3 communities
  • Customs union
  • British attempts to join
  • History of competing conceptions of economic and
    political union goes back to origins

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1957
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1973
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1981/86
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How (and why) did the EU come into existence?
  • 1970s and 80s geographic expansion (see map)
  • 1976 Parliament directly elected
  • 1987 Single European Act
  • Free flow of capital, goods, people, services
  • harmonization of monetary policy
  • 1992 Maastrich Treaty (TEU)
  • Economic and monetary union
  • 1990s further geographic expansion (see map)

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1995
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2004
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Current candidate countries, mostly western
Balkans and (perhaps) Turkey
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  • EU Expansion the Accession Process
  • What did central European nations like Hungary
    and the Czech Republic hope to gain from joining
    the EU?

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From BBC article on Hungarys markets
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From BBC article on Hungarys markets
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  • EU Expansion the Accession Process
  • What did central European nations like Hungary
    and the Czech Republic hope to gain from joining
    the EU?
  • What does the accession process ask/require of
    these nations?

the acquis communitaire
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EU Institutions and Terminology 1. What are the
principal policymaking institutions of the EU?
What role does each institution serve?
  • Commission
  • Council of Ministers
  • Parliament
  • ECJ / Court of First Instance

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  • EU Institutions and Terminology
  • Decisions vs. directives
  • Co-decision
  • Subsidiarity
  • Proportionality
  • Harmonisation
  • Transposition

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  • Is the EU a United States of Europe? Where
    does sovereignty lie in the US? In the EU?
  • Is there an existing, organic EU constitution?
    What is the ultimate source of the EUs
    lawmaking/policymaking power?

Treaties ECSC Treaties of Rome (atomic energy
and EEC), as modified by SEA and Maastricht
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Why are the British and Danish, e.g., more wary
about political integration than, e.g., the
French and (to a lesser extent) the Germans?
What vision do the non-integrationists have for
the EU? Why is that vision insufficient for the
integrationists?
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Commission directorates http//www.europa.eu.i
nt/comm/dgs_en.htm What sorts of EU laws
directly regulate business? What substantive
regulatory jurisdiction does the EU exercise?
Must private businesses comply directly with EU
regulations?
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  • Europes Single Market
  • What is the goal of the single market? Of
    assuring free movement of goods, services,
    capital and labor?
  • Does it threaten national identity? National
    sovereignty? If so, how?

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  • Europes Single Market
  • Swiss ban importation of Belgian chocolate

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  • Europes Single Market
  • Article 28 Quantitative restrictions on imports
    and all measures having equivalent effect shall
    be prohibited between Member States.
  • Article 29 Quantitative restrictions on
    exports, and all measures having equivalent
    effect, shall be prohibited between Member
    States.

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  • Europes Single Market
  • Frances largest wine retailer refuses to stock
    less expensive Italian wines.
  • Portugal bans the importation of high-level
    nuclear waste for disposal.
  • 24 hours after mad cow disease is discovered in a
    German herd, neighboring countries ban
    importation of German beef.

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  • Europes Single Market
  • Article 30 The provisions of Articles 28 and 29
    shall not preclude prohibitions or restrictions
    on imports, exports or goods in transit justified
    on grounds of public morality, public policy or
    public security the protection of health and
    life of humans, animals or plants the protection
    of national treasures possessing artistic,
    historic or archaeological value or the
    protection of industrial and commercial property.
    Such prohibitions or restrictions shall not,
    however, constitute a means of arbitrary
    discrimination or a disguised restriction on
    trade between Member States.

EU notification procedure to promote concerted
action, rather than individual action, where
possible
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  • Europes Single Market
  • Article 30 The provisions of Articles 28 and 29
    shall not preclude prohibitions or restrictions
    on imports, exports or goods in transit justified
    on grounds of public morality, public policy or
    public security the protection of health and
    life of humans, animals or plants the protection
    of national treasures possessing artistic,
    historic or archaeological value or the
    protection of industrial and commercial property.
    Such prohibitions or restrictions shall not,
    however, constitute a means of arbitrary
    discrimination or a disguised restriction on
    trade between Member States.

French film industry local content in the arts
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  • Europes Single Market
  • Article 30 The provisions of Articles 28 and 29
    shall not preclude prohibitions or restrictions
    on imports, exports or goods in transit justified
    on grounds of public morality, public policy or
    public security the protection of health and
    life of humans, animals or plants the protection
    of national treasures possessing artistic,
    historic or archaeological value or the
    protection of industrial and commercial property.
    Such prohibitions or restrictions shall not,
    however, constitute a means of arbitrary
    discrimination or a disguised restriction on
    trade between Member States.

What does this language mean?
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  • Europes Single Market
  • U.K. Department of Commerce spends one million
    pounds on a buy British advertising campaign.
  • Buyers choice Government mandate

Govt owned Private Co.
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  • Europes Single Market
  • Belgian chocolatiers blockade highways on the
    border to prevent the importation of lesser
    chocolates, maintaining the blockade long enough
    for the products to spoil.
  • Belgian regulators decide that they must protect
    the integrity of their chocolates, and issue
    rules prohibiting the labeling of any product as
    chocolate if it contains milk. In 12 of the 15
    EU countries, confectionary companies produce
    chocolate containing milk.
  • Belgian law requiring all chocolate labels to
    specify the country of manufacture.

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  • Europes Single Market
  • What about firms that are wholly or partially
    state-owned, but which compete primarily with
    private sector firms?
  • Energy sector
  • Transport sector
  • Can these arrangements continue?

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Effects of Single Market
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Effects of Single Market
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Single Market Benefits of Competition
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Single Market Benefits of Competition
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Single Market Benefits of Competition
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Single Market Benefits of Competition
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