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5 unusual facts about European integration


Alexei Barrionuevo

Prior to joining The Times, Barrionuevo worked in Brussels as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering European anti-trust, regulation and integration of Eastern Europe into the European Union.

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Russian legal scholar Oleg Kutafin and economist Alexander Zakharov produced a Concept of a Single Legal Space for the CIS and Europe in 2002.

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a loose organisation in which most former Soviet republics participate.

Federalism and Functionalism proposed the containment of the nation-state, while Transactionalism sought to theorise the conditions for the stabilisation of the nation-state system.

One of the most influential theories of European integration is Neo-functionalism, developed by Ernst B. Haas (1958) and further investigated by Leon Lindberg (1963).


Alliance for Europe of the Nations

Also, National Alliance, which despite its post-fascist background was a moderate national-conservative party strongly promoting European integration, grew uncomfortable with AEN and left it for the European People's Party by merging with Forza Italia to form The People of Freedom party on 27 March 2009.

Bernd Lucke

He is a Professor of macroeconomics at the University of Hamburg, a co-founder of "Wahlalternative 2013" (translated: "Election Alternative 2013"), and a founding member of the party Alternative for Germany, which contends that the Euro threatens European integration.

EGMONT - The Royal Institute for International Relations

The research takes place within the framework of three research programmes: European Affairs (dealing with European integration), Europe in the world (dealing with Europe’s role in international relations) and Africa (focusing mostly on Sub-Saharan and Central Africa).

Emma Bonino

Taking her background, one can infer she is a fervent pro-European, she reaffirmed it recently by signing the Soros letter ('As concerned Europeans') and calling for a stronger European integration.

Hugo Young

Young was a strong proponent of European integration, and sharply expressed his disappointment with the British government's eurosceptic politics in his columns, including Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to side with George W. Bush instead of his EU partners in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

NRJ Group

With its pan-European NRJ/ENERGY stations, the Paris-based NRJ Group has challenged the European radio market by being significantly different from diversifying market players like the Luxembourg-based RTL Group (Antenne Bayern, RTL Berlin, Yorin FM), and SBS Broadcasting (Radio 1 Norway, The Voice) or Stockholm-based MTG (P4 Norway, Rix FM, Lugna Favoriter).


see also

European History Network

The task of the Working Group is to increase both knowledge and understanding of the European integration process and the history of the European Union.

Europhobia

Euroscepticism, opposition among Europeans against European integration and the European Union.

Graeme Maxton

He also spent several years with Booz & Co, Citigroup and American Express and was a visiting professor at Cass Business School on the MBA program between 1988 and 2002 where he taught courses on business strategy, retail banking and European integration.

Iurie Leancă

Leancă was deputy prime minister and Foreign and European Integration Minister in Vlad Filat Cabinet.

Jon Ola Norbom

He graduated as cand.oecon. from the University of Oslo in 1949, and studied international economics and European integration at the College of Europe in Bruges 1952-1953.

Language law of Slovakia

According to the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages (EBLUL), the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, said the issue was beyond being simply an affair between Slovakia and Hungary and was becoming an issue of the whole European Union because it harms the spirit of European integration and the principles of democracy.

Massimo D'Alema

He still figures on the European scene; he signed the Soros letter ('As concerned Europeans') and has called for a stronger European integration.

Milisav Popović

When he was 24, he returned to Montenegro and started to work, first in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and later as a European Integration counsellor for the mayor of Podgorica, Miomir Mugoša.

Milorad Dodik

On 25 October 2011, Dodik spoke on "An American Foreign Policy Success Story: The Dayton Accords, Republika Srpska and Bosnia's European Integration" at Columbia University.

Nigel Ashford

Having directed the Principles of a Free Society Project at the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation in Sweden he was appointed professor of politics and Jean Monnet Scholar in European Integration at Staffordshire University, England.

World Economic Forum in Baku

Gordan Jandroković – Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Croatia