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Topic: Citizenship of the European Union

Ads by Google      MSN Encarta - European Union Under the Maastricht Treaty, European citizenship was granted to citizens of each member state. In 1991 the governments of the 12 member states signed the Treaty on European Union (commonly called the Maastricht Treaty), which was then ratified by the national legislatures of all the member countries. Some supporters of European political unity, such as the French statesman Jean Monnet, further believed that if the nations of Europe were to resume a dominant role in world affairs, they had to speak with one voice and command resources comparable to those of the United States. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579567/European_Union.html   (850 words)      Identity-politics in the European Union The conception of citizenship adopted by the EU appears to incorporate a tension between the politics of difference and the politics of equal dignity. Although the German Constitutional Court supported the Maastricht Treaty, it sought to justify the EU foremost with reference to its being an association of states. Bulmer, S.J. (1996) “The European Council and the Council of the European Union: Shapers of a European Confederation”, http://www.arena.uio.no/publications/wp01_17.htm   (9953 words)      MSN Encarta - European Union Under the Maastricht Treaty, European citizenship was granted to citizens of each member state. In 1991 the governments of the 12 member states signed the Treaty on European Union (commonly called the Maastricht Treaty), which was then ratified by the national legislatures of all the member countries. Some supporters of European political unity, such as the French statesman Jean Monnet, further believed that if the nations of Europe were to resume a dominant role in world affairs, they had to speak with one voice and command resources comparable to those of the United States. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579567/European_Union.html   (896 words)      The European Constitution The Maastricht Treaty (1992) established EU citizenship and the European Monetary Union (EMU). Each of the main treaties leading to the current constitutional document has undergone a three stage process of preparation ( This website is aimed at researchers, journalists and citizens interested in learning about the 50-year process culminating in the elaboration of a Constitution for the European Union. http://www.unizar.es/euroconstitucion/Home.htm   (239 words)      History Of The European Union - Ask.com Search History of the European Union and European Citizenship EUROPA - The EU at a glance - The History of the European Union Chief of State: President of the European Commission Jose Durao Barroso http://web.ask.com/web?qsrc=69&q=History+Of+The+European+Union&o=0   (290 words)      European Union Citizenship Passport Irish Citizens are also citizens of the European Union Irish citizens are also citizens of the European Union and allowed to live and work in any of the following 25 countries without any barriers for as long as you wish. If you are interested in acquiring Irish/European Union Citizenship and a Passort, please fill in the information on our Preliminary Research and Evaluation Form to see if you are eligible. http://www.lawfirmusa.com/   (290 words)      john field: social capital and lifelong learning It is not only in respect of education and training that the wider European policy agenda has for some years sought to balance the demands of competitiveness with the maintenance of social cohesion; to this has been joined an overarching interest in promoting European citizenship. This has significant implications for policy, given the autonomy of the actors concerned from government, and the resulting risks of unintended consequences. 325-424 in P. Dasgupta and I. Serageldin (eds.), Social Capital: a multifaceted perspective, World Bank, Washington DC European Council of Ministers (2002), Council Document 5828/02, http://register.consilium.eu.int/pdf/en/02/st05/05828en2.pdf http://www.infed.org/lifelonglearning/social_capital_and_lifelong_learning.htm   (290 words)      European Union to assert its identity on the international scene,...to introduce a citizenship of the Union, to develop close cooperation on justice and home affairs..." as spelled out by the Treaty on European Union. In its relatively short history, the European Union has increased in size with the entry of new members and in scope with the enlargement of its political responsibilities. The 1992 Treaty on European Union took the process of European integration one step further, paving the way for the introduction of a single currency and setting up new political structures to fulfil its responsibilities as a leading global power in arapid changing world. http://www.towson.edu/polsci/ppp/sp97/eu/INTRO.HTM   (258 words)      Open Directory - Society: History: By Region: Europe: European Union History of European Integration and Citizenship- Short guides to events in EU integration and the developments of the concept of EU citizenship. Europa Portal - The History of the European Union - A brief history, plus key events of each year from 1946 onwards. The European Prospect - Essential selections from documents and testimonies on the history, culture and future of the European Union. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Region/Europe/European_Union   (254 words)      166-240 European Integration: the Politics of the European Union It further discusses the issues raised by the Maastricht European Union Treaty, including the Referenda, the democratic deficit and complexities of citizenship, ethnicity and gender. N Nugent, The Government and Politics of the European Union. It provides analyses of the policy-making of the European Union (EU) and examines the tensions of intergovernmentalism and federalism in the attitudes of the member states and other participants in the process. http://www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/1998/subjects/166-240.html   (312 words)      European Union Center Syracuse University In collaboration with the Maxwell School's Campbell Institute for Public Affairs and with additional funding from Syracuse University's SPIRE Committee on Citizenship in a Globalizing World, the European Union Center held a one-day workshop to compare "balance of powers" debates across levels of government in the EU and the US. This workshop at Syracuse University's Greenberg House in Washington, DC is organized in collaboration with the new "EU as a Global Actor" interest-section of the European Union Studies Association, as well as several other institutions. We have commissioned six draft papers, to look comparatively at immigration and economics, social policies, demographics, educational access, public opinion, and political mobilization. http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/programs/euc/conf.html   (638 words)      KU to host two-day program examining European Union expansion April 26-27 The first session will address the complex and ever-changing nature of "European" citizenship, while the second will closely examine the effects of expansion on select European countries. LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas will host a two-day program April 26 and 27 to examine the practical aspects of conducting business with the European Union when it expands its membership by 10 nations next month. The new nations will join a well-established and growing political union of nearly 400 million people and a gross domestic product larger than that of the United States. http://www.ur.ku.edu/News/04N/AprNews/Apr22/eu.html   (638 words)      Politics of the European Union We also focus on some of the more controversial issues surrounding European integration, such as the "democratic deficit," changing ideas of citizenship, and whether a pan-European identity is emerging. February 7: The Council of the European Union The aim of this course is to expand students' knowledge about the European Union and the political, economic, and social transformation that the process of European integration is bringing about. http://ace.acadiau.ca/polisci/sfranceschet/POLS3793.htm   (574 words)      Applying for Irish Citizenship and Passports - About Genealogy Citizenship also allows you the right to apply for an Irish passport which grants you membership in the European Union and the right to travel, live or work in any of its fifteen member states: Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act of 1956 provides that certain persons born outside of Ireland may claim Irish citizenship by descent. Dual citizenship is allowed for many countries, including Ireland and the United States, and once you become an Irish citizen any children born to you (after your citizenship is granted) will also be eligible for citizenship. http://genealogy.about.com/library/weekly/aa030802a.htm   (767 words)      Citizenship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Union citizenship continues to gain in status and the European Court of Justice has stated that Union citizenship will be the "fundamental status of nationals of Member States" (see Case C-184/99 Rudy Grzelczyk v Centre Public d'Aide Sociale d'Ottignes-Louvain-la-Neuve, [2001] ECR I-6193, para 31). Whilst Commonwealth citizenship is sometimes enshrined in the written constitutions (where applicable) of Commonwealth states and is considered by some to be a form of dual citizenship, there have never been, nor are there any plans for a common passport. In recent years, some intergovernmental organisations have extended the concept and terminology associated with citizenship to the international level, where it is applied to the totality of the citizens of their constituent countries combined. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship   (2112 words)      The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Justice & Home Affairs Justice and Home Affairs, from the Council of the European Union. Factsheets on the European Union, from the Europarl server, has a section on Justice and Home Affairs. The European Union and Justice and Home Affairs." European Access, No. 4, 1994. http://www.library.pitt.edu/subject_guides/westeuropean/wwwes/jha.guide.html   (309 words)      The WWW Virtual Library: West European Studies; The Netherlands; bibliography. The legal position of Turkish immigrants in the European Union: a comparison of the legal reception and status of Turkish immigrants in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K. Sihhiye, Ankara: Karmap, 1998. "Immigration, immigrants and nationality law in the Netherlands, 1945-89." In Towards a European nationality: citizenship, immigration, and nationality law in the EU. Liberal parties in the Netherlands." In Liberalism and liberal parties in the European Union. http://www.library.pitt.edu/subject_guides/westeuropean/wwwes/mspr-n-b.html   (309 words)      A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --P-- The Community (essentially the supranational institutions and policies created by the Treaty of Rome as amended by the Single European Act, the Maastricht Treaty and the Treaty of Amsterdam) is the first pillar and dominates the life of the Union. Among the Adonnino Committee's recommendations were a Euro-lottery (an idea scotched by the British), European citizenship, the European passport, the European flag, a uniform electoral procedure, mutual recognition of qualifications, common postage stamps, an Ombudsman and proposals to improve the workings of the single market. The six-monthly presidency of the Council of Ministers and the European Council rotates between member states and is chaired by the appropriate minister, known as the 'president-in-office', for the subject under discussion (prime minister for the European Council, agriculture minister for the CAP, finance minister for Ecofin, and so on). http://www.euro-know.org/dictionary/p.html   (4039 words)      CONNEX: Research Group 3 One of the basic objections against the effectiveness of EU electoral politics is that national party systems, based in national cleavage structures, fail to organise the alternatives with respect to the further development of the European Union that ought to be decided in European Parliament elections. Although non-electoral mechanisms of interest intermediation are of particular importance for the European Union, this research group will concentrate on the channel of political representtation that is provided by competitive elections. This is the raison d'être of the European Parliament and of direct elections to the European Parliament. http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/typo3/site/index.php?id=14   (4039 words)      Europawahl 2004 - Pressemitteilungen As reported by the Federal Returning Officer, the Treaty on European Union provides that any Union citizen residing in a Member State whose citizenship he/she does not have, may exercise in the Member State he/she lives in his/her right to vote or to stand for election in the elections to the European Parliament. Upon enquiries made by the Federal Returning Officer with the Land Returning Officers, voter participation in today’s elections of the Members of the European Parliament in Germany emerges to be rather low – as was also the case in the 1999 European elections. As reported by the Federal Returning Officer, first results are available from the representative electoral statistics regarding the European elections 2004 held on 13 June 2004. http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/wahlen/europawahl2004/informationen/pressemitteilungen/pressemeldungen_e.htm   (4039 words)      WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw IV - info Participation in the National Conferenceon the Political System Dimension of the Constitutional Treaty of the European Union - pupils met Speaker of the Polish Parliament Marek Borowski. Participation in the Seminar "The Education for Democratic and Open European Citizenship" as a part of an annual session organized by the Ministry of National Education and Sport and the Council of Europe. Knowledge of the European Union Competition over Mazowieckie Voivodship organized by Pultusk School of Humanities (20.01.1999). http://www.wladyslaw.edu.pl/info/infouk.php   (4039 words)      MSN Encarta - European Union In 1991 the governments of the 12 member states signed the Treaty on European Union (commonly called the Maastricht Treaty), which was then ratified by the national legislatures of all the member countries. Under the Maastricht Treaty, European citizenship was granted to citizens of each member state. Some supporters of European political unity, such as the French statesman Jean Monnet, further believed that if the nations of Europe were to resume a dominant role in world affairs, they had to speak with one voice and command resources comparable to those of the United States. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579567/European_Union.html   (4039 words)      European Union (EU) The main objectives are to promote economic and social progress, to assert the identity of the European Union on the international scene, to introduce European citizenship, to develop an area of freedom, security and to maintain an established EU law. The institutions involved in running the European Union are the European Parliament (elected by the peoples of the member states, situated in Strasbourg), the Council (representing the governments of the member states), the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the Court of Auditors. The European Union's mission is to organize relations between the member states on the basis of solidarity. http://www.eranova.ch/glossary2/EU.htm   (4039 words)      Overview of the European Parliament: An introduction European Council: since 1975 the European Council has brought together, at least twice a year, the heads of state or government of the member states of the Union - assisted by the foreign ministers - and the President of the European Commission. European citizenship gives EU citizens the right of free movement and residence in the territory of the Member States, the right to vote and stand for election in European and local elections, the right to diplomatic protection in third countries, as well as: European Parliament resolution: a text adopted by the European Parliament embodying its opinion either on a legislative text - a 'legislative resolution' - or on any subject chosen on Parliament's own initiative - a 'non-legislative resolution' - with the intention of influencing a given European Union policy. http://www.europarl.eu.int/presentation/default_en.htm   (4039 words)      Ephraim Nimni He has held two large Australia Research Council Grants: The Political Evaluation of Ethnicity in the work of Otto Bauer (1992-94), and Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Identity: Investigating the Affinities between Canada, the European Union and Australia (1996-99). His current research interests cover ethnicity and theories of nationalism, multiculturalism, theories of the state, ideology, post-structuralism and discourse analysis, Israel and Palestine, the European Union, contemporary Europe, Argentina, and international relations. He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, a British Academy Visiting Fellow, and a Fellow of the European Institute at the London School of Economics. http://politics-ir.arts.unsw.edu.au/staffnames/nimni.htm   (4039 words)      Chronology - Czech Republic 1987-99 June 1993: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia are formally invited to join the European Economic Community, although it is considered unlikely that any of these countries will be able to meet the economic, social, and environmental requirements before the year 2000. March 1993: One month after abortion is banned in Poland, the Czech Republic bans abortions for foreigners in response to an expected influx of Polish women seeking the procedure. The basis for the new interpretation is a ruling by the Czech Constitutional Court last year that granted Czech citizenship to current Human Rights Commissioner Petr Uhl--who had chosen Slovak citizenship when Czechoslovakia split five years ago. http://www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/Texts/Chrono/CZ.html   (5128 words)      Immigration - definition of Immigration in Encyclopedia Many other countries permit immigration in particular circumstances, e.g., to fill jobs where a skill is not available locally, for wealthy investors or business leaders, in cases of marriage, multiple citizenship or asylum, or under multilateral agreements such as within the European Union or between New Zealand and Australia. Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. Recent increases in immigration have led to the development of political parties in Europe which are almost solely concerned with limiting immigration. http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Immigration   (744 words)      All About Latvia: Nationalism in Latvia within EU The Union is based on the general priciple that have been entered into the proposed Constitution of the European Union as its motto: unity in diversity. Yet, post-occupation Latvian nationalism will continue to be at play against the European Union pragmatic approach to questions of ethnicity and nationalism. Countries are united in their diversity under the helm of being European first and foremost, and the national on the second terms. http://www.allaboutlatvia.com/article/195/nationalism-in-latvia-within-eu   (1400 words)      [imc-la]Election results/European Parliament 2004: Throw the Bums Out! And while outside the European Union, Serbians gave the most votes in the first of two rounds of elections to Radical Party presidential candidate Tomislav Nikolic, who has supported Slobodan Milosevic and economic autonomy, and opposed the NATO war on Yugoslavia that Clinton and Blair waged in violation of the United Nations. However, the Republic of Ireland also passed a constitutional amendment that withholds citizenship from the children born to recent immigrants. Many voters chose to express their rejection of the anti-democratic, pro-corporate European constitution being proposed by voting against its most prominent proponents. http://www.regenerationtv.com/pipermail/imc-la/2004-June/009512.html   (1400 words)      Cyprus Green Party Arnold Cassola, Secretary General of the European Greens, augured that Cyprus enters the European Union as a united country on 1st May 2004. In this respect, we European Greens demand the reopening of the Greek language school in the village of Rizokarpaso to guarantee the linguistic and cultural diversity, to which all Cypriots – Turkish-Cypriots and Greek Cypriots alike- are entitled, as all other European Union citizens. Grazia Francescato, European Greens Spokesperson said: “The European Greens are extremely concerned at the fact that over 11,000 people have been granted citizenship in the last year or so by the Denktash regime, 6000 of which unaccountable. http://leonardo.spidernet.net/Artus/3314/mesogiako03.html   (764 words)

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