Contemporary Europe, 2016 (vol. 2016), issue 1

Výkladové sdělení Evropské komise o označování původu zboží z Izraelem okupovaných území: analýza příčin a významu pro preferenční obchodní dohody

Interpretative Notice of the European Commission on Indication of Origin of Goods from the Territories Occupied by Israel: An Analysis of Causes and of Its Significance for the Preferential Trade Agreements

Michal Bokša, Monika Bokšová

Současná Evropa 2016, 2016(1):4-15  

By the end of 2015 the European Commission published its interpretative notice which provided general guidelines on appropriate labelling of products originated in the occupied territories. The proposed expressions are those such as "product from the West Bank (Israeli settlement)". This final decision to publish these guidelines, resulting from continuous effort to resolve the long-standing dispute lasting from mid-90's, provoked a fierce debate on the international level. Even though the European Union has advocated itself by an attempt to protect the European consumers, it has been accused of applying double standard approach, discrimination and...

Otevřená metoda koordinace jako nástroj v evropském vládnutí

Open Method of Coordination in European Governance

Veronika Lapšanská

Současná Evropa 2016, 2016(1):16-28  

Open method of coordination is currently one of the most discussed ways of governance in the EU. The article discussed questions of definition of open method of coordination with regard to legal and political Framework of governance. Moreover, the article discusses the potential of open method coordination within the policy setting in Member States of the EU

Evropská secese: ekonomická integrace na cestě k politické desintegraci?

European Secession: Economic Integration on the Road to the Political Desintegration?

Hana Lipovská

Současná Evropa 2016, 2016(1):29-41  

European national governments have faced since 90s two contradictory pressures. While European Union requires ever closer economic integration, individual regions have called for increasing political disintegration. In 2014 four crucial referendums on the independence of regions in Ukraine, Italy, Scotland and Spain were held. This wave of secession movement and the fear of contagion to states with latent autonomous tendencies turned attention from the integration studies to the research of disintegration. This consultation deals with the literature review of the political-economic aspects of secession tendencies in European integration. Secession...

Exports from the Visegrad Group to Latin America - Factors of attractiveness between 2001 and 2013

Lourdes Gabriela Daza Aramayo, Marek Vokoun

Současná Evropa 2016, 2016(1):42-60  

This paper focuses on the identification of the variables determining the attractiveness of the exports from the Visegrad Group to Latin American and Caribbean countries using methods of economic history and cliometrics. There are a total of twenty-two countries represented over a period of ten years, from 2001 to 2013. It considers institutional and technological variables traditionally not taken into account, such as corruption control, patent applications and FDI inflow per GDP. As shown in the analysis and results presented in this paper, these factors not only point back to traditional variables such as GDP, inflation, population, the share of...

Rozpočet EU v analogii s federálním rozpočtem USA: diskuze o možných podobách rozpočtu Evropské unie v kontextu posílení jeho významu

EU budget in comparison with the US federal budget: the discussion about the possible EU budget form in the context of strengthening its importance

Eliška Straková

Současná Evropa 2016, 2016(1):61-87  

The EU budget realizes integration proces of the EU. In context of the public finance in the European Union has EU budget very specific position. Due to its functions, expenditures and revenues structure is not discussed in the context of public finance or not even in the context of possible creation of fiscal union. The aim of this paper is with analogy to the US federal budget to evaluate the future EU budget form in the context of strengthening its role and importance. The first part describes the fiscal federalism theory. The second part uses analogy and comparison methods to evaluate EU budget and US federal budget from the budget functions point...

Helene Dyrhauge, EU Railway Policy-Making: On Track? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 192 s. ISBN: 978-1137274489

Jaromír Volf

Současná Evropa 2016, 2016(1):88-92