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John McCormick (born November 30, 1954) is Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Politics at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and was department chair from 2001 until 2008. He spent eight years working in the environmental movement (working for the World Wide Fund for Nature and the International Institute for ...
McCormick, John. The European superpower (Macmillan Education UK, 2017). online; Smith, Michael. "The European Union and the United States: Competition, convergence and crisis in a strategic relationship." in The European Union's Strategic Partnerships: Global Diplomacy in a Contested World (2021) pp: 97-120. online; Topliceanu, Stefan Catalin.
The exact political character of the European Union is debated, some arguing that it is sui generis (unique), but others arguing that it has features of a federation or a confederation. It has elements of intergovernmentalism , with the European Council acting as its collective "president", and also elements of supranationalism , with the ...
v. t. e. Functionalism is a theory of international relations that arose during the interwar period principally from the strong concern about the obsolescence of the state as a form of social organization. Rather than the self-interest of nation states that realists see as a motivating factor, functionalists focus on common interests and needs ...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday nominated her candidates for posts in the EU executive. Each of the EU's 27 member states gets a seat at the Commission table. Poland ...
September 6, 2024 at 7:59 AM. BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The European Union needs closer cooperation on markets and defence, but not on political issues such as migration, where major differences ...
Constitutional nature of the democratic deficit. In the European Union, there are two sources of democratic legitimacy: the European Parliament, chosen by the electorates of the individual EU countries; and the Council of the European Union (the "Council of Ministers"), together with the European Council (of heads of national governments), that ...
The seven organs of the Union are in blue, national / intergovernmental elements in orange. The primary institutions of the European Union are the European Commission, the European Council, the Council of the European Union (Council) and the European Parliament. The ordinary legislative procedure, applies to nearly all EU policy areas.