... exclusion maternal leave quantitative targets social investment Strategy for Growth and Jobs political citizenship social citizenship ambivalence conceptual debate feminism citizenship perspective Hungary Post-socialist transformation EU accession EU enlargement Welfare reform Rights Non...

...A series of European Union (EU) summits – Amsterdam in 1997, Berlin and Helsinki in 1999, and Nice in 2000 – focused on the need for inner reform of the institution against the prospect of future enlargement and new competences. The general tendency was for increased intergovernmentalism...

...At the heart of the European integration process is the political economy debate over whether the EU should be a market-making project, or if it should combine this with integration in employment and social policy. What has been the impact of the 2004 and 2007 rounds of enlargement upon...

...How inclusive are the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the European Union (EU)? The enlargement of both organisations seems to give some substance to the vision of a ‘Europe whole and free’ articulated at the Cold War's end. Yet more recently, enlargement's limits have increasingly...

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...Figure 5.1 Steps towards EU enlargement Source: Presidency conclusions, Luxembourg European Council (Decmeber 1997); Presidency Conclusions, Helsinki European Council (December 1999) at: www.consitium.europe.eu/cm3_applications/newsRoom/loadBook.asp?BID=76&LANG=1&cmsid...

.... The chapter concludes by identifying the 2004 and 2007 new member States as a potential threat to the ESD. European social model governance social policy accession preparations Bretton Woods EU enlargement European Council France Keynesianism Mitterrand François European Commission European...

.... The most important and controversial element of the external adaptation has been the NATO enlargement process. Other elements include ‘outreach’ programmes such as Partnership for Peace. This chapter looks at the impact of the Kosovo crisis on NATO's external adaptation, with particular reference to its...

...This chapter examines migrant aspirations and employer recruitment strategies in the aftermath of EU enlargement. Polish migrants were attracted to Ireland by the prospect of an endless supply of jobs and a higher income. However, non-economic motives such as the desire to travel and to learn...

...This book offers a timely exploration of the nature and scale of the emergent EU human rights regime by critically examining how and why EU intervention in human rights matters (with a key focus on child protection in Romania) as part of Eastern enlargement, has...

... States has been fixed by an internal agreement. It seems politically impossible that the EDF could be reduced on account of an enlargement of the Community. Rather, the increase of the number of Member States will be accompanied by an increase of the EDF, although the contribution of the new Members...

...As the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) enlarge, prospects for overall economic growth and peace are good, even if tensions both within and without the enlarged circle of EU and NATO member states could cloud the picture, as over Iraq in 2003. Continuing EU...

...The freedom of movement within the EU continues to be a hotly contested topic in British politics. This chapter argues that this debate is closely connected to the enlargement of the European Union – most notably the ‘Eastern enlargement’ in 2004. The author explores how the accession of ten new...