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Author-Name: Michal Bokša
Author-Name: Monika Bokšová
Title: 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
Abstract: 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 antisemitism. The aim of this paper is to both clarify main reasons behind European Commission’s decision to publish its Interpretative Notice and to analyse whether it is appropriate to label such action as inconsistent and discriminatory. Results of the provided analysis imply that the criticism of the Interpretative Notice is in many respects unjustified and mainly politically, not economically, motivated.
Keywords: Israel, Izrael, Trade, obchod, indication of origin of goods, occupied territories, external relation of the EU, označování původu zboží, okupovaná území, vnější vztahy EU
Pages: 4-15
Volume: 2016
Issue: 1
Year: 2016
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Veronika Lapšanská
Title: Open Method of Coordination in European Governance
Abstract: 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
Keywords: open method of coordination, governance in EU, soft law, hard law, intergovernmentalism and community method, otevřená metoda koordinace, vládnutí v EU, soft law, hard law, intergovernmentální a komunitární metoda vládnutí
Pages: 16-28
Volume: 2016
Issue: 1
Year: 2016
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Jaromír Volf
Title: Helene Dyrhauge, EU Railway Policy-Making: On Track? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 192 s. ISBN: 978-1137274489
Pages: 88-92
Volume: 2016
Issue: 1
Year: 2016
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Hana Lipovská
Title: European Secession: Economic Integration on the Road to the Political Desintegration
Abstract: 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 spreads especially among the most developed regions of nation states. In an environment of economic barriers the right to secession is therefore not Pareto-optimal. Economic integration of small states, however, provides the benefits of the single market and reduces costs for the secession of the mother country. Comprehensive survey serves as a basis for future research of the political economy of conflict in the contemporary secession pressures.
Keywords: autonomous movements, economic integration, political economy of conflict, self-determination right, secession, separatism, autonomní hnutí, ekonomická integrace, politická ekonomie konfliktu, práva na sebeurčení, secese, separatismus
Classification-JEL: F15, F52, H77
Pages: 29-41
Volume: 2016
Issue: 1
Year: 2016
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Lourdes Gabriela Daza Aramayo
Author-Name: Marek Vokoun
Title: Exports from the Visegrad Group to Latin America - Factors of attractiveness between 2001 and 2013
Abstract: 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 GDP by sector, etc. but also have an influence in attracting trade flows. This research will also analyze the main export trends from V4 to Latin America and Caribbean in a historical perspective between 2001 and 2013.
Keywords: instituce, Visegrad Group, Visegrádská skupina, Institutions, International Trade, Economic History, Latin America and Caribbean Islands, mezinárodní obchod, hospodářské dějiny, Latinská Amerika a Karibik
Classification-JEL: F21, N46, O54, P45
Pages: 42-60
Volume: 2016
Issue: 1
Year: 2016
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Eliška Straková
Title: EU budget in comparison with the US federal budget: the discussion about the possible EU budget form in the context of strengthening its importance
Abstract: 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 of view, revenue and expenditure budget structure. The last part sums up the possible future EU budget forms with their probability of implementation and also identifies the main problems causing the weak position of EU budget. It seems that the implementation of new own revenue resources can be very important for strengthening EU budget role.
Keywords: European union, Evropská unie, rozpočet EU, EU Budget, EU Expenditure and revenue, Own Resources, US Federal Budget, Fiscal Federalism, výdaje a příjmy rozpočtu EU, vlastní zdroje příjmů, federální rozpočet USA, fiskální federalismus
Pages: 61-87
Volume: 2016
Issue: 1
Year: 2016
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