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28.02.2010 New RECON Online Working Papers A new working paper examines the challenges with regard to implementation of the precautionary principle in the field of European Community regulation of GMOs (RECON Online Working Paper 2009/14), while another paper investigates whether there has been an Europeanisation of Turkish foreign policy as a result of Turkey’s accession negotiations with the EU (RECON Online Working Paper 2009/15). In a third paper, a theoretical and operational framework that guides the empirical research on the prospects of parliamentary mode of representation at the EU level is developed (RECON Online Working Paper 2009/16). A fourth paper focuses on alternative institutional options for conducting policy dialogue within the context of CFSP (RECON Online Working Paper 2009/17), while a final paper paper contributes to the debate on how we can understand the increasingly high level of common EU foreign policies (RECON Online Working Paper 2009/18). All RECON publications. 23.12.2009 New RECON report A new report has been published in RECON's report series: RECON Report 10, The Sinews of European Peace: Reconstituting the Democratic Legitimacy of the Socio-Economic Constitution of the European Union, edited by Raúl Letelier and Agustín José Menéndez. The process of European integration and the establishment of the welfare state were for a long time regarded as the two sinews of European peace. The contributions to this report elucidate the extent to which these two great European transformations are related to the constitutional design of the institutional structure and the decision-making processes of the European Union. Special attention is paid to the relationship between the most prominent part of the economic constitution of the Union (the economic freedoms) and the key socio-economic policies of the Union (from fiscal policy to labour relationships). All RECON publications. 23.12.2009 EU Commissioner Špidla opened the RECON Midterm Conference Vladimír Špidla, EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, opened the RECON Midterm Conference 9 October 2009. In his opening speech, Commissioner Špidla discussed the concept of freedom and how it may be conceived, in political and economic terms. He claimed that 20 years after the Velvet Revolution, a misconception of freedom prevails, and he emphasised the important difference between freedom from, freedom against and freedom to. Read more 20.11.2009 RECON Newsletter No 2/2009
30.09.2009 Two PhD fellowships vacant at ARENA, University of Oslo Two positions as PhD fellows are available at ARENA, University of Oslo. The research focus for the first fellowship should be within one of the core research areas of ARENA, while the second second fellowship is within the field of European foreign and security policy. The deadline for application is 10 November 2009. Read more 30.09.2009 RECON midterm conference Can democracy be reconstituted at the European level, and if so, in what form? Are we now witnessing the third transformation of democracy - to a post-national form - thus succeeding city-state and nation state based versions of democracy? These are core questions that will be discussed at RECON‘s Midterm Conference in Prague on 9-10 October 2009. More than 100 researchers as well as policy makers, civil society actors and representatives from the general public will gather to discuss the RECON project’s focus on the future of democracy in Europe. The aim is to engage participants in a constructive discussion on the theoretical models underlying the project, as well as taking stock of RECON’s research halfway through the project. Vladimir Spidla, EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, will open the conference. Read more. 28.09.2009
New RECON publications RECON Report 7 deals with new approaches to supra- and transnational law-generating structures. RECON Report 8 comprise contributions from all RECON work packages, each applying the RECON framework to its subject area with attention to methodological issues and the main lines of debate. RECON Report 9 explores how the European Union has affected national constitution. In his new book, Der Sinn von Demokratie, RECON researcher Daniel Gaus argues that the criticism of the discourse-theoretical argument on democracy for being utopian is based on a misreading of Habermas’ theory. All RECON publications. 25.09.2009 New RECON working papers A new working paper proposes an analytical framework and a methodology of how to analyze civil society as ‘social constituency’ (RECON Online Working Paper 2009/7),whereas in another paper it is argued that reasons and norms must be given explanatory force in social action (RECON Online Working Paper 2009/8). A third working paper asks how control mechanisms structuring the involvement of national parliaments in EU policy-formulation affect the size and scope of conflict of parliamentary debates (RECON Online Working Paper 2009/9), while a final paper investigates the spreading phenomenon of Euroscepticism (RECON Working Paper 2009/10). All RECON publications. 08.09.2009 New RECON partner The University of Hamburg (UHAM) has joined the RECON consortium. UHAM is Germany's fifth largest university and has taken over the project from the University of Bath, following Prof. Antje Wiener's transfer. The RECON team at UHAM will continue the work in RECON's work package 6, The Foreign and Security Dimension, and will be responsible for a comparative analysis of elite groups of different national background who operate in transnational and domestic settings in the sector of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Read more 24.08.2009 New address for the website on Europeanisation of national constitutions The website on the Europeanisation of national constitutions has moved to http://proyectos.cchs.csic.es/europeconstitution. The website was launched by CEPC in 2007 as an important contribution to RECON's WP 2. Following the transfer of the RECON project from CEPC to CSIC in Madrid in 2008, the website has been moved to a new domain. The website is under development and will be updated throughout the lifetime of the project. Read more. 15.06.2009 Excellent review of RECON A recent review of RECON’s second year of activities praises the project for its contribution to the academic community worldwide. 'This project does not have to keep up with current state of the art but it sets for the moment standards in the state of the art.' Read more. 03.06.2009 RECON Newsletter No 1/2009
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