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The Influence of the European Parliament on Decision-making in the European Union: Case Study Services Directive
Wygrysová, Dominika ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the role of the European Parliament in decision-making process in European Union under the co-decision procedure. By using the theory of liberal integovermentalism it reflects on wheter the position of the Parliament is mainly influenced by preferences of its political groups, or whether the national interests of those backbenchers, who depending on their position in the institution are able to influence this position, also play the role. The paper focuses on the case study of the Services Directive, which during its negotiations became a subject of many changes. Most controversial issues of the draft were a scope of the Directive and newly introduced country-of-origin principle. The first part of the paper introduces different paradigms of the European integration, which could influence decision-making process. The second part presents key players of the negotiations within the Parliament. The third part itself focuses on the case study, mainly on the preferences of those key players during the development of the position of this institution. It later shows how those key players are able to assert their position in the Parliament and during the inter-institutional negotiations. The paper mainly focuses on the possibilities of those key players to promote the national...
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Analysis of Approaches to Migration in Televised Debates on British Membership in the European Union
Wygrysová, Dominika ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Bauer, Paul (referee)
In 2016, the Great Britain became the first Member State to organize a referendum about its membership in the European Union, which led to the decision to leave it. In the much controversial campaign, which led to the vote itself, the media identified three key issues off the Membership debate: the EU economy, immigration to the Great Britain and the position of the country in the world. The media also tent to describe the debate as "filthy". One of the unusual and horrifying factors were death threats to few of the political actors, as well as assassination of the Labour politician Jo Cox. Given the context, out of the three key issues, the immigration became the most controversial one, especially because of the actions of the UKIP party. Their than chairman Nigel Farage was eager to take pictures in front of two billboards they've put up - one of which captured thousands of refugees waiting on the borders, the other one implying more than 1 million Turks could enter the country in the near future. Both of those billboards were put up to stir the fear of the migration in the country. This paper concludes of different approaches to immigration presented by the both political camps - "Leave" and "Remain". Based on the analysis of the transcripts of the eleven televised debates it describes key...
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The Influence of the European Parliament on Decision-making in the European Union: Case Study Services Directive
Wygrysová, Dominika ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the role of the European Parliament in decision-making process in European Union under the co-decision procedure. By using the theory of liberal integovermentalism it reflects on wheter the position of the Parliament is mainly influenced by preferences of its political groups, or whether the national interests of those backbenchers, who depending on their position in the institution are able to influence this position, also play the role. The paper focuses on the case study of the Services Directive, which during its negotiations became a subject of many changes. Most controversial issues of the draft were a scope of the Directive and newly introduced country-of-origin principle. The first part of the paper introduces different paradigms of the European integration, which could influence decision-making process. The second part presents key players of the negotiations within the Parliament. The third part itself focuses on the case study, mainly on the preferences of those key players during the development of the position of this institution. It later shows how those key players are able to assert their position in the Parliament and during the inter-institutional negotiations. The paper mainly focuses on the possibilities of those key players to promote the national...
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