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Changes of Margaret Thatcher's policy towards Economic and Monetary Union
Dubská, Kateřina ; Mejstřík, Martin (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis "Changes of Margaret Thatcher's policy towards Economic and Monetary Union" attempts to describe the changes of Margaret Thatcher's policy towards commencing Economic and Monetary Union. The main aim of this thesis is to define how and why the policy had changed. Introductory chapters are dealing with Margaret Thatcher and her foreign policy, with Great Britain and its relationship towards European integration and with the history of European Community until 1970s. The main body of this work sums up the main parts of Margaret Thatcher's policy. It is following the negotiations of British rebate, Margaret Thatcher's attitude towards the Common Agricultural Policy, Single European Act (and single market), European Monetary System and Exchange Rate Mechanism and Margaret Thatcher's posture on starting Economic and Monetary Union. In the conclusion the thesis tries to answer if the Margaret Thatcher's policy can be classified as intergovernmentalistic. The paper also tries to summarize the changes of Margaret Thatcher's policy towards the negotiation of the Economic and Monetary Union of European Community. The thesis also attempts to answer why this policy was changed and which factors led to these changes.
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Formation of national position on Wine Reform within Common Agricultural Policy: a case of the concept of Multi-level governance? (example of France)
Svačinová, Tereza ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee) ; Lacina, Lubor (referee)
This thesis examines the applicability of the theoretical concept of Multilevel governance through a case study of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, more specifically a case study of the reform of the Common Market Organisation for Wine. The study focuses on the creation of the French national position regarding this reform. The primary aim is to determine whether the behaviour of the actors involved in the negotiation process corresponds conforms to the principles of the MLG concept. A secondary aim of the study is to identify the national particularities that could have an impact on certain aspects of the MLG concept. Since several of these aspects have not been proved in France because of the strong influence of national particularities, supplementary research has been done in the Czech Republic. In this country also, some aspects of the MLG concept were not applied. The thesis reaches the conclusion that the concept of MLG is applicable in the case of the negotiation process for the reform of the CMO for Wine even though some principles of MLG were not confirmed. This lack of applicability was caused by the influence of certain particularities of the country which are not engaged in the theoretical framework of the MLG concept. It is recommended that the possible influence of national...
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De Gaulle's first veto on British membership of the European economic community as an instrument for promoting national interest
Mashehová, Sandra ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
This bachelor thesis is a case study which had as a goal to explore whether the veto of General Charles de Gaulle has as an objective to promote or ensure French national interest. Another aim of the paper was to answer whether de Gaulle's policy towards European Economic Community had in the first place geopolitical or economic character. Generally, de Gaulle's policy towards EEC and his decisions taken in European affairs are considered mainly in the geopolitical terms. This thesis set a goal to confirm or disprove this proposition throw analyzing debate between the supporters of liberalism and realism. Throw this analysis I have come to the conclusion that French national interest in de Gaulle's policy towards European Economic Community and reasons he vetoed British appeal to join the Community can't be seen only in geopolitical terms. As Moravcsik argues, economic roots and an effort to satisfy interest groups - French farmers - are evident in de Gaulle's policy. Economic reasons had at least same (or even higher) importance as geopolitical ones. Nevertheless, clear and definite answer to question whether the dominant theme in veto and national interest was Economy or Geopolitics still can't be given.
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Evaluation of benefits of two local action groups for regional development
PEŠKOVÁ, Denisa
The aim of this thesis is to evaluation of the benefits of two local action groups for regional development. The thesis includes a description regional development, participants of regional development and factors of regional development. It is also includes characterization of regional policy in Czech Republic and European Union too. Regional policy of European Union is focused on financial resources and principles. There are many funds in European Union - European Regional Development fund, European Social fund, Cohesion fund and European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund. Practical part of thesis is focused on two local action groups LAG Strakonicko and LAG Blanský les. There are description projects, which were realized by these local action groups. These two local action groups are compared to based on criteria tourism, cultural events, employment, education and transport infrastructure. One to five points are assigned to the criteria. Value one means that the action group was not engaged in this area or participated minimally. On the other side value five means the group participated abundantly. The separate value numbers in every column are then added together and the functioning of every group is determined. The criteria were chosen as recommended by the local action group.
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Regulation in agriculture - application to the milk market
Voborníková, Tereza ; Hraba, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Urban, Jan (referee)
Regulations are often an object of interest of the economists. Some of them criticize regulations because they deform the market. The others appreciate their ability to redistribute the wealth in the society. The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the regulations in a specific agriculture market - production of milk. I supposed this part of agriculture market to be very interesting. There are some reasons: milk is a product of daily requirement, it is hardly to substitute, but still there are two levels of regulation - the European and the Czech one. The thesis is composed of six chapters. They are ordered from the general to particular facts. The used methods are mainly description and historical method. Interdisciplinary approach is also used. The first chapter focuses on the economic theory of regulation. The chapter is subdivided into parts that are dealing with market failures, capture theory, public interest, competition and monopoly. The conclusion of this chapter is as follows: the regulation in our economies exists because of the capture theory. Chapter Two explains the regulations on the European level. The conclusions of the previous chapter are proved and the reasons for regulation creating as well as its main problems are described. It also explains the reform of common agriculture...
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The role of agriculture in the process of Spain's entry into the EC
Sýkora, Filip ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
Spain sent its application for EC membership in 1977, but was admitted only in 1986 after complicated entry negotiations. One of the most disputed topics concerning the Spain's application to the EC was agriculture. This bachelor thesis examines the importance of agricultural sector in the process of integration of Spain in the EC, namely expectations of membership in EC for agricultural sector, the attitude of older EC member countries during negotiations and eventually the changes in Spain's agricultural sector after the entry into the EC. The thesis strives to verify the assumption that a good deal of motivation for the EC membership came from expectations that the entry into the EU would bring intense capital investment and would open new markets for Spanish agricultural produce, meanwhile southern EC's feared high competition of the Spanish agriculture and their consent with further enlargement was contingent on either concessions by Spain in other fields or structural changes in EC's policies. A part of the hypothesis is also the assumption that even though Spain was faced with long transition periods, Spanish agriculture mostly benefitted from the entry into the EC and experienced further modernization. Keywords Agriculture, Common Agricultural Policy, regional policy, EC, EEC, EU, Spain
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Legal regulation of ecological agriculture
Daičová, Iveta ; Damohorský, Milan (advisor) ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to give an insight in the legislation of the organic farming in the Czech Republic. The thesis is divided into four main parts. The first part presents an introduction to the topic, defines basic concepts such as sustainable agriculture, organic farming, organic farm or organic product. It outlines the historical development of organic farming, its basic principles and objectives, it also deals with genetic engineering and the reasons why they are not used in organic farming, and finally the relationship between organic farming and the protection of individual components of the environment. The second part describes the international regulation of organic agriculture, emphasis is placed on the Convention on Biological Diversity, the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements and Codex Alimentarius. The aim is to outline activities of the most important organizations, which were at the beginning of the development of organic agriculture in the world and in the Czech Republic, and which significantly contributed to designing the guidelines and the first laws governing organic farming and they are, in my opinion, up to the present day in a position where they not only can continue to intervene in the rulemaking but also given the gained experince they are supposed and...
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Foreign trade with domestic wine
Brzák, Ondřej ; Šánová, Petra (advisor) ; Dědina, Daniel (referee)
The bachelor thesis pursues foreign trade comparison and evaluation of the BRUMOVIN CZ Ltd. with the Czech Republic foreign trade in the area of wine on the European market. The theoretical knowledge synthesis provides the right environment to understand the following analysis of the Czech Republic wine market. It was possible to create precise analysis of the European wine market of the BRUMOVIN CZ Ltd. by its mutual co-operation with this company. It is also enabled to understand the causes of the economic growth or slump which are created by internal or external influence.
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Benefits and side effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on Czech agriculture
Homoláč, Luděk ; Tomšík, Karel (advisor) ; Homolka, Jaroslav (referee)
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the oldest policy of European Union. Its beginning is dated to 1962 and for the whole time it has been the most important policy of the Union. Up to the half of the EU budget goes to this policy and therefore there is a thorough characteristic of history of the Union and the developement of the CAP in EU in this dissertation thesis. The aim of the thesis is to define the influence of CAP on Czech agriculture. To proof this influence on Czech agriculture there are economic and material indicators included in specific agricultural companies managing 7000 ha of farm lands in Hradec Králové region. The influence of restructuralization of Common organisation of the sugar market in EU is also included. The dissertation thesis compehensively suggests how to cover financing of CAP in the new period between 2014 and 2020.
There are also specifics of the Poland agriculture, specificaly the production stucture and the structuring of subsidies. There is an analysis of enconomical results of agricultural companies in Czech Republic and Poland compared to the EU. There is also an analysis of differences of the unified payment between years 2014-2020 and years 2007-2013 in Czech republic with evaluation of the differences between Czech and Poland in the new period.
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The support of small farmers in the Czech Republic and in Federal Republic of Germany
Náprstková, Michaela ; Korcová, Renata (advisor) ; Jansa, Viktor (referee)
At the beginning of the work is explained the system of agricultural subsidies and after that is analysed status of agriculture in the Czech Republic and Germany. It deals with both livestock and crop production, the situation of farm products on the market, but also a problem of bureaucracy. It is closely associated with agricultural subsidies and with subsidies in general. Without subsidies, however, farmers would not be able to fully cover their costs and would hardly achieve profit. Especially small business find compliance all the conditions for getting grants difficult. Lots of them because of it completely come to end. It is generally talking about favouring large farms, which easily reach the necessary and often unnecessary subsidies. Ministry of Agriculture denies it, the real farmers farming on small plots feel that way. Interviews with them show how they see the situation of small farmers in their countries, Germany and the Czech Republic. Whether the support system in general and their possibilities of market penetration satisfy them or if there are some things that they would like to modify or completely change. Finally, work will evaluate the gathered information, and assess the situation in both countries.
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