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Information Society in the European Union
Šusteková, Eva ; Abrhám, Josef (advisor) ; Lechner, Tomáš (referee)
On the topic of development of information society in Europe with emphases on activities performed by the European Union. A short remark on origin and development of the concept of information society and general economic impact of using information and communication technologies. It brings together a summary of policies and strategies encouraging the development of information society carried out in between the years 2000-2010. A note on preparation of strategy on information society for 2011-2015. Financing programmes using assets of the budget of the European Union for financial period 2007-2013. European Commission and the Information Society and Media Directorate General provide the administrative process support and the background of the preparation for information society policies. An overview of the European statistical data on information society. A list of the European legislation concerning information society with an aim to support use of information and communication technologies.
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Serbian National Interests and Entrance into EU in the Current Political Spectrum
Zapletalová, Kristýna ; Rataj, Jan (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (referee)
The aim of this paper is to answer the question how the possible entrance of Serbia into EU fits into definition of national interest on the Serbian political scene. First, the theoretical formulation of the concept "national interest" is laid out. The second chapter includes description of fundamental foreign and political issues, which had to be solved after the fall of the previous regime. The third chapter characterizes current Serbian political system and programmes of main political parties. The fourth chapter compares official goals of the government with public opinion polls as regards the entrance of Serbia into EU. The second part of the paper is dedicated to description of particular steps of Serbia towards full membership and respective attitudes of political parties.
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The Czech Republic in the European Union: Priorities of the Czech Presidency
Nekovářová, Lenka ; Hnát, Pavel (advisor) ; Popovová, Marie (referee)
The thesis deals with the position of the Czech Republic in the European Union in the context of the priorities of the Czech presidency. Czech Republic chaired the EU in the first half of 2009. Before starting the Czech Presidency, the Czech Republic chose its main priorities as the 3E's -- Economy, Energy and the European Union in the world, in which all the efforts were aimed. First chapter focuses on the solution of the global economic crisis in the EU and in the Czech Republic and also on the current economic situation in selected EU countries. Second chapter is dedicated to the gas crisis that hit Europe in early 2009 and to the way how the European countries dealt with it. The latest changes in the EU energy policy are also described. The final part deals mainly with the Lisbon Treaty and its impact on the position of the EU on the international scene.
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Environmental Protection and the EU Competitiveness
Ježová, Zdeňka ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Popovová, Marie (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with a mutual relation between the competitiveness and environmental protection in the European Union. At the beginning, there is mentioned, why environmental protection has become an important priority. The main task of this bachelor thesis is to characterize a mutual interaction between environmental and economic objectives in the EU. There is described the EU environmental policy and its impact on the EU competitiveness. The EU strategy to strengthen its competitiveness is characterised as well.
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Macroeconomical Competitiveness of European Union after 10 years of Lisbon Process Implementation (macroeconomical insight)
Strážnický, Matúš ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Popovová, Marie (referee)
The competitiveness of countries and regional integrations is nowadays an idea that may be hard to define. Many times we don't know what lies behind the idea of competitiveness. Bachelor thesis tries to characterize European competitiveness, identify the processes that lead to it's increase and tries to connect the idea of competitiveness with the macroeconomical layer. The thesis identifies parameters that influence competitiveness and compares them with other countries. In the end it evaluates in what expense was the enhancing of competitiveness successful and tries to introduce new trends for the European competitiveness.
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Reform of the European institutions in terms of the Lisbon Treaty
Kozáková, Kateřina ; Neumann, Pavel (advisor) ; Tunkrová, Věra (referee)
The bachelor thesis describes and explains the reform of the European institutions in terms of the Lisbon Treaty. The first chapter focuses on the Treaty of Lisbon in general. The next chapters are organized according to the main institutions of the European Union: European Parliament, Council of the European Union, European Commission, and European Council. Each institution is described from its creation, evolution, organization, and competences to its reform within the Treaty of Lisbon. The conclusion chapter briefly reviews the changes adopted by the Treaty of Lisbon.
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EU Structural Funds in the Czech Republic (including the case of the small-sized Czech firm as an applicant)
Tománková, Eva ; Černá, Iveta (advisor) ; Taušer, Josef (referee)
The main intention of the author consisted in understandable presentation of the application of Structural and Cohesion Funds in a member state of the European Union, particularly in the case of a small-sized company. The purpose of the diploma thesis was to provide the reader with an overview of European Union Structural and Cohesion Funds in general and of those available in the Czech Republic as well. The opportunities to gain funding from European Union of one small sized Czech firm were examined in the last part of the essay. The case study of Czech enterprise proved that the co-financing of projects in a member state can be cumbersome but also very beneficial when approached properly.
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The economy of the European Union and its importance in the global economy
Musilová, Lenka ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Bič, Josef (referee)
This thesis examines contemporaneous state of economy of the European Union, factors influencing it and importance of these factors for the EUs position in the global economy.The first chapter is concerned with characteristics as the economic output, area and population of the EU, its macroeconomic situation and differentiation of member states. The second chapter analyses factors affecting external economic relations between EU and third countries. The third chapter evaluates previous findings and uses them to describe the position and status of the EU in the global economy.
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The Perspective of EU Common Immigration Policy
Kuzmič, Michal ; Abrhám, Josef (advisor) ; Popovová, Marie (referee)
The bachelor thesis The Perspective of EU Common Immigration Policy is primarily focused on economic and in particular work immigration to EU from third countries. The thesis lays out two questions. First question is in what way the differences between supranational and intergovernmental (or national) approach towards legal work immigration are demonstrated among the EU members and institutions. Second question seeks to determine the will of states to liberalize the entry and residence of immigrants on their labour markets. In order to answer the outlined questions I conducted an analysis of the reactions of states and European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) to the questions presented by European Commission in its Green Paper on an EU Approach to Managing Economic Migration. The findings of the analysis show that majority of states (11 of 13) prefer lower degree of harmonization whereas only 2 states along with EESC support more comprehensive harmonization. Also, 10 out of 13 states have "restrictive" or "rather restrictive" preferences towards further liberalization of immigration policy whereas the other three countries and EESC are considered to be "liberal" and "rather liberal". This outcome supports the realist theory of migration policies, which stresses the dominant role of states and their unwillingness to give up their competences to supranational institutions.
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Economic aspects of potential changes of Russian natural gas supply routes to the European Union
Holanová, Tereza ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Horák, Jiří (referee)
Natural gas plays a significant role in Europe's energy consumption. Nine EU countries are net importers of gas, six states buy the commodity from a single supplier. Some EU member states experienced how complicated can a shortage of natural gas be in 2006, 2007 and especially in January 2009 when supplies from Russia were interrupted. As a consequence the European Union began to talk about diversification. There are several scenarios how to increase energy security of the EU. My thesis deals with these scenarios in terms of their price, additional cost and probability.
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