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The European Union from the perspective of a citizen of the Czech Republic
MALECHA, Lukáš
The European Union has had a big impact in citizens' lives of the Czech Republic since 2004 when it joined the EU. The bachelor's thesis focuses on the founding and expansion of the European Union, the accession if the Czech Republic and advantages and disadvantages of European Union membership for Czech citizens. In the bachelor thesis there is carried out an extensive analysis of individual programming periods and benefits of subsidies from EU funds. The aim is to determine the attitude of Czech citizens towards the EU and their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with EU membership. The results of this evaluation are detected by a survey and used for organizations which inform the public about EU for example Europe Direct Information Centre.
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The Change of Trust of Greece in the EU Institutions in Connection with the Migrant Crisis
Voříšková, Tereza ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Stejskalová, Kristýna (referee)
This Bachelor thesis analyses the extent of how the trust of Greece in EU institutions has changed in connection with the current migrant crisis. The thesis is divided into two main chapters. The first one is describing the migrant crisis, explaining facts of its progression, main routes used by migrants and their usual destinations. It also aims to determine the genuine impact of the migrant crisis on Greece and its economic, political and security situations. The second chapter is focused mainly on roles and reactions of EU institutions during the financial as well as migrant crisis and also to the consequential change of mutual relations and trust between the European Union and Greece.
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Lobbying as a tool for shaping European legislation: the case of a ban on animal testing of cosmetics
Krhlová, Martina ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Štěpánek, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis looks at lobbying as one of the tools for shaping European legislation. Lobbyists are often perceived as carriers of valuable information that make it possible for decision-makers to get expert opinions and perspectives directly from the industry. Lobbyists can therefore make a significant contribution to policy making and to improving European legislation that meets the needs of stakeholders. The main objective of the thesis is to find out in what way and at what stages the interest groups participate and intervene in the EU decision-making process and identify the access points through which they can enter into the legislative process. For the sake of clarity, this research is applied to a particular case of lobbying in the field of animal testing of cosmetics, which has greatly influenced the legal regulation of the area.
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The phenomenon of Spitzenkandidaten and its impact on the interinstitutional dynamics of the EU
Shkaruppa, Maria ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
The bachelor thesis describes the process of the enforcement of the Spitzenkandidaten procedure into the EU political system. An ambiguous definition of the relation between the Commission Presidential Candidacy and European election results, which emerged in the Lisbon treaty, led to the creation of a new political precedent that has real chances to remain for good among the EU procedures. This thesis will nevertheless show that suggestions that the victorious party should name its candidate for the Commission President are not new. Moreover, it will highlight that the process of the EP and the Commission getting ever closer is a result of a much longer process. The arguments for and against the new procedure will be presented and evaluated. A detailed insight into the European elections 2014 campaign, which had a partially different shape due to the Spitzenkandidaten process, will provide the reader with an answer to which extent the outcomes of the elections were actually influenced by this exact procedure. The same objective is borne in mind when the candidacy of Jean-Claude Juncker is evaluated, proving him to be, although elected not traditionally, a candidate-as-usual. Lastly, this bachelor thesis tackles the problems of disturbed interinstitutional dynamics due to the enforcement of...
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Job opportunities in the EU institutions and language skills. Case study aimed to staff at regional offices of the Czech Republic in the EU
HANDLÍŘOVÁ, Barbora
The goal of this work is to confirm or disprove the hypothesis that all official languages of the EU are not being used within the EU institutions and the number of used languages is reduced significantly. We will also find out languages and other criteria which are required from potential applicants for a job in the EU institutions and in the regional representations. This work is divided into two parts theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part, the author describes the institutional system of EU and Permanent Regional Representations of the Czech Republic to the European Union. Moreover we will focuses on the division of languages into 3 groups official, authentic and working languages. And the last chapter is dedicated to the recrutement of employees to the EU institutions. The practical part will follow the theoretical one with a case study based on two types of questionnaires concerning workers of Permanent Regional Representations of the Czech Republic to the EU and their linguistic and other qualifications required for this job.
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Institutions of the EU - development, transformation, difficulty
Pavlík, Jaroslav ; Jeníček, Vladimír (advisor) ; Tunkrová, Věra (referee)
This diploma thesis seeks to summarize the institutional development taken by the European Union so far (with a particular view to the changes brought about by the Treaty of Lisbon), and, based on this, to provide an assessment of the direction into which the European Union is headed at the beginning of this decade. Within this context, my thesis attempts to outline the various alternative scenarios for the future development of the EU's institutional framework; the likely candidates, to put it simply, are, on the one hand, even deeper integration in the form of a fiscal and political union, or, conversely, the abandonment of the idea of closer cooperation. Since the beginnings of the 1950s, the European Communities and, later, the European Union have been developing towards ever-increasing integration. Even today, one observes obvious tendencies towards intensifying this integration. However, this does not allow for the unambiguous conclusion that the European Union must result in the creation of a fiscal and political union. It is perfectly conceivable that the elected political representatives of individual member states may assume the opposite view, and that tendencies will prevail within the European Union towards a more informal collaboration among separate countries. The present work also attempts a comparison of the views held by politicians, political scientists, analysts, and intellectuals. One finds that even these authors do not arrive at clear-cut conclusions, nor should one expect them to be able to make such conclusions. This thesis draws attention to a number of contradictory aspects - chiefly among them the violation of the Maastricht criteria, and the obvious breach of Article 125 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which prohibits mutual financial assistance.
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Recruitment and selection of workers into the institutions of the European Union
Vašková, Lucie ; Šikýř, Martin (advisor) ; Mazánek, Oldřich (referee)
The thesis contains a description of the recruitment and selection for the European Union institutions. This HR activity is provided by the European Personnel Selection Office, which initiated "EPSO Development Programme" following an audit of personnel actions and complaints of applicants in 2010. The EPSO Development Programme's aim was to improve the recruitment and selection process including the shortening its duration and testing part. The goal of the thesis is to compare the recruitment and selection process before the EPSO Development Programme and after it. Then to evaluate how successful it was.
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Community Programmes of the European Union Educational and Cultural field-The Possibility of the International Partnership and Cooperation for the Subjects in the South Bohemia
BAUEROVÁ, Lucie
The main aim of those theses is to present possibilities of financial support from the EU {--} Community programmes of the EU for the subjects in the South Bohemia region. There are mentioned chances of the financial support from the EU in the first part of my work. The next part presents community programmes in the field of education and culture and activities, which can be supported from these sources. Statistic figures of the financial support status are named at the end of each chapter. There is an example of the successful apply of grants as well as some successful projects realised by subjects from South Bohemia in the conclusion part of my theses. The goal of this section was to present the application process. Theses contain also some recommendation for the future increase of the financial drawing from discussed available sources.
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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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