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Democratic deficit of the EU: options of evolvement
Tomášová, Tereza ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
Diploma thesis " Democratic deficit of the EU: options of evolvement" deals with democracy and democratic legitimacy of the European Union. It represents a particular concept of the EU's democratic deficit, which is ambiguous term, but generally indicates a lack of democracy- particularly the lack of popular participation in the governance or a lack of democratic legitimacy of EU institutions and decision-making. The aim of my work was, according to the hypotheses to determine what is causing the EU's democratic deficit, whether it is a serious problem that should be addressed at European level, and if so, what are the possibilities for minimizing or further evolvement. To explore this issue further, I examine the theory of democratic legitimacy in the introduction and divide it into the "input and output" legitimacy. Subsequently, I also introduced methodology and the current debate on democratic deficit in the leading periodicals, dealing with the EU and think tanks. The second part deals with the history of the democratic deficit and its various definitions, follows with a presentation of my two hypotheses dealing with the question whether or not the EU's democratic deficit is a problem. In the third part, my two hypotheses are tested on the project of the Single European Sky, which aims to...
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Life of the Czechs in Brussels. Glimpse in the World of the Czech Euro Bureacrats
Králíčková, Lucie ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Bezoušková, Markéta (referee)
The thesis provides a glimpse into lives of the Czechs working in the EU institutions. Accent is on the theory of transnationalism as contemporary approach to international migration. The paper focuses on group of migrants for which mobility and high qualification is characteristical as important elements within the current knowledge based society. It deals with migrants who are living their lives in two or more countries at once and who stay in close touch with the country of their origin. Focus of the work is aimed at the concept of temporarity as a key dimension that has influence on strategy, lifestyle and values of the Czech transnational migrants in Brussels. Conclusions are based on qualitative research composed of longterm participant observation, formal semi-structured and informal interviews. The aim of the work is to show the dimenson of temporarity by using material culture as a method on strategies of living and consumation and also how are the Czechs in Brussels biased by a specific environment of the EU institutions. Further to find out whether it is possible to consider Czech migrants as transnational migrants with regards to the definition of transnational migration and following the relationship to the Czech Republic and Belgium, contacts with home. KEY WORDS: transnational...
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The right of petition to the European Parliament
Tycová, Tereza ; Grmelová, Nicole (advisor) ; Hubková, Pavlína (referee)
This thesis focuses on the right of petition to the European Parliament. The aim of the thesis was to provide the basic information about this institute and introduce it as an effective and beneficial instrument contributing to democratic principles in the European Union. The paper is divided into five chapters, in which is described development of the right to petition, procedure for submitting a petition, activities of Committee on Petitions. Further the paper evaluates exercise of this right according to different factors and finally, it compares the role of the Committee on Petitions with the work of the European Ombudsman.
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National Coordination of Police Cooperation in the European Union - Case Study of the Czech Republic
Strouhalová, Jana ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
Police cooperation is an important part of EU's internal security, but its pursuance differs in each member state. This master thesis focuses on the coordination of police cooperation from the Czech Republic's point of view. The objective is to interpret the coordination mechanism in the Czech Republic and to analyse its level of centralization and the method of management. For this purpose, theories of liberal intergovernmental approach and institutionalism are engaged. The partial objective is to examine the influence of Europeanization on the coordination mechanism. Analysis is carried out on a systemic level, connecting the national and European coordination levels. The coordination mechanism of European police cooperation in the Czech Republic proved to be quite centralized with some decentralized elements and hierarchical management structure. The Europeanization affects the police cooperation in all its dimensions, with downloading, uploading and crossloading.
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Trust in European and International Institutions - April 2015
Čadová, Naděžda
April survey of CVVM asked questions concerning to the trust of people in the international institutions and European institutions. Beside the trust in the EU as a whole, we asked about citizens' trust in the European commission, the European Parliament, the President of the European Council (sometimes referred to as the President of the European Union) and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (sometimes referred to as the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs). Two questions about trust of people in the North Atlantic Alliance and the United Nations organisation have been also included into the survey.
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The European Ombudsman
Eiglová, Kateřina ; Grmelová, Nicole (advisor) ; Dymáčková, Pavla (referee)
The aim of this thesis is explanation the role of European ombudsman. The first part of this thesis describes history and development of European ombudsman, including legal bases. In the second part it aims to activities of European ombudsman, and define ombudsman authority. In this part is also description of the European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour, one of the most important documents for ombudsman. The third part is focused on complaints, the most frequently complaints. In this part is for completeness add graphs and tables, for better idea. The last part describes the case of own- initiative inquiry, it is the case from year 2011. This case deals with human rights.
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The European Ombudsman
Warchalová, Kamila ; Grmelová, Nicole (advisor) ; Chvátalová, Iva (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to introduce the role of the European ombudsman by describing the history of this office and the legal bases defining its competences. It also defines his relationship towards the European citizens and towards the various institutions at the European level. This thesis is focused on the description of the mechanisms of inquiries of the European ombudsman and on the characterization of various fields of these inquiries and also on more detailed description of the initiation, progress and conditions necessary for the successful conclusion of the case. Finally, this thesis deals with a specific own-initiative inquiry closed in 2011 as a demonstration of the work and achievements of this institution. Mainly English primary and secondary sources are used in this thesis. The sources basically consist of the Treaties on the European Union, the European Ombudsman's annual report, his publications, various articles on this subject or other Internet sources.
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Process of Institutional Reforms of European Union in Light of its Enlargement
Pohunková, Hana ; Neumann, Pavel (advisor) ; Šaroch, Stanislav (referee)
The topic of this diploma thesis is the Process of institutional reforms of EU in light of its enlargement. The thesis is divided into two parts -- theoretical part and practical part. Theoretical part talks about European treaties that founded or reformed five main European institutions -- Parliament, Council, Commission, Court of Justice and Court of Auditors. In separate chapter the thesis talks about Lisbon Treaty and this chapter is followed by description of the main institutions. Practical part was based on original research in which almost two hundred respondents took part and which was focused on the knowledge of respondets of the administration of EU. The results of the research were analysed in form of commented graphs and tables. Based on the research, last chapter provides recommendations that should help increase the knowledge of Czechs of the EU administration.
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