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Marlene Wind – EU-ekspert og flittig debattør – giver her sit bud på Europas tilstand. Hun frygter, at antiglobalisme og identitetspolitik vinder over dialog, samarbejde og liberale værdier. Den tendens, Marlene Wind går op imod, kalder hun tribalisering – det fænomen at befolkningsgrupper søger sammen med dem, der ligner dem selv, og bekæmper dem, der står udenfor. Vi ser det i Storbritannien, hvor Brexit-tilhængere beskylder deres modstandere for forræderi og stempler EU-tilhængerne som upatriotiske forrædere, og i populistiske bevægelser i Ungarn og Polen, hvor demokratiet har lidt nederlag over for illiberalismen, og hvor frie valg, et uafhængigt retssystem og en fri og kritisk presse står for fald. Denne bog er et wakeupcall på et tidspunkt, hvor tidligere forsvarere for liberale værdier i stigende grad tier stille eller ligefrem slutter sig til det voksende kor af tribalister. Bogen – som også findes på spansk og engelsk – opmuntrer alle europæere til at forsvare vores liberale værdier, det sande demokrati og det europæiske retssamfund.

Denne fremstilling udgør en del af værket ”Obligationsret”, som blev grundlagt af professor Bernhard Gomard. Værket er opdelt i 4 bøger, hvor denne 3. del behandler emner som kreditor- og debitorskifte samt fordringers ophør.Som Obligationsret 1., 2. og 4. Del har Obligationsret 3. Del til formål at formidle et overblik over gældende dansk obligationsret, gøre rede for almindelige obligationsretlige principper i dansk ret og at illustrere samspillet mellem forskellige regler. Skønt formålet er at redegøre for gældende dansk ret, indeholder fremstillingen en række henvisninger til norsk, svensk, tysk, engelsk, fransk ret og US-amerikansk ret. Der henvises i fremstillingen også til de lovgivningsovervejelser, der er kommet til udtryk i nogle nyere europæiske »privatkodifikationer«, nemlig DCFR (Draft Common Frame of Reference), PECL (Principles of European Contract Law) og UPICC (Uniform Principles of International Commercial Contracts).Sammenligner man den nu foreliggende udgave af Obligationsret 3. Del med førsteudgaven fra 1993, vil man se, at der reelt er tale om en ny bog. Størstedelen af teksten er om- eller nyskrevet. Som følge af ændringerne i lovgivningen siden 1993 – bl.a. nye regler om digital tinglysning i 2006, om forældelse i 2007, om rekonstruktion i 2011 og om meget andet (herunder om betalinger, hvidvask og kapitalmarkeder) – og tilkomsten af mange nye retsafgørelser og litterære bidrag er det begrænset, hvad der står tilbage af den oprindelige tekst, der blev trykt for 25 år siden.Der er i almindelighed ikke taget hensyn til materiale, der er fremkommet efter den 3. januar 2018.

Erik Ravnholt er dansk, men bor i Bruxelles, hvor han arbejder i EF-kommissionen. Om natten er han begyndt at drømme om en ven, han havde i sin ungdom. Drømmene er så foruroligende, påtrængende og detaljerede, at Erik ikke kan glemme dem. De spøger i ham både nat og dag. Derfor sætter han sig for at undersøge, hvad der ligger bag. Det viser sig hurtigt, at Eriks drømme har rod i virkeligheden på en uhyggelig måde. Ungdomsvennen blev for nyligt fundet druknet i en sø på Hillerød-egnen, og meget tyder på, der er tale om selvmord. Da Erik rejser til Danmark i et EF-anliggende, begynder han at samle brikkerne i den mærkelige sag, og der tegner sig efterhånden et chokkerende billede af vennens sidste levetid."Forfatteren bruger spændingsromanens teknik meget dygtigt ... Unægtelig flot drejet. Forhåbentlig er EF-arbejdet så kedeligt, at Adriansen skriver videre uden for kontortiden..." – InformationBenny Adriansen er født i 1939 i Andst ved Vejen. Han er cand.mag. i historie og fransk og underviste fra 1975 til 1979 som adjunkt ved Randers Amtsgymnasium. Han har sidenhen blandt andet været oversætter ved Europaparlamentet i Bruxelles.I 1986 udkom Benny Adriansens debutroman "Hykleren", som blev modtaget med begejstring af anmelderne. Den er siden udsendt i såvel paperback- som bogklubudgaver.

“Fra kold krig til lakridspiber” er EU-kommisær Connie Hedegaards personlige beretning om Europa.Det er i år 10 år siden, at EU blev udvidet med 10 nationer i Øst- og Centraleuropa - udvidelsen, som blev forhandlet på plads i december 2002 under det danske EU-formandskab i København. Det er også i år - 25. maj - at der er valg til Europa-parlamentet.Det har fået den danske EU-kommisær, Connie Hedegaard, til at tænke tilbage - og frem. Tilbage på dengang, hvor Danmark endnu ikke var med i det europæiske samarbejde og på sine mange rejser i de østeuropæiske lande op gennem 1980erne. Og frem mod det Europa, som vi skal satse på fremover.

Hvis EU er svaret – hvad er så spørgsmålet?Dette spørgsmål bliver besvaret i aktuelle, udfordrende og overraskende artikler fra engagerede mennesker med bud på hvordan de europæiske udfordringer kan takles, hvordan EU's fremtid skal udformes, og hvordan vi kan vi kan få løsninger på konkrete problemer.Nyt Europa er en non-profit organisation, som arbejder for et progressivt EU. Organisationen har udgivet bogen "Hvis EU er svaret, hvad er så spørgsmålet?", som ved hjælp af en lang række eksperters udtalelser om EU's fremtid sætter fokus på de problemer, EU står over for i dag.

I Det er (ikke) sort/hvidt udfordrer Morten Messerschmidt og Morten Helveg hinandens argumenter og bekymringer over udviklingen i et kriseramt EU. Politisk kæmper de for to helt modsatte positioner: Messerschmidt vil have punkteret EU's stigende magt, mens Helveg vil have den udbygget. Begge er dog enige om, at status quo langtfra er gangbar, og i glimt opstår ligefrem enighed. Bogen henvender sig til EU-interesserede, men nysgerrige og andre novicer kan sagtens hoppe på her. Bogen er forsynet med masser af forklarende faktabokse og er med både glimt i øjet, stor seriøsitet og internationalt udsyn en glimrende introduktion til Danmarks fremtid i EU's komplekse og omdiskuterede politiske arena.

I Det tandløse monster i Bruxelles tager Hans Magnus Enzensberger læseren med på en rejse for at finde virkeligheden og sandheden om EU. Turen går til Bruxelles men også til Strasbourg og Luxembourg. Her hersker bureaukratiet og bureaukraterne enevældigt. I modsætning til andre skeptikere lader Enzensberger virkelighedens absurditeter komme til orde. Det har været hans metode siden gennembruddet med Forhøret i Havanna, 1971.Han lader agurkernes krumning, wc-kummernes design og porreforordningerne så at sige tale for sig selv.

”Et kernepunkt i fyrre års debat om Danmarks forhold til EF/EU har været det nordiske. EF-tilhængere har med eller mod bedre viden bagatelliseret dets betydning, EF-modstanderne til gengæld gjort det nordiske til det centrale i deres argumentation – bl.a. til stor forundring for folk i Foreningen Norden.”I slutningen af det tyvende århundrede rasede diskussionen for og imod EU i høj grad. Foreningen Norden, der siden sin stiftelse i 1919 havde fået mindre og mindre betydning og magt, valgte at gå ind i diskussionen for at belyse den fra et nordisk, ikke blot et dansk synspunkt.”Korsbånd og stjerner” er skrevet af Søren Sørensen og udgivet af Foreningen Norden, som han var en aktiv stemme inden for. Den kaster et spændende og nuanceret lys over den langvarige debat for og imod EU. Bogen udkom første gang i 1998.Søren Sørensen (1937-2018) var en dansk forfatter, digter, oversætter og billedkunstner. Han var oprindeligt uddannet skolelærer, men kunne fra 1985 hellige sig arbejdet som forfatter og billedkunstner på fuldtid. Hans imponerende forfatterskab spænder over fagbøger om historie og kultur, romaner og noveller, digte samt oversættelse af digte og sange fra islandsk, finsk, svensk og norsk.

"This edited volume offers an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of the implementation of climate change policies worldwide, exploring ways of improving key regulatory mechanisms. This book is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available as Open Access. Check our website - Cambridge Core - for details"--

Written by experts, this long-established, fully revised and definitive guide to the workings of the European Union provides comprehensive, straightforward and readable coverage of this sometimes misunderstood and complex institution.

This book investigates the multifaceted conflicts of sovereignty in the recent crises in the European Union.

This book studies how domestic contestation influences the security policy of small states within the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).A multinational group of expert contributors consider how domestic contestation is translated into small states' foreign policies, how membership of international organisations alters attitudes to security policy in small states and how patterns of small states' behaviour across domestic traditions, security cultures and geographical location can be identified. Anchored in new institutionalism, the book explores the influence of international organisations on security policies and the tensions created by connecting four strands of literature, on Europeanisation, on the impact of and on institutions, on the way foreign and security policy is made, and the security/strategic culture of small states.It will be of interest to all scholars and students of international relations, security studies, EU studies, area studies and politics.

This book explores the concept and practice of resilience that has generated much debate among both scholars and practitioners. The contributions propose a new understanding of resilience, both as a quality and a way of thinking, taking it to the level of 'the person' and 'the local', to argue that a more sustainable way to govern the world today is bottom-up and inside-out.While carrying a seemingly unifying message of self-reliance, adaptation and survival in the face of adversity, resilience curiously continues to appear as 'all things to all people', making it hard for the EU and international institutions to make full use of its arresting potential. Engendering resilience today, in the highly volatile and uncertain world hit by crises, pandemic and diminishing control, becomes a priority as never before. This book develops a more comprehensive view of resilience by looking at it both as a quality of the system and a way of thinking inherent to 'the local' that cannot be engineered from the outside. It is argued in this volume that in some cases the level of 'the person', especially the person's sense of what constitutes a 'good life', may be the most appropriate focus for understanding change and strategic adaptation in response to it. This understanding widens the scope of discussion from what makes an entity, system or person more adaptable, to how one can best govern today to establish a stable equilibrium between the global and the local, the external and the internal, and become more responsive to the challenges and changes of today's highly uncertain world.The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Contemporary Security Policy.

This book explores the modes of European Union (EU) contestation which are mobilized by populist parties and seeks to unearth the relationship of such contestation with populist discourses.

This volume explores how the recent intra-EU migrations reflect new and more complex patterns of mobility, increasingly uncertain and unstable, involving both natives and naturalised migrants.

This volume examines what the concept of ideology can add to our understanding of the European Union, and the way in which the process of European integration has inflected the ideological battles that define contemporary European politics, both nationally and transnationally.Contemporary debates on the nature and value of the European Union often touch on the notion of ideology. The EU's critics routinely describe it as an ideologically-motivated project, associating it from the left with a form of 'neo-liberal capitalism' or from the right with 'liberal multiculturalism'. Its defenders often praise it in explicitly post- or anti-ideological terms, as a regulatory body focused on the production of output legitimacy, or as a bulwark against dangerous ideological revivals in the form of nationalism and populism. Yet the existing academic literature linking the study of the EU with that of ideologies is surprisingly thin. This volume brings together a number of original contributions by leading international scholars and takes an approach that is both historical and conceptual, probing the EU's ideological roots, while also laying the grounds for a reappraisal of its contemporary ideological make-up.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book examines the Islamic headscarf cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union and places these in context of the Islamophobia existing across Europe. It assesses how EU law can best protect women who want to wear headscarves at work for religious reasons and why this protection is important not only for the women but also for the EU.

The book addresses the impact of the European Union (EU) on subnational mobilization in small unitary states.Located at the intersection of contributions from the literatures on multilevel governance and Europeanization, this book offers a new theoretical framework to account for state rescaling processes in small unitary states. By means of a comparative analysis of eight small unitary states in Europe, this book shows that the impact of the EU on subnational mobilization is filtered through domestic mediating factors which can lead to three possible outcomes: decentralization, recentralization or no change. The book offers a balanced combination of analytical clarity and the richness of empirical accounts in a wide diversity of case studies. It sheds a new light on the 'hybrid nature' of the European polity and demonstrates that member state governments have remained the most important pieces of the European puzzle. Overall, it arrives at two conclusions: first, that we are witnessing a 'transformation of the state' rather than its demise; second, the notion of a 'Europe of the Regions' in small unitary states was no more than a 'damp squib'.¿The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Regional & Federal Studies.

According to the European Commission, two recent policies: the Digital Service Act and the Digital Market Act will allow for the regulation of a significant part of the EU Digital Single Market (DSM), to an extent similar to the creation of the traditional internal market in the early 1990s. The provisions are intended to improve conditions in the EU DSM to ensure that the market is as free and fair as it is safe for users of the digital economy.This interdisciplinary book analyses the impact of digital technologies on specific markets and, more broadly, the society and the economy. It identifies and assesses the different features, challenges, trends and dimensions of the EU DSM, from a legal and economic viewpoint, and also from a Polish perspective. Poland is presented as one of the EU countries participating in the creation of the EU DSM and is analysed alongside the average, as well as the best and the worst performing EU member states and compared with other non-EU members.The book addresses several broad areas in which the implications of digitalisation are particularly visible, and which are important to the "average" person: giant online platforms, freedom of speech, e-commerce, digital levy, energy infrastructure, and the labour market. The authors have presented opportunities and threats related to the functioning of the digital market. These opportunities and threats are typical of highly developed countries while reflecting the specific features of the EU DSM. The starting point of the considerations are the diverse experiences of the EU member states.The book adds a voice to the public debate on the role of the digital economy in the contemporary world and will be a useful guide for students and researchers in economics, law, and international relations.Chapters 1 and 2 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at ww.routledge.com . They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This book provides an in-depth guide to researchers and practitioners who are interested in analyzing the evolution of EU law from a national and comparative constitutional law perspective.

This book fosters critical reflection on Europe's place in a fast-changing global environment, covering the soft and hard facets of EU power along the spectrum of low politics-high politics.

This book examines how Europe-wide issues - such as immigration, cross-national redistribution and further European integration - have reshaped electoral democracy and party competition across Europe.After decades of scholars and commentators bemoaning the limited politicization of the EU nationally, European issues have come to dominate domestic electoral politics. From the Eurozone crisis to the struggle of dealing with growing numbers of migrants and refugees entering Europe, EU-wide issues now occupy a salient part of the domestic political debate. This book examines what drives public opinion towards some of the key Europe-wide issues of the day and how these EU issues shapes electoral behaviour and party competition. It brings together leading scholars from different fields to explore what shapes preferences towards Europe-wide policy issues, how they influence electoral behaviour and party fortunes and what the implications are for the quality of European democracy. Overall, this book deepens our understanding of the state of European democracy domestically in an era in which national and Europe-wide problems and policy solutions are inextricably linked.The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume attempts to examine the many possible causes of Brexit. The conceptual 'peg' on which the volume hangs is that, irrespective of one's views on whether Britain's exit from the EU was a good or a bad thing, Brexit can justifiably be seen as yet another example of a British policy fiasco. Put simply, the British political elite was not at its best.The collective concern of this volume is twofold. First, it advances possible explanations of how the Brexit issue arose. Why was Britain's membership of the EU thought to be so problematic for so many members of the British political elite and ultimately for a majority of voters? How did we get to June 2016 and the Brexit Referendum? Secondly, the volume examines how the issue was managed (or mismanaged) following the referendum result up until the Withdrawal Agreement in March 2019. The contributions to this volume explore these questions by looking at Brexit from different analytical angles. Some authors explore the long-term causes of Brexit, by disentangling the fraught relationship between the UK and the EU, which had provided the Brexit train with steam; others explore the highly conflictual domestic political dynamics in the run-up to the referendum and in the negotiations of a Brexit deal.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

This book offers new insights into the current, highly complex border transitions taking place at the EU internal and external border areas, as well as globally. It focuses on new frontiers and intersections between borders, borderlands and resilience, developing new understandings of resilience through the prism of borders. The book provides new perspectives into how different groups of people and communities experience, adapt and resist the transitions and uncertainties of border closures and securitization in their everyday and professional lives. The book also provides new methodological guidelines for the study of borders and multi-sited bordering and resilience processes.The book bridges border studies and social scientific resilience research in new and innovative. It will be of interest to students and scholars in geography, political studies, international relations, security studies and anthropology.