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The Australian National University's Centre for European Studies (ANUCES) is an initiative involving six ANU Colleges (Arts and Social Sciences; Law; Business and Economics; Asia and the Pacific; Medicine, Biology and Environment; and Engineering and Computer Science). It focuses the talents of hundreds of researchers, teachers and students working on Europe on a single site. Its purpose is to create synergies, promote interdisciplinary dialogue, and generate collaborative research projects at home and abroad.
The ANU Centre for European Studies takes over the role formerly played by the National Europe Centre (NEC).
It is funded jointly by ANU and the European Commission.
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Item Open Access Policy Notes(Centre for European Studies. Australian National University., 2015) Australian National University. Centre for European StudiesThe ANU Centre for European Studies Policy Notes series provides updates on research relevant to current policy debates. The Notes showcase the work of the Centre across a range of issues.Item Metadata only Big Ideas from Europe: Magna Carta at 800da Silva, Nicholas Simoes; Williams, KatarzynaItem Metadata only Item Metadata only The Human Rights Act 1998Kaczynska-Nay, ElizaThe aim of this paper is to evaluate briefly the impact of the Human Rights Act (HRA) � sometimes understood as the United Kingdom�s Bill of Rights (Klug 2007) - on the...Item Metadata only Schuman Lecture Series - Schuman�s Vision in the Age of Disarray: Whither Europe and the West?Ritchie, DavidThe Robert Schuman Lecture series celebrates the remarkable achievements of European integration since its modest beginnings in the European Coal and Steel Community in...Item Metadata only Equality and Convergence in Nordic Societies in the Long Run: Europe and Other Comparative MirrorsEloranta, Jari; Ojala, Jari; Pehkonen, Jaakko; Bruno, Lars ChristianItem Metadata only Poland and the New World DisorderBesemeres, JohnANU Centre for European Studies Research Fellow Dr John Besemeres was this year�s guest of honour and speaker at the Polish Constitution Day Commemorative Dinner in...Item Metadata only Russia: what�s next?Rigby, RichardANUCES Roundtable Summary On 23 June 2015 the Australian National University�s Centre for European Studies hosted a public roundtable to discuss current developments in...Item Metadata only Is the Australian Offshore Processing System a Model for Europe?Ioli, CamillaThis Briefing Paper was written by Camilla Ioli, who was a Visiting Fellow at ANUCES in 2017, exploring comparison response of the European Union and Australia to the...Item Metadata only ANUCES/ABC�s Big Ideas � Exploring BrexitThis briefing paper is one in a series of papers on European ideas and issues. The series builds on panel discussions broadcast on ABC Radio National�s Big Ideas program...Item Metadata only European Trade Treaties: Key Intellectual Property DemandsMoir, Hazel V.J.Modern �trade� treaties are much more than that. They now cover a wide range of market interventions and regulations, some of which have little, if any, relationship to trade or investment. The five post-2006 Global Europe treaties are no exception. They go beyond WTO issues, venturing into fields such as labour standards and the environment.Item Metadata only The Italian Patient in 2016: Weak but not poorDieter, HeribertItaly has been struggling with weak economic performance for the better part of a decade. Since 2007, the economy has not returned to a path of robust growth. The Italian economy is suffering from a triple-dip recession, and a solution seems far away. Despite this lasting stagnation, there have been only limited economic reforms. For some outside observers, Italian society seems to be longing for a return to the 1970s, the days of television personality Ugo Fantozzi: a cosy life without major turbulence. But to expect that Italy, or the European Union, will be able to return to the sheltered life of the past is wishful thinking. Italy is facing a choice: it will either embrace globalisation � with all its disadvantages, job losses in uncompetitive industries for instance � or it will have to opt for a more sheltered, but probably poorer path of economic development. If Italian society chooses the former, it will require a radical overhaul of the Italian economy.Item Metadata only Religious freedom and the principles of subsidiarity and margin of appreciation: the jurisdictional responsibilities and interrelationships of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.Thynne, RaphaelaThe European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union have distinct as well as inter-related jurisdictions. This important feature of the courts is addressed in this paper with reference to cases involving judgments on religious freedom within the bounds of the principles of subsidiarity and margin of appreciation. The courts have been guided by these principles, as well as contributing to their development, in considering matters of religious freedom under EU laws and conventions. The judgments indicate the extent to which in addressing these matters the jurisdictions of the courts and their underlying responsibilities have evolved in ways that suggest convergence, but with issues remaining concerning a commitment to fully engaging in the human rights sphere, particularly but not exclusively in relation to matters of religious freedom.Item Metadata only Preparatory Approaches to Overcoming Regulatory NTBs in an EU-Australia FTAWillcocks, Andrew Charles; McNaughton, AnneThe issue of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) has arisen predominantly in the context of multilateral trade negotiations. Such barriers have often been revealed only after the implementation of liberalising trade obligations. As a result, they have traditionally been dealt with using approaches that rely largely on the benefit of hindsight. Such approaches involve assessment, surveillance and dispute resolution procedures. In recent times, however, the multilateral trade negotiation process-the Doha Round-has stalled. In response to this, many states and trading blocs have been negotiating bilateral and regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) (or preferential trade agreements, PTAs). This development has given rise to opportunities to anticipate NTBs by virtue of the greater level of domestic regulatory control resulting from the domestic enactment of trade treaties reciprocally incorporated into domestic law. The more frequently states negotiate similar treaty provisions, the greater the likelihood that they will be able to identify areas in which NTBs may arise, and the greater the prospect that they may be able to establish cooperative processes between domestic regulatory agencies in order to handle and possibly even remove these NTBs. There is now greater potential than in the past for introducing procedures for dealing with NTBs during the treaty negotiation phase rather than including processes in the treaty itself for handling them, on an ad hoc basis, if and when they emerge. This paper describes this development as a notional shift away from reactive procedures towards proactive ones. Australia and the EU intend to negotiate an FTA in the next few years. This paper argues that the approach to handling and possibly eradicating NTBs in such an agreement need not adopt a traditional reactive approach. Rather, it could take a more proactive approach, moving to anticipatory settings to better remove and prevent NTBs. An EU-Australia FTA may be a prime opportunity for such a shift to occur in Australia's approach to resolving NTBs in FTAs.Item Metadata only Australia � European Union Cooperative Security in a new strategic environmentRecent developments in violent extremism and cyber security breaches demonstrate that cross border security issues impact not only on the nation but on regional and...Item Metadata only Sino Russian relations under Putin and Xi JinpingWilson, Kyle; Fortescue, Stephen; Fabrizi, RebeccaOn 19 November 2014 the Australian National University�s Centre for European Studies hosted a seminar for an invited audience of public servants and academics on the...Item Metadata only The European Union and Infectious Diseases: Explanations for Policy and Legal Reformda Silva, Nicholas SimoesOver the past two decades, infectious disease control and prevention increasingly have become a part of the European Union�s competences and it has developed numerous policies and institutions in the field. This �Europeanization� of infectious diseases, whilst implicitly accepted in much of the scholarship, has been historically largely unexplored and under-explained.1 This paper seeks to contribute to the growing body of research into the explanations for European integration and policymaking in the sphere of infectious diseases. The paper utilises punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) to explain what drives EU action and integration in communicable diseases. PET is a useful theory in this area because it offers an explanation not only of why policy and legal change occurs when it does, but also why it occurs at particular levels of government, a key issue in the EU and its relationship with member states. The paper also draws on securitisation and spillover theories as complementary theories that, in the EU context, lead to a stronger use of PET. The paper seeks to achieve three aims. First, to explore what drives the EU�s policymaking in the field of infectious disease control. Second, to examine why the EU, as well as member states, became an institutional locus for law and policy reform in this area. Lastly, to explore the implications of the findings for predicting future developments in this field and for the application of PET to the EU. Section 1 of the paper explains PET and the selection of case studies. The paper then applies PET to two case studies to explain the evolving role of the EU in infectious disease control and prevention. Section 2 examines the 2003�04 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Section 3 looks at the 2014�16 Ebola outbreak. Section 4 assesses the usefulness of PET in predicting the EU�s future role in infectious disease policy, and provides a brief summary of suggested changes that PET should incorporate in the context of the EU.Item Open Access Bank tax in Hungary(ANU Centre for European Studies (ANUCES), The Australian National University) Osvat, Krisztina; Osvat, SzabolcsBank tax in Hungary. Quick analysis on a debated pioneering step. The idea is not popular Down UnderItem Open Access European Human Rights 1919-1950: From Negative to Positive Example? The Prioritisation of 'First Generation' Rights?(ANU Centre for European Studies (ANUCES), The Australian National University) Kent, BruceThe United Nations General Assembly’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights (1950) were contrasting responses to the ‘paradigm shift’ in social and political attitudes induced by the dysfunctional behaviour of the western world’s economic and financial systems, and the attendant social trauma, political extremism, war-mongering and racism of the preceding twenty years. At the core of this attitudinal shift were demands for counter-cyclical state spending to obviate the chronic unemployment of the 1930s; for a ‘welfare state’ in which there would be universal access to health services, education and social security; and for a ‘free society’ in which civil and political liberties would be guaranteed. These demands were crystallised between 1939 and 1945 (1) by the manner in which unemployment was mopped up in Germany by Hitler’s rearmament programme and subsequently in Britain and the United States by government war-time expenditure; (2) by the widespread feelings of ‘entitlement’ engendered by a conflict which cost 100 million lives and inflicted unparalleled hardship and physical devastation on civilians; and (3) by the radical social agendas proclaimed by the Atlantic Charter and Chapter IX of the United 2 Nations Charter (‘International and Social Co-operation’). After elaborating on the historical context which explains the unprecedented emphasis of the 1948 Universal Declaration on social and economic rights, this paper goes on to discuss why the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, which established the European Court of Human Rights as a bastion of civil and political rights, completely ignored social and economic rights.Item Open Access What Soul for Europe? Unity, Diversity & Identity in the EU(ANU Centre for European Studies (ANUCES), The Australian National University) Jimenez, PabloPolitical integration has been part of the European project from its very beginnings. As far back as the early seventies there was concern in Brussels that an ingredient.