Search for dissertations about: "EU culture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words EU culture.

  2. 1. Europeisk identitetspolitik : EU:s demokratibistånd till Polen och Turkiet : [EU democratic aid to Poland and Turkey]

    Author : Åsa Lundgren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; democracy promotion; political aid; identity; culture; foreign policy; the Europeanunion; Turkey; Poland; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; statskunskap; statskunskap;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the motives behind EU support for Poland's and Turkey's democratic development. Since the end of the Cold War, like many Western governments and international organisations, the EU has made the promotion of democracy one of its main foreign policy ambitions. READ MORE

  4. 2. A castle in the air : The complexity of the multilingual interpretation of european community law

    Author : Mattias Derlén; Pär Hallström; Barbara Pozzo; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; multilingual interpretation; EU law; EU law in Danish courts; EU law in English courts; EU law in German courts; legal culture; preliminary rulings; European Court of Justice; LAW JURISPRUDENCE; RÄTTSVETENSKAP JURIDIK;

    Abstract : It is well known that European Union law is multilingual. Union legislation is not only published in all authentic languages but equally authoritative in each language. The European Court of Justice has discussed – and indeed made use of – this multilingual character when interpreting Community law. READ MORE

  5. 3. Eurocrats at Work : Negotiating Transparency in Postnational Employment Policy

    Author : Renita Thedvall; Christina Garsten; Ullrich Kockel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; EU; transparency; accountability; postnational; Social Europe; European Employment Policy; calculability; EU indicators; Research on Europe; Forskning om Europa;

    Abstract : In the European Union political visions of a ‘Social Europe’ are being fuelled by the creation of common EU employment and social policy. The aim of the study is to investigate the workings and dynamics of policy-making in the area of employment, as an integral part of the fashioning of the European Union. READ MORE

  6. 4. The construction of food and meal culture for political and commercial ends : EU-summits, rural businesses and World Exhibitions

    Author : Richard Tellström; Inga-Britt Gustafsson; Birgitta Svensson; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : authenticity; commercial; cultural form; cultural value; food and meal culture; origin; political; professional; Culinary Arts and Meal Science; Måltidskunskap; Måltidskunskap; Culinary Arts and Meal Science;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how cultural values of food and meal culture were expressed and used by professional agents. The overall aim was to analyse and synthesise the interpretation and creation by professionals in commercial food and meal production of what they defined as a local, regional or national food and meal culture. READ MORE

  7. 5. Europeans only? : essays on identity politics and the European Union

    Author : Peo Hansen; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; European identity; European Union; European Commission; identity politics; discourse; discourse analysis; immigration; immigrants; ethnic minorities; culture; ethno-culturalism; citizenship; European citizenship; education; exclusion inclusion; neo-liberalism; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The chief preoccupation of the dissertation revolves around the European Union's project of calling forth a collective sense of "European identity" amongst people in the Union. It focuses specifically on how the European Union's identity politics plays out once the ethnic minorities with immigrant background now living in the Union are brought into view. READ MORE