European Economic Community

Kingdom has throughout its tenure in the European Economic Community and European Union maintained certain level of autonomy from Continental Europe. For example, the United Kingdom has chosen to opt out of both the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the Schengen Area. Nonetheless, the most notable British exemption from the rest of European Union is its absence from the Eurozone. Of the EU nation’s currently not in the Eurozone only Denmark and the United Kingdom have the liberty to deny joining the Eurozone. The other nations in the EU without the Euro are not a part of the Eurozone because they do not meet the criteria for entry at the present time. British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher stood vehemently…

In the British constitution the principle of parliamentary sovereignty is placed at the highest pedestal. The legislature has the power to make, amend or repeal laws. No other person or organisation has the power to change the legislation that is implements. Additionally, the parliament can look into any issue unrestrained, within its jurisdiction. When it comes to parliament applying its authority, there are no sacred cows. In order to regulate fishing by European Union member states, The…

statute comes out on top. Therefore, these 3 principles prove that Royal Prerogatives have no effect on parliamentary supremacy at all, as parliament would just need to create another statute in order to force the royal prerogative into abeyance. On the other hand, EU law is much more complicated when it is conflict with Parliamentary supremacy. The United Kingdom was late in joining and joined the European Economic community in 1972 (EEC), in which this was a voluntary joining. Within the EEC…

The European Community was established after WWII in 1957, buy the agreements of the Treaty of Rome. The Treaty of Rome focused on economic co-operations with European countries, but also set out a wider political vision of a closer union and eliminates the barriers that divided Europe. During the signing of the treaty, France Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany, the Netherlands and Italy became the first members of the Union. It was the result of eleven years of attempt to reconstruct the…

furthered the divide between Europe causing a terrible economic situation for all countries. After the Cold War ended, Europe began to discuss a policy that would unite all of Europe on an economic and cultural basis to increase productivity and an overall better life for their citizens. While in the beginning the motions for European unity were met with little challenge, as time progressed more and more countries and people began to challenge and doubt the effectiveness of European unity. In…

Furat Fakhreddin Academic Skills Assignment 1 Brexit is the abbreviation of Britain and Exit and it refers to a referendum vote that took place on the 23rd of March 2016 where the public voted that the United Kingdom was to exit the European Union. The leave vote won with 51.9% of the vote . This was first initiated by the UK Independence party. They pushed for the UK to leave the EU and in recent years gained the support of conservative party’s MP’s. They argue that being an EU member…

The United Kingdom grants an interesting case study for wage equality development because of the extensive history of legislation present in the nation. Even though the United Kingdom is currently undergoing major changes with Brexit, much of the nation’s policies are still rooted deeply within the European Union’s policy. In 1957, the Treaty of Rome created the basis for gender equality in the United Kingdom. According to Article 119, all member states must legally provide equal pay for work…

Week 5: The Imagined Community: Nationalism: • The concept of nationalism can be defined as a common identity formed between people (Okoth, 2006: 1). • Nationalism was previously viewed as an unpredictable and dangerous force (Chaterjee, 1993: 3). • Nationalism is a product of the political history of Europe (Chaterjee, 1993: 4). • CLASS QUESTION: Do you think that the Western countries had a reason to fear the phenomenon of nationalism? Imagined Community: • A nation is a socially…

necessary to compare the similarities and the differences between the two choose European states. The states that will be discussed are Britain and Germany. It is also essential to look at the causes and the root of the Great Depression. It is important to know the state of the countries before the Great Depression in order to learn why they seemed to experience such a detrimental effect. Finally, this essay will look at the lasting effects of the Great Depression on the two chosen states. The…

Unit 5 Written Assignment 1. There is much criticism that modernization theory is Eurocentric. Introduction. “Modernization theory proposes that there are natural stages of economic development that all societies go through from undeveloped to advanced,” (Little & McGivern, 2013, p.560). One of the criticism of the modernization theory is that, “ widely varying degrees of development observed globally have less to do with natural stages of development and more to do with relations of economic…