... , and is concerned with the longer term policy agenda. The European Parliament act as the second chamber in the legislative process and the European Court of Justice acts as the European Judicial authority. Conceptually, the institutional configuration of the EU has the potential to provide the framework for democracy; the citizens of EU democratically elect national governments who in turn represent the citizens in the Council, while Members of The European Parliament are elected democratically ... and their remote, elite-driven and unaccountable nature, which proves to be at the heart ...

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... that those workers who mixed the dusty product against the instructions of the labelling had a bit more respiratory symptoms than the other ones. For a risk communicators point of view, that was the best possible outcome. The original cause of outrage was probably the unfamiliarity of pesticides. It did help though, that the contractors had to pay for the pesticides by themselves, and the forest companies on whose demand the pesticide was used, did ... more important than a small risk caused by dioxin intake. In other words, a risk comparison between coronary heart disease and cancer fr...

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... is uncertainty over what position new member states such as the Czech Republic may take, in turn leading to internal divisions thus weakening the political cohesion of the EU. Another loss for the EU may come in the form of immigration. The European Union has long held the principle "freedom of movement" close to its heart. However, in April 2001 the EC recommended that full freedom of labor and population ... should be delayed for up to seven years. The question is why? When German Chancellor Schroeder ... ...

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