... on international treaties and standards that have been accepted by the international community. It has a dual function: "to settle in accordance with international law the legal disputes submitted to it by States, and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized international organs and ... order by interpreting laws and establishing "judicial safeguards- whenever a new challenge is brought to the European Union. "Its judges must ensure that Community law is not interpreted and applied differently in each Member State, that as a shared legal system it rem...

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... impeachment of the then-President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. This was immediately followed by a series of changes in quick succession in Ukraine's sociopolitical system, including the formation of a new interim government, the restoration of the previous constitution, and the call to hold impromptu presidential elections within months. After a first revolution, known as the Orange Revolution in 2004, Ukraine had been ... the urging of Russia. Thereafter, Yanukovych signed a treaty and multi-billion dollar loan with Russia instead, which sparked civil unrest in Kiev that ult...

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... reference to the negative implications of the word "deficit", and how our understanding of this term effects whether a deficit exists at all. Democracy, as a dictionary definition, "is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system." An alternative definition ... is offered by Abraham Lincoln who describes a democratic government as a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." From a comparative politics perspective, with the EU regarded as a political...

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