"It is no longer a time for vain words, but for a bold, constructive act. France has acted, and the consequences of her action may be immense. We hope they will. She has acted essentially in the cause of peace. For peace to have a chance, there must first be a Europe. Nearly five years to the day after the unconditional surrender of Germany, ... France is now taking the first decisive step towards the construction of Europe and is associating Germany in this venture. It is something, which must completely change things in Europe and permit other joint actions, which were hitherto impossible. ...

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... desires. It is therefore fair to say that using the initial definition of terms, there is currently a democratic deficit in the EU. However, the word deficit implies a lack, and therefore something undesirable. If, as some argue, we feel that the amount of impact the citizens of the EU have over decisions made at an EU level is not lacking, as an ... ...

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... involved worries about the coal and steel industries between France and Germany; the European community was concerned that the economic control of these industries could potentially start another armed conflict, something that they all wished to avoid at all costs. In the next few years, further analysis and reports of individual committees such as the Spaak committee suggested further integration of ... ...

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... critical as one considers the above-mentioned integration of the WTO. Farrell sheds light in several occasions on the intergovernmental nature of the WTO. She states that "the WTO remains an intergovernmental organization and is in much respect the instrument of the individual members" . In order to emphasize ... the critical importance of each member's will, she relies on a comparison of the processes of decision-making between the European Council and the General Council of the WTO. But the history of ... DSB and more broadly of the regulatory system of the WTO, especially as compare...

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... ruled that national legislation must guarantee that EU citizens with health insurance who have been authorized to receive hospital treatment abroad receive a level of payment comparable to that which he/she would have received if the individual had received hospital treatment in his own member state. So, if the actual cost of the hospital treatment abroad is less than it would ... ...

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