The financial crisis and the restructuring of the EU social model

Author(s): Mahmood Messkoub / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Author examines the particular effects of the financial crisis on the systems of social welfare within Europe. He identifies clear signs of a recommodification of welfare and the erosion of 'long cherished principles of reducing inequality, building and consolidating solidarity through a progressive social policy'. He highlights the particular threat to the 'solidarity model of asymmetrical mutuality' represented by destructive processes of austerity and the limited and contradictory ambitions of the Europe 2020 programme.

Crises and capitalist oligarchies: a radical critique of society and its political economy

Author(s): Judith Dellheim / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Author's examination of 'crises and capitalist oligarchies' focuses on the socio-economic power exerted by economic elites in advanced economies and the particular role of contemporary oligarchies in shaping the mode of production of financialised capitalism. The author underscores the malign effect of intertwined ownership structures (including the role of credit rating agencies) on human and environmental development and proposes a radical reordering of social and economic priorities.

EU governance: democracy as a mere fragment of political discourse

Author(s): Giovanni Esposito,Tomaso Ferrando / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The chapter illustrates the particular problems of the mismatch of rhetorical pledges by the EU to address the region's democratic deficit and the reality of inertia in the region's democratisation; they achieve this via a quantitative analysis of real policy processes involving national parliaments and their engagement with EU directives.

The need for a radical 'growth policy' agenda for Europe at a time of crisis

Author(s): Peter Herrmann,Marica Frangakis / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Authors focus on the urgent need for a radical growth policy agenda within the EU and its member states. They develop a concept of growth which is distinct from 'capitalist growth' and from the simple expansion of the output of exchange values; they thereby seek to address the issues of ecological and economic sustainability as well as the development of global human society under the conditions of solidarity and justice.

The future of capitalism will be decided in the cities

Author(s): Mikael Stigendal / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Author considers the problematic of growth in a study of the potential for local solutions (in cities in particular) for overcoming the contradictions of financialised capitalism and the dominance of exchange value. This would include, apart from new methods of measuring 'growth', recognizing an strengthening needs-driven growth and production outside the market with particular reference to the relationship between 'growth' and welfare. Author sees the particular potential for reshaping the EU's Structural Funds and more specific funds like URBAN and URBACT for promoting locally legitimated innovative projects which prioritise use values.

The preconditions for reducing social inequality in Europe

Author(s): Jeremy Leaman / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Author, building on the contributions of Messkoub and others, assesses the particular challenges of reversing the trend within European societies towards greater inequalities of income and wealth. Beyond the intellectual challenge of weakening the grip of disciplinary neoliberalism on both policy elites and many elements of European political culture, the trust of a progressive social agenda has to address the widening disparities of 'market incomes' as an issue of public policy, as well as the fiscal implications of a system of asymmetrical mutuality (Messkoub). Recent taxation policy has tolerated divergence among member state tax systems, encouraging both inter-state tax competition and weakening the fiscal potential for neutralising chronic social disparities. Reversing this trend and establishing sustainable and progressive systems of public goods and public finance is a critical precondition for the survival of the European project.

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Podstawy prawne funkcjonowania elektronicznego zarządzania dokumentacją w instytucjach naukowych i kulturalnych

Author(s): Marek Konstankiewicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Archiwum szkoły wyższej w procesie wdrażania elektronicznego zarządzania dokumentacją

Author(s): Anna Łosowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Praktyka gromadzenia i opracowywania dokumentacji elektronicznej w instytucjach Polskiej Akademii Nauk pozostających pod nadzorem Polskiej Akademii Nauk Archiwum w Warszawie na przykładzie Oddziału w Katowicach

Author(s): Mateusz Sobeczko / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

W stronę e‑administracji Z doświadczeń wdrożenia elektronicznego zarządzania dokumentacją w Archiwum Państwowym w Lublinie

Author(s): Krzysztof Kołodziejczyk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Wdrożenie EZD w urzędach województwa śląskiego

Author(s): Barbara Kurdyk,Beata Wanic / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Wdrażanie systemu elektronicznego obiegu dokumentacji w Urzędzie Miasta Krakowa Wybrane problemy

Author(s): Dorota Drzewiecka,Tomasz Karaś / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Postępowanie ze spisami zdawczo‑odbiorczymi w postaci elektronicznej, nowa forma ewidencji Archiwum Urzędu Miasta Krakowa

Author(s): Tomasz Karaś / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Rola zagranicznych archiwów narodowych w procesie projektowania i wdrażania systemów do elektronicznego zarządzania dokumentacją

Author(s): Katarzyna Pepłowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Elektroniczne zarządzanie dokumentacją jako wyzwanie dydaktyczne

Author(s): Alicja Kulecka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

System EZD RP w polityce rządowej

Author(s): Katarzyna Pepłowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

When pragmatism wins: Slovakia in the Visegrad Group

Author(s): Tomáš Strážay / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

On July 1, 2019, Slovakia assumed its fifth presidency of the Visegrad Group. Independent observers might have noticed that Slovakia has chosen a different approach to the V4 from Hungary in its V4 presidency in 2017/2018. While the Hungarian presidency had an extraordinarily high number of activities and glamourous events – including fireworks in Budapest on the anniversary of the Visegrad Group – Slovakia’s take has been more modest. This is far from being the only difference in the approaches of the two countries towards Visegrad cooperation. This chapter therefore begins by pointing out the different views of Visegrad cooperation in the four V4 capitals. It then assesses the previous Hungarian and Slovak V4 presidencies from a comparative perspective, while pointing out the most important priorities of each. Subsequently, it summarizes the reasons why Visegrad cooperation remains important to Slovakia. Finally, in the concluding part it outlines some ideas on the future development of the V4.

Western Balkans – a lost year or a useful year?

Author(s): Július Lőrincz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Western Balkans have traditionally been a focal point of Slovak foreign policy interests and activities. They represent a chapter in the strategies and goals of external relations that have been shaped within a specific historical context, and through social, cultural and economic contact with the nations living in the neighborhood of Central and Southeastern Europe, and with whom we often share similar destinies. Today that context is mainly about building a secure, peaceful, prosperous and integrated Europe as part of the Euro-Atlantic structures. Slovakia and the Western Balkans occupy different places and play different roles in this process, but they are connected by their common desire to belong to the modernizing plank of society, overcoming the legacy of the recent past, and its sometimes dramatic and even tragic consequences, especially in the military conflicts of the 1990s when Yugoslavia collapsed. It is understandable, therefore, that compared to the leaders of other countries, especially in Western Europe, Slovakia’s political leaders are more sensitive to events connected with the EU integration efforts of the Western Balkan countries and to the obstacles stemming from Balkan and/or wider European policy.