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Results of the 2019 European Parliament Elections: The Rise of Far-right Populism and Liberal Centrism (2019년 유럽의회선거의 함의: 극우 포퓰리즘과 중도자유주의의 부상)

  • OH, Chang Rhyong
    • Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.5-33
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to explore the implications of the 2019 European Parliament elections. Existing studies show that European elections serve as secondary elections dominated by domestic issues. However, the 2019 European elections have highlighted pan-European issues such as the Brexit negotiations and the rise of far-right populism, with voter turnout also rising sharply to 50.62%, which is the highest record since the 2000s. There was also a significant change in the number of parliamentary seats held by each political group. First, the European People's Party(EPP) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats(S&D), which had hitherto led the European Parliament, failed to achieve a majority. Second, the number of seats won by Renew Europe, a new liberal-centrist group, was considerably high. Third, the far-right groups organized a full-fledged political force by rallying around the Identity and Democracy(ID) group. The rise of liberal-centrism can be explained as a reaction to the popularity of anti-European populism. Renew Europe's emphasis on open-market competition has created a different issue, especially since the center-left and center-right groups have stressed on the need for state intervention in employment, welfare, security and immigration control. Along with far-right populism, liberal centrism has also reshuffled Europe's political cleavage, and the conflict between 'liberalism' and 'protectionism' has become more evident in the European Parliament.

Analysis of the 2019 European Parliament Election Results Based on the Far-Right Party Family Classification (극우 동종정당(Far-Right Party Family) 분류에 기반한 2019년 유럽의회 선거 결과 분석)

  • Yoon, Seock-Jun
    • Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.35-67
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to analyze and evaluate the outcomes of the far-right parties in the 2019 European Parliament (hereinafter EP) elections. To this end, this study refrains from the conventional method of analyzing the number of seats of the political group(s) classified as far-right in the EP. Instead, the study takes a method based on the party family classification by summing up the number of the EP members who have been elected to the far-right party within individual member states. There are two reasons for the analysis of EP election results based on this far-right party family. Firstly, some of the far-right members of the EP do not join the political group(s) classified as far-right, and secondly, some of the political group(s) classified as far-right tends to be inhomogeneous. In this vein, this study attempts to analyze the outcomes of the far-right party in the 2019 EP elections based on the classification of the far-right party family. As a result, this study shows that the assessment of the European major press based on the number of seats of the political group(s) classified as far-right in the EP was inconsistent with the actual political landscape. According to the analysis of election results based on the classification of the far-right party family, the number of seats secured by the far-right parties in the 2019 EP elections corresponded to or significantly exceeded the results of previous polls. In addition, this is a significant increase in the seats of the far-right parties compared to the 2014 EP elections, and it is reasonable to affirm that the far-right parties have made great strides in the 2019 EP elections.

A study on the system and the law related with a electronic trade in german (독일의 전자무역 시스템 여건 및 전자무역 관련 법규에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon O
    • The Journal of Information Technology
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.11-32
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    • 2003
  • For the internet is spreading out, a trade method and a trade process are chaning. Especially, with the development of an internet, a international trade can be madevia internet and other trade related with businesses can be achived electronically. The electronic trade is expected to dominate the gloval trade. Therefore, a trader needs to study this new method of trade intransaction with German. This paper focuses on the electronic transaction system in German. They participate in the foreign trade which is based on The AuBenwirtschaftsgesetz(AWG) and AuBenwirtschaftsve- rordnung(AWV). Customs are managed by the processing of two methods, The one is a export custom processing, the other is a outward custom processing. This paper also focuses on the law for a electronic trade in German. There are a varity of Law related with a electronic trade in German. For example, there are Das Information und Kommunikationsdienste Gesetz, Teledienstegesetz, Entwurf eines Gesetzes zum Schutz von Zuganskontrolldienste, Teledienstedatenschutzgesetz, Signaturgesetz, Das Strafgessetzbuch, Das Gesetz ber Ordnungswidrigkeit, Das Gesetz ber die Verbreightung jugendgef hrdender Schrifen und Medieninhalt, Entwurf eines Gesetes zur Anpassung der Formvorschrifen des Privatrechts und anderer Vorschrifen aqn den modernnen Rechtsgesch ftsverkehr, Gesetzes zur Modernisieerung des Schuldrechts. Entwurf eines Gesetes zur Anpassung der Formvorschrifen des Privatrechts und anderer Vorschrifen aqn den modernnen Rechtsgesch ftsverkehr, Gesetz ber Urheberrecht und verwandte Schutzrechte, Directive 2000/31/EC of The European Parliament and of The Council, Directive 2002/58/EC of The European Parliament and of The Council, Directive 2002/65/EC of The European Parliament and of The Council etc.

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EC's Recent Developments of Legal Regime in Governing Law for Marine Insurance Contracts (유럽연합 법제상 해상보험계약의 준거법에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Ju-Young;Park, Won-Hyung
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.63-74
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    • 2012
  • The Korean Conflict of Laws Act recently incorporated much of the European Union's recent revision in "EC Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (Rome 1980)"(hereinafter Rome Convention). With the revision of Rome Convention applied to contractual obligations,"Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I)"(hereinafter Rome I) has taken effect on December 2009. Before the effectivation of Rome I, "Regulation (EC) No 864/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II)"(hereinafter Rome II) has come into effect on January 2009. This means the revision of certain rules and its practical implications need an in-depth study on governing law rules under Rome I which provides newly effected governing laws applicable to contractual obligations. Moreover, uniform choice of law rules on non-contractual obligations needs to focus especially on marine insurance contract. Where policy assignment and subrogation causes, how to decide the governing law which will be applied to the insurer as a third party? This article attempts to analyze emerging legal issues in legal regimes determining choice of law, especially those in international marine insurance contracts. This will help Korean practitioners to be dialed in legal affairs under English Law as the governing law in their contracts.

Europass and the CEFR: Implications for Language Teaching in Korea

  • Finch, Andrew Edward
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.71-92
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    • 2009
  • Europass was established in 2005 by the European Parliament and the Council of Europe as a single framework for language qualifications and competences, helping citizens to gain accreditation throughout the European Community. In addition, the 1996 Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) provides a common basis for language syllabi, curriculum guidelines, examination, and textbooks in Europe. This framework describes the required knowledge and skills, the cultural context, and the levels of proficiency that learners should achieve. In combination, Europass and the CEFR provide employers and educational institutes with internationally recognized standards. This paper proposes that current trends such as globalization and international mobility require a similar approach to accreditation in Asia. As jobs and workers become independent of national boundaries and restrictions, it becomes necessary to educate students as multilingual world citizens, using standards that are accepted around the world. It is suggested, therefore, that assessment models such as Europass and the CEFR, along with successful language teaching models in Europe and Canada, present opportunities of adaptation for the Korean education system. Finally, rigorous teacher training to internationally recognized levels is recommended, if Korea is to produce a workforce of highly-skilled, plurilingual world citizens.

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Struggling for a New European Order: Salvaged or Newly Shaped

  • Sungwook Yoon
    • Analyses & Alternatives
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.5-31
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    • 2024
  • The US-led and European partners supporting liberal international order has dwindled. A number of research has been conducted to explore reasons, starting point, the possibility of resurrection, and even the future scenarios of the international order. This is particularly important for the EU, in that the EU was built for a world that is peaceful, multilateral and driven by compromise inseparable from the liberal international order. The current situation of the crisis in the international order is also important to emerging powers notably China and Russia which seek for a new order best suitable for their own interests. In this sense, this paper explains the significance of the liberal international order to the EU, the necessity of salvaging an order or creating a new order, and important variables - elections held in 2024 across the EU, in the European Parliament, and the US, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, trans-atlantic partnership and EU-China relations - which possibly affect the EU to establish a new European order. In fact, the EU is unlikely to take the lead in forming a new international order. Nonetheless, the first task the EU should do is to acknowledge the crisis situation at present and to make a decision of the EU's position and role regarding saved, reformed or newly shaped order.

A study on the Reliability Assurance of the Electronic Equipment made with Lead-Free Solder - in the restriction of the use of hazardous substances - (유해물질 사용제한에 따라 무연솔더링 공정으로 생산된 전자제품의 신뢰성확보 방안)

  • Song Byeong-Suk;Cho Jai-Rip
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.298-301
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    • 2004
  • European Union Member States shall ensure that, from 1 July 2006, new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market does not contain mercury, cadmium, lead, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls(PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers(PBDE) (by Directive 2002/95/EC of The European Parliament and the Council of 27 january, 2003 on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment ). So, It is important to develop lead free solder and to assure the reliability of appliance. But lead free solder(i.e. Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu) have some problems such as lift off, whisker, migration and crack, etc. In this paper we discuss the reliability assurance method in lead free solder and appliance.

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Relocation of German Capital to Berlin and its Geographical Implications (독일의 수도이전 : 베를린 천도과정과 그 함의)

  • Ahn, Young-Jin;Park, Young-Han
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.33-47
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    • 2001
  • This paper is to examine the decision-making process and various institutional engagements for the relocation of the German capital to Berlin and to identify its geographical implications. Germany had faced many difficult problems in the way of the national reunification, but achieved it peacefully. Just after the unification, the new location of the capital(Bundeshauptstadt) for the united Germany between the authentic capital 'Berlin' and the real democratic capital 'Bonn' was intensely discussed in the parliament as well as in public. Finally Berlin was chosen for the new location by the decision of the parliament and during the ten years after the decision, the German government tried to prepare all the requirements for the capital relocation. The physical relocation of the capital came to an end with the move of both the parliament and the administration to Berlin in september of 1999. However, its political, economic, and socio-psychological impacts still remain strong and are likely to continue. This relocation could symbolize the national identity building through the real integration between East Berlin and West Berlin as well as between East Germany and West Germany. It is, furthermore, closely related to the geo-political and geo-economic roles of Germany in a new European constellation in the post-Cold War era.

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EU Structural Funds for the Period of 2007-2013 (EU의 구조기금(Structural Funds): 2007년-2013년)

  • Byun, Pill-Sung
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.81-91
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    • 2007
  • The European Union(EU) has implemented the Structural Funds since 1994, in order to achieve its harmonious development though the strengthening of economic and social cohesion in the EU territory, and particularly to tackle regional disparities and to support backward regions in the territory. In the July of 2006, the Council of EU has flatly laid down the provisions of the Structural Funds which is applied to the period of 2007-2013, having regard to the proposal from the European Commission and the assent of the European Parliament. Given this context, this work deals with the features of the Structural Funds(2007-2013), focusing on the funds' objectives, the regions and countries under the application of such objectives, allocation of the funds among the EU Member States, and the funds' financial resources.

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