Andrea Daniel Livres

The thesis argues that the European Community functions as a self-standing federal state lacking sufficient political power due to member states retaining key competencies in Foreign, Defence, and Monetary Policy. It identifies the Community's structural elements akin to established federations like Germany and Canada, highlighting its potential to fulfill federal responsibilities. Despite improvements in democratic participation and the expansion of the European Parliament's powers, essential areas remain under national control. The work advocates for transferring these competencies to enhance the Community's international bargaining power and economic effectiveness.

Focusing on the Services Directive, the essay examines how EU economic legislation influences broader policy and decision-making processes, acting as a catalyst for political integration. It highlights the interplay between economic policies and other areas, such as social and labor market issues, revealing how economic integration can reshape the distribution of power among EU institutions. Additionally, it discusses the challenges posed by varying political interests of Member States and interest groups, illustrating the complexities of the multi-layered decision-making process in EU legislation.

Focusing on the EU Lisbon Strategy, this essay explores its role in promoting socially and ecologically sustainable development while highlighting its influence on various policy agendas, particularly the EU Cohesion Policy and Structural Funds. It critically examines the challenges faced in implementing the EU's policy objectives, including budget constraints and the division of responsibilities between EU and national authorities. Additionally, the essay includes a brief discussion on the EU's funding policies, such as the Research Framework Programmes.

Focusing on the subsidiarity principle within the European Community's legal framework, this essay explores how EC laws interact with national laws, emphasizing their supremacy while allowing national legislation where the EC lacks authority. It draws parallels to the German federal system and examines the balance of power through legal mechanisms such as limited empowerment and competence distinctions. The essay illustrates these concepts with case studies on tobacco advertisement bans and related German legal challenges, highlighting both theoretical and practical aspects of the EC's legislative system.

In the past decades, the notion of differentiated subsidiary roles within multinational network corporations has inspired a considerable amount of research. Surprisingly, the question of whether headquarters and subsidiary managers perceive a certain subsidiary’s role in the same way has been neglected. Andrea Daniel not only compares headquarters and subsidiary managers’ perceptions of a subsidiary’s role, but she analyzes the implications of perception gaps for the headquarters-subsidiary relationship. The author develops a novel conceptual framework that allows to examine headquarters-subsidiary relationships and, in particular, the subsidiary role concept. This framework proposes headquarters-subsidiary conflict as the main implication of perception gaps.

Der Essay analysiert die aktiven Arbeitsmarktmaßnahmen des Vereinigten Königreichs und Deutschlands sowie die Reformen der Arbeitsdienste seit der Einführung der Europäischen Beschäftigungsstrategie. Der Autor vergleicht die politischen Systeme und deren Ansätze zur Bekämpfung von Arbeitslosigkeit, wobei er die Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten in den Strategien beider Länder herausstellt. Durch diese vergleichende Analyse wird ein tieferes Verständnis für die Effizienz und die Herausforderungen der jeweiligen Arbeitsmarktpolitik gewonnen.