Európai kormányzás: az EU25 integrációja = European governance: the integration of EU25

A keleti kibővítés kettős kihívást eredményezett, egyrészt az Unió egésze maga is intézményi válságba került az „alkotmányozási” folyamatban, másrészt az új tagállamoknak jelentős intézményi reformokat kellett végrehajtaniuk az Unión belül. Mindkét folyamatban a lényeg a kormányzat-kormányzás kategóriáiban ragadható meg, ami a többszintű kormányzás kiterjesztéséhez vezetett. A mélyítés és bővítés kettős feladatával egyúttal megjelent az Európai Kormányzás kiterjesztése a szomszédokra, mi jelentős részben már a következő évek feladata. A kutatás időtartalma alatt a kutatói állomány változatlan maradt. A kutatás idején tartalmilag nagyobb hangsúly került a magyar uniós elnökség előkészítésére, mivel elindult az első csoportos elnökség és meghatározásra került a magyar uniós elnökség időpontja is. | The Eastern enlargement produced a double challenge, namely the EU itself was in an institutional crisis due to the “constitutionalization” process and the new member states had to perform basic reforms in the EU framework. Both processes can be conceptualized in the government-governance terms that led to the extension of the multilevel governance. With the dual task of deepening and widening the extension of the European Governance also appeared that would be, however, already the task of the next years. The research staff during the project period remained unchanged. During the project the preparation of the Hungarian EU presidency received more emphasis, since the first team presidency began and the timing of the Hungarian team presidency was also decided

Polish business associations: flattened civil society or super lobbies?

This article tests two hypotheses about post-communist business associations. The first predicts weak business associations which are presented with insurmountable collective action problems by the flattened civil society inherited from totalitarianism. According to this hypothesis, no business associations are inherited from the previous regime, and associations are confronted with difficult-to-organize latent groups of large numbers of new small enterprises. The second hypothesis, as proposed by Mancur Olson, predicts strong business associations benefiting from the collective action advantages of the communist economic structure which was composed of small numbers of large enterprises. The hypotheses are tested with case studies of Poland's five most influential business associations. The conclusion is that the flattened civil society hypothesis is best borne out by the evidence. This suggests that, in other countries, political factors, rather than the standard communist economic structure, are more likely to explain the persistence of industrial super lobbies

A magyar régiók versenyképessége az Európai Unióban = Competitiveness of the Hungarian regions in the European Union

A magyar régiók versenyképessége az EU-ban a legutóbbi négy évben fontos és aktuális téma maradt, de tartalmában sokat változott a magyar közigazgatás radikális átszervezése miatt. Ezért a projekt a hazai regionalizáció uniós szabályozásának feltárása után egyre inkább a globalizációval felerősödő nemzetközi dimenzió felé fordult. Ennek megfelelően sorozatban rendeztünk nemzetközi konferenciákat, amelyekben Magyarország és régiói uniós összehasonlításban kerültek vizsgálatra. A négy év alatt négy angol nyelvű kötet született, amelyből háromban egy nemzetközi és hazai szerzőgárda vizsgálta meg az uniós fejlődést és az új tagállamok kohéziós és regionális politikáját. Végül egy negyedik, zárókötet nagyon széles adatbázison és átfogó elemzéssel feltárta az utóbbi évek fejlődését az új tagállamokban. Ez az Előrehaladási Jelentés (Progress Report) az uniós modellt követve próbálja áttekinteni az egész hazai átalakulást az EU28-al és hét másik új tagállammal egybevetve, így előkészíti az új hétéves pénzügyi időszak (2014-2020) elemzését is. | The competitiveness of Hungarian regions in the EU has remained a very important and topical issue in the last four years, although it has changed a lot in its content due to the radical re-organization of the Hungarian public administration.Therefore, after the analysis of the EU regulations of the Hungarian regions, this project has turned increasingly to the stengthening international dimensions during the globalization. We have organized accordingly a series of international conferences, in which Hungary and its regions have been analyzed in a EU comparison. We have published four English edited volumes in four years, in three out of four the Hungarian and international authors have discussed the EU' deveopment and the cohesion-regional policy of the new member states. Finally, the fourth volume as the closing one has dealt with the complex development of the new member states in the latest period on a very large dataset and providing a comprehensive analysis. This ""Progress Report"" has followed the EU model in this respect and it has tried to give an overview of the entire Hungarian development comparing it with the EU28 and with the other seven new member states, preparing in such a way the analysis of the next seven-year financial perspective (2014-2020) as well

Az "európai kormányzás" és a magyar csatlakozás = "European Governance" and the Hungarian Accession

Az "európai kormányzás" és a magyar csatlakozás téma egyrészt az EU tanulmányok tekintetében alapkutatás jellegű, mert az EU alapintézményeinek jellegét érinti, másrészt a magyar csatlakozás gyakorlatias vizsgálatával alkalmazott kutatási dimenziója is van, s harmadrészt a magyar politikatudományi kutatások európaizálását is jelenti, mivel a nemzetközi konferenciák és publikációk révén a projektünk bekapcsolódott az európai kutatási hálózatokba. A kutatás először a soklépcsős belépési folyamatra koncentrált, majd a tagállami működés kialakítására az intézményrendszer vertikális és horizontális európaizálása révén. 2006 végétől azonban egy új téma is belépett, mivel az EU bevezette a csoportos elnökséget és ennek tanulmányozása került előtérbe, hiszen fontossá vált a spanyol-belga-magyar csoportos elnökség (2010-2011) előkészítése. A kutatás ugyanakkor intenzíven foglalkozott az európai közpolitikákkal is. A magyar csatlakozás, majd a felzárkózás szempontjából nagy jelentősége van az EU strukturális és kohéziós politikájának, amelyet a regionalizálás és az EU támogatások felhasználása oldaláról tanulmányoztunk. A magyar elnökség előkészítése során azonban számos más közpolitika is fontossá vált, mint a bel- és igazságügyi együttműködés és a környezetvédelmi politika, illetve az EU együttműködésben az Európai Szomszédsági Politika, amelyeket ugyancsak feldolgoztunk a hazai közpolitikai alkalmazkodás kutatásában. | The topic of European governance and the Hungarian accession is (1) a basic research direction, since it deals with the character of the EU basic institutions; (2) it has an applied science dimension as well, given the practice-oriented study of Hungarian accession; and (2) it brings about the Europeanization of the Hungarian political science because it leads to the integration of the Hungarian research through international conferences and publication into the European research networks. The project concentrated initially on the accession process, then on the elaboration of the member state activity through the vertical and horizontal Europeanization. At the end of 2006 a new issue emerged, since the EU introduced the team presidency and its analysis has come to the fore. The preparation of the Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian presidency (2010-2011) has become of primary importance. The project has also dealt intensively with the EU public policies. In view of Hungarian accession and catch up the EU structural and cohesion policies are decisive that we have studied from the side of the regionalization and utilization of the EU transfers. During the preparation of the Hungarian presidency some other policies have also gained importance as e. g. the cooperation in justice and home affairs or environmental policy, in addition to the European Neighbourhood Policy that have also been elaborated in the project through the analysis of the Hungarian policy accommodation process

Measurement Distortion Analysis of Repetitive and Isolated Track Geometry Irregularities

Track geometry measurements are essential for day-to-day activities of railway maintenance and play an important role in vehicle-track simulations. The generally applied forms of longitudinal level and alignment recordings do not reflect the real shape of the track. Both the versine measurement method and the band-pass filters according to European regulation cause significant amplitude modification and pattern change. In addition, the distortion behavior of repetitive and isolated defects is fundamentally different. In this contribution, simulated measurements of various reference shapes, which represent repetitive and isolated track deformations, were investigated. Comprehensive functions for amplitude change and for other distortion factors were developed with analytical and numerical methods. For chord measurements, rules were found for zero points and distortion-free ranges. Regarding the standardized filters, a significant amplitude reduction of isolated defects was observed in all wavelength ranges. Since derailment and track degradation depend not only on the amplitude of the defect, also the derivatives of the original and filtered forms of reference shapes were investigated and, as a new approach, the defect features called 'hypothetical additional force', 'speed of hypothetical wheel lift-off', 'hypothetical deterioration impulse' and 'hypothetical deterioration energy' were introduced

The Long Road from Neoliberalism to Neopopulism in ECE: The social paradox of neopopulism and decline of the Left

[full article and abstract in English] We live in a “post-neoliberal world”, as it has been discussed in the mainstream literature, but the vital link between neoliberalism and neopopulism has been rarely discussed. Nowadays in international political science it is very fashionable to criticise the long neoliberal period of the last decades, still its effect on the rise of neopopulism has not yet been properly elaborated. To dig deeper into social background of neopopulism, this paper describes the system of neoliberalism in its three major social subsystems, in the socio-economic, legal-political and cultural-civilizational fields. The historical context situates the dominant period of neoliberalism between the 1970s in the Old World Order (OWO) and in the 2010s in the New World Order (NWO). In general, neoliberalism’s cumulative effects of increasing inequality has produced the current global wave of neopopulism that will be analysed in this paper in its ECE regional version. The neopopulist social paradox is that not only the privileged strata, but also the poorest part of ECE’s societies supports the hard populist elites. Due to the general desecuritization in ECE, the poor have become state dependent for social security, yet paradoxically they vote for their oppressors, widening the social base of this competitive authoritarianism. Thus, the twins of neoliberalism and neopopulism, in their close connections—the main topic of this paper—have produced a “cultural backlash” in ECE along with identity politics, which is high on the political agenda.[straipsnis ir santrauka anglų kalba

European Union enlargement, post-accession migration and imaginative geographies of the ‘New Europe’: media discourses in Romania and the United Kingdom.

This paper is concerned with re-imaginings of ‘Europe’ following the accession to the European Union (EU) of former ‘Eastern European’ countries. In particular it explores media representations of post-EU accession migration from Romania to the United Kingdom in the UK and Romanian newspaper press. Todorova’s (1997) notion of Balkanism is deployed as a theoretical construct to facilitate the analysis of these representations as first, the continuation of long-standing and deeply embedded imaginings of the ‘East’ of Europe and, second, as a means of contesting these discourses. The paper explores the way in which the UK press construct Balkanist discourses about Romania and Romanian migrants, and then analyses how the Romanian press has contested such discourses. The paper argues that the idea of the ‘East’ remains important in constructing notions of ‘Europe’ within popular media geographies