Visiting Fellows: Johann-Jakob Wulf, Dorian Jano, Zamira Xhaferri
Johann-Jakob Wulf - Macro-regional strategies in the European Union
description: After focusing on social and economical cohesion, the Treaty of Lisbon introduced a rather new goal of the Union: the Territorial Cohesion. Definitions of the new model are rare but first attempts of achieving this goal are the macro-regional strategies in the Baltic Sea Area and in the Danube Area. Another approach towards the Adriatic Sea is currently drawn up by DG Regio in Brussels. Johann-Jakob's thesis will compare both strategies with regards to their role in achieving the Territorial Cohesion and will analyze the friction between a new model of integration vs. the danger of defragmenting the EU.
Johann-Jakob Wulf got his B.A. from the University of Augsburg (European Cultural History) and holds a Master degree in International Relations from the Andrássy University Budapest where he is currently enrolled as a PhD student. He is a co-founder of the Young Citizens Danube Network which he also chairs. During his B.A. studies Johann-Jakob was an Erasmus student in Valencia (Spain) and organised trips to Model-UN in New York and Mexico. His work experience include internships at the Goethe-Institute Jerusalem and at BMW (Inhouse Consulting Department).
Dorian Jano - Adopting and Implementing EU Legislation: The Case of the Potential Member-States from Western Balkans (2005-2009)
descripition: Compliance with and/or implementation of the acquis communautaire as well as their causal related conditions have been theoretically argued and empirically tested in the European Union member-states and Central Eastern European countries. The focus of the research is the analysis of conditions that enable compliance with EU legislation in the potential member-state countries from the Western Balkans.
Dorian Jano got his PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan. He holds also a Master degree in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES) from the University of Bologna and a Bachelor degree in Economics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Before coming to Europa-Kolleg he was a NewDem research fellow at the Institute for Advance Studies at Collegium Budapest. Dorian's academic interest and research regards EU Enlargement, Europeanization and South-Eastern Europe. He has carried out research related to the above mention topics, some of which have been presented at international conferences and/or been published in international peer reviewed academic journals or edited volumes.
Zamira Xhaferri - Post-Lisbon Delegated and Implementing Acts: A Critical Approach
description: The research aims to analyze what the new typology of non-legislative acts introduced by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) entails, what the divide between ‘delegated’ and ‘implementing’ acts means and what the problems with this dichotomy are. It further examines the direct impact of this dichotomy in the new institutional design of comitology. As these amendments can change or as the European Commission prefers to see it, restore,the inter-institutional balance of powers, this research will further explore the extent to which the inter-institutional balance of powers has been shifted and what the gains and losses are for the ‘new’ or ‘re-adjusted’ balance of powers concerning the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. It concludes by evaluating whether the changes for delegated and implementing acts have further simplified the pre-Lisbon regime (enhancing the democratic accountability and the efficiency of new decision-making system) or instead, they produce legal and institutional intricacies.
Zamira Xhaferri achieved the Advanced Master in International and European Economic Law of the University of Maastricht in 2011. She achieved an LL.M. in Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg and the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2009 and gained her Bachelor of Law Studies at the University of Tirana in 2001. She has worked for the Office of the Albanian Primeminister, a leading Albanian Law Firm and the OSCE. Zamira's research interests include institutional EU law - comitology and agencies, market intetration and governance), EU administrative governance, EU constitutional law, and competition law and economics. She has recently co-authored the publication "Cooling-Off Periods from a Law and Economics Perspective" which is published in Albanian Journal for Legal Studies (2011), Vol. 2, 154-160 (peer-reviewed journal).
Former Visiting Fellows
2011
Piero Cavicchi, Italy
„The European Commission’s discretion as to the adoption of Article 9 commitment decisions:
Lessons from Alrosa"
Discussion Paper Nr. 3/11
Andrea Gyulai-Schmidt, Péter Pázmán University Budapest (Hungary)
“Entwicklung der Europäischen Rechtssprechung zum Vergaberecht im Bereich der Dienstleistungen von allgemeinem wirtschaftlichen Interesse”
2010
Viesturs Pauls Karnups, University of Latvia
“Latvian Foreign Trade and Investment with Germany and Russia: Past and Present”
Discussion Paper Nr. 4/10
2009
Shiwei Shi, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing (China)
„Auswirkungen des Beitritts Chinas zur WTO auf die Wettbewerbspolitik in China: Eine institutionenöknomische Betrachtung“
Discussion Paper Nr. 2/09
Jüri Sepp, University of Tartu, Estonia
„Industriestruktur als Ursache für Produktivitätsunterschiede in Europa: Das Beispiel Estland“
Discussion Paper Nr. 1/09