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Ce volume rassemble vingt-six textes précédemment parus (à une exception près : l'Evangile de Judas) dans les éditions respectivement consacrées au Nouveau Testament, aux Ecrits apocryphes chrétiens

Marie-Thérèse BitschComment fonctionne le couple Région-Europe ? Voilà la question centrale de cet ouvrage qui réunit des contributions de près de 30 spécialistes, historiens, juristes, politologues,

Francis Snyder The European Union (EU) is one of the most important sites of governance in the contemporary world. It bas also taken the lead in developing new forms of governance. For fifty years the EC/EU has been embarked on a major project of regional economic and political integration. Its specific characteristics distinguish it from nation-states, international organisations and other sites of governance. An important aspect of the EU divided-power system is the distribution of competencies and powers between the EU/EC and the Member States. So far, however, this distribution has not been very clearly defined, at least in legal terms. Substantial questions remain about the extent to winch the EU/EC is competent to act and what powers it may use. These questions concern the internal market and other aspects of intra-EU/EC policy as well as external relations. These crucial issues about governance and regulation, powers and competence and relations between the EU and its partners form the subject of this book. The first part of the book concerns governance and regulation. It examines recent developments in European company law, the social aspects of public procurement law as part of the European economic constitution, harmonisation of direct taxes, the effectiveness of EC legislation on combating trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of children, the retroactivity of Community law in the new Member States, and the regulation of the Internet. The second part of the book concerns the issues of powers and competence. It discusses the principle of horizontal coherence with regard to EU external relations, the EC's competence in relation to the proposed Hague Convention on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters and the concept of sovereignty as applied to the European Community and its Member States. The third part of the book focuses on relations between the EU and its partners in the world political and economic. It concerns reforms of the CFSP, the Community's new policy of economic, financial and technical cooperation, the development of a common European regime for asylum and the EU human rights system in its international context. This bilingual volume comprises the revised versions of papers first presented at the First International Workshop for Young

This study of contemporary Swiss politics draws on research in Switzerland, and the author's own observations and offers wide coverage of Swiss political forces, processes and policies. Clive H. Church argues that Switzerland is actually a vibrant and pluralist polity, in which politics are increasingly competitive. However, it still retains some distinctive characteristics like direct democracy, which mean that the Swiss people play a larger role than in other countries.

For over one hundred years, the British economy has been in decline relative to other industrialized countries. This book explores the origins of Britain''s economic problems and develops a striking new argument about the sources of decline. It goes on to analyze the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain from the development of Keynesianism to the rise of monetarism under Margaret Thatcher. France, by contrast, experienced an economic miracle in the postwar period. Hall argues that the French state transformed itself and then its society through an extensive system of state intervention. In the recent period, however, the French system has encountered many difficulties, and the book locates their sources in the complex interaction between state and society in France culminating in the socialist experiment of Francois Mitterrand. Through his insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall develops a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.

Se trata de un comentario ágil y exhaustivo de la Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, cumplidos quince años de su entrada en vigor. Incorpora las reformas, ciertamente sustanciales, que durante este tiempo la han afectado. Al hilo del comentario sistematizado, se expone la doctrina científica y jurisprudencial sobre la materia y se hace especial referencia a las modificaciones operadas por la Ley 54/2003, de 12 de diciembre (de reforma del marco normativo de la Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales), la Ley 31/2006, de 18 de octubre (sobre implicación de los trabajadores en las sociedades anónimas y cooperativas europeas), la Ley Orgánica 3/2007, de 22 de marzo (para la igualdad efectiva de mujeres y hombres) y la Ley 25/2009, de 22 de diciembre (de modificación de diversas Leyes para su adaptación a la ley sobre el libre acceso a las actividades de servicios y su ejercicio), así como al numeroso desarrollo reglamentario, incluyendo el Real Decreto 67/2010, de 29 de enero, de adaptación de la legislación de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales a la Administración General del Estado. Para la elaboración de esta monografía se ha reunido un excepcional elenco de especialistas en Derecho de la Prevención de Riesgos Laborales. De su mano se afronta el comentario individualizado de cada uno de los artículos y disposiciones que integran la norma. La facilidad de consulta que proporciona esa metodología se acompaña de una vasta exposición de la interpretación de los Tribunales, y las opiniones doctrinales. Los ingredientes señalados garantizan la extraordinaria utilidad de un libro pensado para el profesional (empresarios, trabajadores, responsables de los servicios de prevención, Administraciones Públicas, etc.) que requiere una información jurídica rigurosa, ágil y completa. Tanto por esas circunstancias cuanto por la colección en que se integra, la obra nace con la vocación de convertirse en una referencia inexcusable en este ámbito del Derecho social, cuya relevancia aumenta día a día.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.

This highly regarded text presents a comprehensive and balanced introduction to both qualitative and quantitative approaches to social research, emphasizing the benefits of combining various approach