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This paper compares and contrasts the discourses and practices of intra-EU migration in France and the UK. In both, emigration and immigration are significant and contemporary facts of national life; in each, traditional patterns are being challenged; and in both cases, scare-mongering in this regard has been a dominant feature of recent discourse. In particular, the free movement of people associated with the 2004 and 2007 (but especially 2004) enlargements of the EU posed specific policy challenges to political leaders and local communities alike. In France, the phenomenon contributed to the rejection of the EU’s Constitutional Treaty; in the UK, the government failed first to predict the numbers of economic migrants from East Europe, and then to count them once they had arrived. Both countries, finally, are experiencing significant cross-Channel mobility: a microcosm of intra-EU migration per se. France is for sale, it would appear (cheap houses), while the French are for hire (cheap labour). These stereotypes should tell us something about the range of political discourses we can expect when exploring the characteristics of intra-EU mobility, and the relations between movement on the one hand, and public policy on the other. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article applies constitutional economics to regional integration in the area of legal integration and tests its predictions against data on citation rates in Irish, British, and German courts. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this essay is to examine the future of Britain and Britishness considering simultaneous challenges of immigration, devolution, and further integration into the EU. There are two manners of interpreting the meaning of Britishness. One group emphasizes the formal characteristic of Britishness, which has no substances and is seen as soon disappearing in the face of devolution and European integration. The other perspective stresses the positive contribution of Britain to the development of democracy and expects the nation’s core values to continue after adjusting themselves to various challenges. I explore whether Britishness has been shared or denied and reinforced or weakened among six different groups, namely Welsh and Scottish separatism, English nationalism, Conservative and Labor’s British nationalism, and that of ethnic minorities. I also explore how these groups justify their position on devolution, European integration, and multiculturalism. This essay eventually focuses on New Labor’s rationales to reshape Britain and reinforce Britishness. I analyze New Labor’s project in terms of a multilevel governance entity that has different power of self-government according to regions, and address a possibility of success in terms of a combination of pride and interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to understand Great Britain's liberal immigration policy with regard to the 2004 European Union accession countries within the broader context of its historically restrcitive border controls. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the economic consequences of diversion of migration flows in the context of the EU Eastern enlargement. We find that the joint GDP of Germany and the UK declines as a result of the migration restrictions. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the decline in support for major political parties in Western Europe, specifically, France, the UK, and German, this paper investigates the relationship between citizens, political parties, and the European Union. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the agenda-setting and priming functions of the British and French media on the EU enlargement by combining a content analysis of The Times, The Guardian, The Mail, Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Liration and Eurobarometer survey data. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies Britain's support for NATO and EU rapid reaction forces. Emphasizing the interoperability of these forces, Britain seeks to bridge the widening strategic divide between America and Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently all EU members have Parliamentary Scrutiny Committees to correct for democratic deficits. While convergence on the most effective models would be fully expected, examination of the British model suggests that this has not been the case. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]