Poltical Economy of European Integration M.A.
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This master thesis contributes to numerous studies on the unanticipated outcome of the
2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum and particularly focuses on
what role social media played in the Leave campaign. Informed by theories and studies on mass
media communication, propaganda and political communication, this topic has been examined
and resulted in the case study: how social media contributed to the success of the Leave side
during the referendum campaign. Based on pre-existed research, reports, and surveys, this work
discusses certain characteristics of statements by Nigel Farage (then a leader of United
Kingdom Independence Party) and its potential influence on voters’ decisions. For a better
overview of the Leave campaign, it also describes the pre-referendum environment created in
traditional and social media. The final part introduces the notorious case of Cambridge
Analytica and its use of personal data in order to change voters’ behaviour and make them optout of the membership in Europe. This study reveals a significant contribution of digital media
to the campaign strategy and making suggestions of what measures need to be taken towards
misused data and spreading disinformation on social platforms.
Recently migration has become a subject of concern all around the world. The EU has a long history of receiving migrants, however, with the emergence of the Arab Spring and a chain of revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, Europe had to elaborate a response to the increasing inflow of the illegal migrants. As the EU was mostly concerned about the border securitisation, the humanitarian crisis was unfolding. This paper explores the main migration and border regime policies of the EU to see their impact on the unauthorised border crossings at the illegal migration routes towards the EU. It argues that the migration crisis showed the incapacity of the EU institutions to respond efficiently and in proper time on the emerged challenges at the borders. This thesis explains how the major points of the border crossings were evolving depending on the national and supranational regulations. It was found out that the border regime of the EU wasn’t including mechanisms to deal with a large-scale migration and was based mostly on short-sighted policies. The paper calls for a comprehensive approach to the issue that would be based on solidarity between the Member States and binding regulations.
This master thesis aims to identify the defining variables for a market ramp-up of electric road systems (ERS) and to develop scenarios for the potential market launch of the technology in Germany and Europe. For this purpose, a comprehensive analysis of the political, regulatory and economic variables is conducted, which finally leads to the generation of different market ramp-up scenarios.
This paper investigates the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the catching-up level and global value chain (GVC) integration of new European member states (NMS), considering the manufacturing sector using data of different time spans within the 1990 – 2019 period. After analyzing the differences in FDI inflows in NMS, eight of them are chosen and focused in the study including Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania. Poland and Slovenia are discussed as case studies and evidences of GVC integration. The findings revealed that the inflows of FDI have limited impact and contribution to the improvement of the host economy’s manufacturing industry, economic development and GVC integration. Indeed, FDI mostly relates to product and process upgrading but not functional upgrading. Therefore, the development gap between the NMS and core European economies is not decreased over time. With regards to utilize FDI for economic upgrading, GVC integration, and catching-up, this research stresses the importance of host economies’ absorptive capability and government intervention through industrial policy.
The present master thesis analyzes the impact of the influx of asylum seekers during 2015/2016 on the asylum framework of the EU and the domestic asylum policy of the member states. The thesis argues that the refugee crisis has contributed significantly to the exposure of the numerous shortcomings of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) one of which is the ignorance of the persistent heterogeneity of the member states that hinders the harmonization of the asylum policies and reception conditions. The first part of the research deals with the baseline of the CEAS and the role of the supranational shaping of the asylum policy field during the current crisis. Following aspects will be here under scrutiny: persistent focus on the external border security arising from the Schengen Agreement, the problem of the burden-sharing under the Dublin Regulation as well as the achieving the goal of tempering the refugee influx by externalization of the issue through the Deal with Turkey. The empirical part focuses on the various EU member states, namely Germany, Greece, and Hungary. The research touches upon historical roots of the asylum policy of the respective member states, legislative developments happening during 2015/2016 and reception conditions. The thesis concludes that the lack of the legitimacy of the regulations coming from the supranational level along with the absence of the profound ideational basis for the elaboration of the common asylum policy facilitated by the deep-rooted diverse historical and institutional context hinders the EU member states to act sufficiently under the critical circumstances and provide an adequate and human-rights oriented response to the massive migratory inflows.