Regulations, policies and practices concerning work stress in five European countries

A comparative inventory of regulations, policies and practices in The Netherlands, Sweden, UK, Germany and France with regard to the prevention of work stress was carried out. In each country data were collected by means of interviews with key informants and through exploring relevant documents and literature. It was found that Sweden, The Netherlands and the UK—those countries with framework legislation in the field of health and safety—recognize stress as an important health and safety topic, whereas Germany and France do not yet recognize stress as an important policy issue. However, even in the first group of countries less attention is being paid towards psychosocial work characteristics when compared with traditional health and safety issues, such as noise, machine safety and toxic agents. There is a clear lack of well-documented (national) 'examples of good preventive practice', even in Sweden and The Netherlands. Recommendations are being formulated concerning type of legislation, guidance and information, monitoring and risk assessment, costs and benefits, examples of good practice and European networking.     

European management and European business schools: Insights from the history of business schools

This article looks at the history of business schools and identifies specific characteristics that are common to European management schools. On the basis of these characteristics, European management is subsequently defined as a cross-cultural, societal management approach based on interdisciplinary principles. In a final step, a closer look is taken at how European business schools should prepare their students for the unique European management context. It is suggested that such schools should provide courses on cross-cultural management and courses explaining the interdependencies between the private and public sector, offer students opportunities to experience other cultures over the course of their studies, and teach management from an interdisciplinary and practically-oriented perspective.     

转型视角下的欧洲联盟治理

关注欧洲治理的转型使我们面临困惑,虽然各成员国主权与管理权力的转让日渐增加。但根据国家意愿来制定政策这一原则依然显示出无限的活力。在欧洲决策中,私人利益与公共利益之间的天平似乎已向前者倾斜而对后者不利,但正是欧洲政体的特殊性质使得公共行为体得以继续存在。为了更好地理解欧洲治理的转型,采取不同的研究方法可能会有所助益。这不是指政府不同层级或不同种类的利益行为体之间权力关系的改变,而是指治理实践的变化和对治理内涵的理解。     

浅析欧盟东扩后的民族构成

欧盟东扩后,其成员国从15个增加到25个,民族构成更加复杂,潜在的民族问题也通过民族国家的形式表现得更加明显。欧洲历史上的所有民族都经历了争夺生存空间和有限资源的血腥战争,形成了单一民族为主体的国家。作为保护民族利益的政治实体,欧盟民族国家维护自身权益的行动是可以理解的。欧盟在深化体制改革和扩大势力范围的过程中,必须面对和处理好日益凸显的民族问题。     

地理想像与文学明喻--近代西方地理学对弥尔顿的影响

地理学是弥尔顿所关心的新兴学问之一,他认为地理学是博雅教育中重要的一环,并且长期关注地图的出版。他对地理学的兴趣也反映在诗歌作品如《失乐园》及《复乐园》当中。特别是在《失乐园》中,他透过明喻将撒旦的行动或经验比拟为欧洲远洋贸易的商船船队,这些商船船队穿过好望角,来往于大西洋与印度洋之间,在香料的交易上获得巨额利润。弥尔顿透过这样的明喻,制造出一种互文批判的效果：一方面由商船来批判撒旦,一方面也由撒旦来批判商船。这证明了地理知识对弥尔顿的思想及作品有相当程度的影响。     

欧盟2012年第650号涉外继承条例研究

欧盟2012年第650号涉外继承条例条例在适用范围、管辖权分配、继承准据法的确定、判决的承认和可执行性与执行、公文书和法庭和解、欧洲继承证书的颁发及效力等方面作出了明确规定。条例确立了"惯常居所"连结点在管辖权和准据法确定中的基础性地位,在继承准据法的选择上采用"同一制",并创设了具有开拓意义的欧洲继承证书。中国应坚持"经常居所地"连结点的原则性与灵活性的结合运用,采用有例外的"同一制"继承准据法选择方法,增强两岸四地在民商事领域的司法互信,并设立由两岸四地人员组成的专门的常设官方机构,推动我国区际私法的统一化进程。     

Smothered to (un)death: on identity and the European court of human rights as an administrator of human life

Human rights have become one of the most important tools for construction of identities in our era. Perhaps the most important in this process is the right to private and family life which is the most commonly invoked right in cases involving the most fundamental aspects of human life, such as marriage, abortion, surveillance and genetics. This article provides an overview of how the European Court of Human Rights deals with these biopolitically sensitive cases in the condition of indeterminacy of human rights. It is argued that the understandable reluctance of the Court to pronounce anything on these matters and its consequent use of the margin of appreciation doctrine, with the sole exception of valorization of life as such – as survival – leads to reinforcement of the link between the sovereign and bare life as well as the dominance of fixed, already-existing identities over the multiple, blurry identities of the whatever being. This has detrimental consequences for the constantly ongoing process of construction of the self, always in a state of becoming.     

欧盟共同金融政策的发展与调整

欧盟共同金融政策成型于1986年开始的欧共体单一市场计划,其目标是建立高效、富于竞争性的共同体单一金融市场,促进区域经济增长.其发展经历了区域内金融开放以及金融服务行动计划下的规则和谐化两个阶段,推动了欧盟金融一体化程度的提高,金融服务业市场竞争与效率的改善.但是,欧盟单一金融市场建设中还存在一体化程度不均衡等诸多问题,欧盟当局将在金融服务行动计划的基础上,推动金融部门欧盟内的动态重组进程,调整金融监管思路,以全球性视野处理内部金融问题,实现既定的金融发展目标.     

20世纪美国州政府的立法体制改革

为重新确立州立法机构的地位和提高立法过程的民主化水平,美国各州自十九、二十世纪之交开始了对立法体制的改革。在随后近一个世纪的时期中,各州相继进行了立法机构的职业化改革、议席分配的平等化改革、选区划分的合理化改革和立法体制的民主化改革。至20世纪末,改革者们设定的目标基本得到实现。然而,民众对改革后果并不是很满意,他们自1990年代以来又提出了许多反向的改革主张。     

欧盟反种族主义政策:发展历程与新动向

欧盟反种族主义与歧视政策从位于欧盟社会政策的边缘到中心的进程,主要是由欧盟社会政策模式之变化推动的。后者对基本权利的诉求,以及消除自由市场障碍的就业战略合力推动其发展。欧盟与其成员国在政策之法律权限上的博弈斗争贯穿了政策的整个发展历程,并最终获得了打击种族主义的权限。欧盟种族立法对于打击欧洲种族主义与深化一体化产生了积极影响,但由于受从属性原则的制约,其对成员国种族立法的影响仍然有限。