‘BELEDİYELERİN SOSYAL HİZMET ALANINDA YAPTIĞI FAALİYETLER: İZMİT ÖRNEĞİ

Author(s): İbrahim GÖKTAŞ / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 44/2019

Municipalities are the most functional units of local government in our country, both in terms of administrative and budget. In recent years, it is seen that municipalities have become an important actor with their social policy practices. Especially since the 1990s, municipalities have started to provide services in areas that cover the social service problems of the people as well as general municipal services, and some have started to improve the quality of the services they provide. In recent years, municipalities have provided a wide range of services for “women, children, disabled people, the elderly, the poor, the needy in care, the destitute, refugees, " which have been described as disadvantaged groups.

„СЕЛО НАЗАЕМ“ И „РЕЗИДЕНЦИЯ БАБА“ - НОВИТЕ ВЪЗМОЖНОСТИ ЗА БЪЛГАРСКИТЕ СЕЛА

Author(s): Hyuliya Ahmed / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 19/2021

The rapidly evolving consumer society is able to “enjoy” very quickly everything that the market has to offer – from communication technologies, through fashion in different spheres, to tourism products. In recent decades, so-called “rural tourism” has become particularly popular. Described as “the best way to get to know Bulgarian traditions” 295 in the Official Tourism Portal of Bulgaria, staying in the countryside, milking animals and mowing are offered as an attraction and fun way to spend the vacation. Being able to interact with people with different professions and interests in something as meaningful as reviving a desolate countryside and doing it voluntarily through projects such as “Selo Nazaem” and “Rezidentsia Baba” is one of the positive things that happen to society, thanks to the social networks. The ideas at the heart of these projects are spreading, complementing and finding new adherents through different people, who seek to preserve the cultural heritage, as well as to evaluate and pass it on to future generations.

「深い学び」のための哲学カフェの実践 -「主体」概念と「私的な話題」に注目して

Author(s): Kenji Kawamoto / Language(s): Japanese Publication Year: 0

In recent years, it has been recommended "proactive, interactive, and deep learning" in the education fields from the viewpoint of Active Learning by the Japanese government. In this study, conceptually reconsidered the "proactive, interactive, and deep learning" and carried out practical activities based on that. First of all, it is considered the concept of "Subjectivity (SHUTAI)" and "Dialogue" philosophically, and then carried out the activity called "Philosophy Cafe" based on that consideration. The questionnaire survey after this activity has confirmed that students who did not participate actively, participated in dialogue more relaxedly in "Philosophy Cafe". From this result, it is insisted that a relaxed community such as Philosophy Cafe, which is different from the conventional school evaluation method, is useful for learner care.

№102. Bulgaria and Romania’s Accession to the EU: Postponement, Safeguards and the Rule of Law

Author(s): Gergana Noutcheva / Language(s): English

On the day before the European Commission’s decision on the fitness of Bulgaria and Romania to become EU members on 1 January 2007 (due to be delivered 16 May 2006), it is becoming increasingly evident that the EU has fallen into its own ‘rhetorical trap’ from which there is no easy way out. Most EU officials and politicians would agree that the governance standards in the two Balkan candidates are not up to EU level yet, but everyone knows that there is not much the EU can do about it at this point.

№113. Just what is this ‘absorption capacity’ of the European Union?

Author(s): Michael Emerson,Senem Aydin,Julia De Clerck-Sachsse,Gergana Noutcheva / Language(s): English

There is a tendency in some political discourse now to say that, because the Constitution that was meant to prepare for enlargement failed to be ratified, the enlargement process has now hit a roadblock called ‘absorption capacity’. An alternative narrative is that the Constitution proposed some useful but marginal systemic changes, but its ratification was badly mismanaged by some political leaders. In the meantime, the EU has not experienced gridlock, and its current major political issues have nothing to do with enlargement. The case for a pause after the 2004 and 2007 enlargements is undeniable. EU27 will have to settle down, and sort out the constitutional imbroglio. However the plausible time horizon for any next major enlargement is many years ahead, maybe 2015, with various transitional arrangements pushing the real date in important respects beyond 2020 (e.g. for the labour market). The vague idea of ‘absorption capacity’ is better deconstructed into more precise and objective components such as the capacity of the EU’s internal market, labour market, budget, eurozone and institutional system to absorb new member states, society’s capacity to absorb immigration and the EU’s capacity for assuring its strategic security. All these issues can be discussed, but they are not static matters. Changes in public opinion may be expected to follow from new realities. The dynamics of enhancing capacities for change deserve priority attention. The ‘final frontiers’ proposition (presumably to the exclusion of both Turkey and Ukraine at the least) is a thoroughly bad idea, since there are well-established outer limits in any case to the map of Europe (e.g. Council of Europe membership) and to EU membership as in the Treaty of Rome. It would be a strategic blunder for the EU now to invent a new irreversible dividing line within this map between ‘real Europe’ and an imagined ‘other’ (uncivilised?) Europe beyond. The term ‘absorption capacity’ should be dropped from use in official texts, unless deconstructed into objective elements. Otherwise it is giving the impression of some pseudo-scientific and static reality, and plays into the hands of populist political rhetoric.

№216. From Lisbon to Deauville: Practicalities of the Lisbon treaty revision(s)

Author(s): Piotr Maciej Kaczyński,Peadar ó Broin / Language(s): English

It has only been one year since the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force and already there is a stack of pending issues requiring primary law change in the EU. The Franco-German Deauville Declaration of 18 October 2010 is probably the most politically prominent of them all, yet it is not the first, nor will it be the last in a long, incremental process of constant treaty revision similar to the national process of amending national constitutions. All of these proposals have one feature in common: none of them is an overarching treaty change and each one is designed in such a way that amends only one element of the system. This, in theory, should avoid the need to submit the change to public referenda in the EU as part of the ratification process. This paper explores the political difficulties of treaty reform in the context of five pending revisions. It first looks at the Deauville Declaration and its translation into political and legal reality. The second part is dedicated to the four other treaty revisions on the European agenda. Finally, it focuses on some of the potential problems in the ratification phase.

№231. Single eComms market? No such thing…

Author(s): Andrea Renda,Jacques Pelkmans / Language(s): English

Not withstanding the undeniable success of telecoms liberalisation in terms of price reduction, new services and technologies as well as consumer satisfaction, EU telecoms policy is at least a half failure. This might seem hard to believe, but we show in this Policy Brief that there is no such thing as an EU telecoms (or eComms) single market. We provide ample empirical economic and regulatory evidence of profound and lingering fragmentation as well as a brief assessment of the flaws of the third eComms package of 2009, now in force. Overcoming the fragmentation cannot but yield a considerable welfare improvement for the Union, which is exactly what a single market should be expected to deliver. Doing away with the flaws in the EU system requires a better institutional design. We wonder whether the regulatory (and competition policy) approach is really suitable for the Union and whether the fundamental conflict between the EU constitutional doctrine and the building of the single market (just as much a constitutional duty!) should not be resolved in novel ways.

№239. A New Framework for Euro-Med Cooperation on Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Support

The Role of the Union for the Mediterranean

Author(s): Rym Ayadi,Antonio Fanelli / Language(s): English

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are the driving force behind economic development in the Mediterranean. They perform an essential roleas providers of employment and innovation opportunities and act as key players for regional and local development and social cohesion.

№263. Stepping up Growth Policies

Author(s): Stefano Micossi / Language(s): English

The eurozone is in recession and will show negative growth in 2012; GDP will fall sharply in Greece and Portugal, and there is substantial risk that Spain and Italy will follow suit (the Commission’s recent forecasts seem overly optimistic and complacent; the IMF is more downbeat). But fiscal policies are uniformly restrictive throughout the eurozone and much of the Union, and the hopes that fiscal consolidation could spur growth by improving household and business confidence are not materialising. In reality, domestic demand has been hit too hard by fiscal consolidation, and investment throughout the Union remains well below pre-crisis levels.

№288. Principles of a Two-Tier European Deposit (Re-)Insurance System

Author(s): Daniel Gros / Language(s): English

There is general agreement that banking supervision and resolution have to be organised at the same level. It is often argued, however, that there is no need to tackle deposit insurance because it is too politically sensitive.

№302. The Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure and Germany: When is a surplus an “imbalance”?

Author(s): Matthias Busse,Daniel Gros / Language(s): English

The Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) was largely designed to prevent another boom/bust cycle as occurred in Spain and Ireland. But now, with the release by the European Commission on November 13th of its latest Alert Mechanism Report (AMR), which was introduced with the European Semester, this procedure is being used to address a surplus (that of Germany), which is widely perceived as constituting aproblem for the euro area’s recovery.

№304. The New European Framework for Managing Bank Crises

Author(s): Jacopo Carmassi,Ginevra Bruzzone,Stefano Micossi / Language(s): English

The proposals under discussion for a Single Banking Resolution Regulation establishing a centralised mechanism for countries participating in the Single Supervisory Mechanism and a Resolution Directive are generally well designed and coherent. Yet there is a need to streamline the procedures for deciding the start of resolution and managing the subsequent action, which now entail much overlap in the powers attributed to the institutions involved (the Commission, the Single Resolution Board and the European Central Bank).

№307. REACH: A killer whale for SMEs?

Author(s): Lorna Schrefler,Jacques Pelkmans,Ineke Gubbels / Language(s): English

REACH is a very demanding system for any business either large or small, yet right from the startone of the more serious concerns was whether and how SMEs could cope with the Regulation. After all, some 27,600 companies in EU chemistry are SMEs (95% of all firms). Seven years downthe line, many of these fears are materialising.

№52 Justice and Home Affairs Databases and a Smart Borders System at EU External Borders. An Evaluation of Current and Forthcoming Proposals

Author(s): Didier Bigo,Sergio Carrera,Ben Hayes,Nicholas Hernanz,Julien Jeandesboz / Language(s): English

This study examines current and forthcoming measures related to the exchange of data and information in EU Justice and Home Affairs policies, with a focus on the ‘smart borders’ initiative. It argues that there is no reversibility in the growing reliance on such schemes and asks whether current and forthcoming proposals are necessary and original. It outlines the main challenges raised by the proposals, including issues related to the right to data protection, but also to privacy and non-discrimination.

№53 EU Home Affairs Agencies and the Construction of EU Internal Security

Author(s): Joanna Parkin / Language(s): English

Regulatory agencies such as Europol, Frontex, Eurojust, CEPOL as well as bodies such as OLAF, have over the past decade become increasingly active within the institutional architecture constituting the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and are now placed at the forefront of implementing and developing the EU’s internal security model. A prominent feature of agency activity is the large-scale proliferation of‘knowledge’ on security threats via the production of policy tools such as threat assessments, risk analyses, periodic and situation reports. These instruments now play a critical role in providing the evidence-base that supports EU policy making,with agency-generated ‘knowledge’ feeding political priority settingand decision-making within the EU’s new Internal Security Strategy (ISS).

№69 ‘Wrong number?’ The Use and Misuse of Asylum Data in the European Union

Author(s): Minos Mouzourakis / Language(s): English

The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is a policy area particularly evocative of the ‘politics of numbers’. The European Union has at its disposal a wide array of sources providing detailed information about its member states’ asylum systems’ capacities and pressures. This paper discusses thecontent of asylum data and the evolving interaction between its different sources, ranging from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to the European Commission’s EUROSTAT and DGHOME, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), FRONTEX, the European Migration Network (EMN) and national databases. However, the way in which such data are often misused, or even omitted,in political debate exerts a strong impact on the soundness of policy decisions in the CEAS.

№70 Statistics on Loss of Nationality in the EU

Author(s): Maarten Peter Vink,Ngo Chun Luk / Language(s): English

Within the European Union (EU), much progress has been made over the past years with regard to the collection of comparable and reliable information on the regulations with regard to the acquisition and loss of nationality in the Member States of the EU. The ILEC project provides much-needed additional information on the regulation and administrative practices on involuntary loss of nationality in the EU. While EU and international law provide important normative standards for the evaluation of these regulations and practices, in order to understand their practical relevance it is also important to have an insight in how many people are affected by such rules and practices.

№90 The Cost of Non-Europe in the Area of Organised Crime

Author(s): Sergio Carrera,Elspeth Guild,Lina Vosyliūtė,Amandine Scherrer,Valsamis Mitsilegas,Mirja Gutheil,Quentin Liger,Gareth Harper / Language(s): English

This Research Paper examines the costs of non-Europe in the field of organised crime. It provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the main legal/ethical, socio-political and economic costs and benefits of the EU in policies on organised crime. It offers an in-depth examination of the transformative contribution that the EU has made, in terms of investigation, prosecution and efficiency, to trans-border operational activities and the protection of its citizens’ rights. Finally, it seeks to answer the questions of what are the costs and benefits of European cooperation and what forms of cooperation would bring more European added value.

البحث العروضي في موسوعة كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون والعلوم للتهانوي

Author(s): Hüseyin Abdullatif Abdullah / Language(s): Arabic Issue: 12/2016

This research deals with the subjects about prosody and rhyme sciences which have very significant areas among scientific concepts of the Tahanawe’s Encyclopedia. The concepts about prosody spread in various sciences were identified in this study. After studied the biography of the writer, we revealed the methods that he had followed while gathering all concepts especially prosody. Firstly, the concepts about prosody were enlisted in alphabetical order. Then we focused on the relationship between their lexical meanings and lexicology. Our primary purpose on this study is to indicate from which resources and with which methods the writer obtained these articles about that subject, and his endeavor on his works. Finally, we presented the conclusion part and the works cited.

التضليل اليهودي المتعمد والتحريف العدائي المضلل في تفسير بعض آيات سورة يوسف )التفاسير – الكتاب المقدس). دراسة عرضية ونقدية

Author(s): Rafik Qassem / Language(s): Arabic Issue: 8/2019

There is no doubt that the Jewish disinformation against the prophets peace be upon them is stated in the silence of truthful facts about them. It made them "Jews" to win them even after their death, as known as history of the Jews with their prophets murder and revenge, and even avenge them alive and dead, which may miss the majority of researchers especially in the field of Sharia. These topics must be explained to the people and narrated and explained in a correct way, away from blind fanaticism or the dissemination of disinformation and lies that mislead the prophets, especially Jews, because it is mixed with lies and slander and falsehoods that did not find any true source neutral to what they have said. These Jewish implications have a serious impact on the unity of the nation, and caused a moral deviation in the understanding of the people of the story of Joseph. It called for accepting the vice being possible even among prophets, and cause a serious danger in the conservative community, in proportion to what they want and even seek to distort the Islamic religion as a whole. The search method is to examine the information received by the Jews, especially in the books of interpretation, in order to uncover the false texts in their books as well as the analysis of the narratives issued against the prophets, compared to the Koranic text compatible with the legislative text in the stories.