Bulletin n. 1/2008
May 2008
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Abbas Mehdi
    La proposition d'une taxe CO2 aux frontères. Vers une stratégie européenneen matière de régulation commerciale et de lutte contre le changement climatique?
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , numero 513, décembre ,  2007 ,  628-637
    The fight against global warming has become the most important issue on the EU international agenda. In this context, France has taken the initiative of a CO2 border tax adjustment than aims at two objectives: i) to avoid competitive distortions towards the European industries that suffer from the cost of implementing the Kyoto Protocol and ii) to incite joining and implementing the Protocol. The article analyses the compatibility of a border tax adjustment with the WTO regime. It shows that such a tax would not be possible. This is why are presented other strategies, not mutually exclusive, available to the EU for a project of global governance. The objective is to generate a synery between trade and climate regimes. The issue is to prepare now the post-Kyoto agenda which will come into force in 2012. The article stresses the necessity for the EU to develop such an offer that gives rise to great powers adhesion and for a change in the actual interstate coalition equilibrium.
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