Bulletin n. 3/2010
January 2011
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
    • Ueberecken Raoul
    Un feuilleton à rebondissements: l'affaire Swift
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 542, octobre-novembre ,  2010 ,  566-573
    The Swift case, named by the financial message company, helps shed light on the operation of European institutions in a transition period. The massive private data transfer to the United States for the purpose of fighting terrorism is brought to the public in 2006. After a rather awift solving by the european Union, the case was believed to be closed. Yet a change dictated by a private operator forces Europeans and Americans to find new solutions to allow continuous information flow. Due to a change in the schedule, the search for those solutions coincides with the implementation of the Lisbon treaty. Institutions, one more than others, see an opportunity for a power game. This article describes the timing and stresses the most meaningful episodes.
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