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people crossing the Med. Caroline Abu Sa’Da is General Director of its Swiss branch. Juliano Fiori: SOS is very much a product of contemporary Europe. It’s a civic response to refugees and migrants in the Med but also to nationalistic politics, or to the return of nationalist movements to the forefront of European politics. How, then, does SOS differ from European humanitarian NGOs founded in past decades? Caroline Abu Sa’Da: SOS is a European citizen movement. Besides our search-and-rescue activities, we aim to give to the greatest number of
. 49 With respect to Liberia, see 6 European Political Co-operation Documentation Bulletin, p. 295 (1990) and regarding Chechnya, see Council of the European Union-General Secretariat, Press Release 4215/95 (Presse II-G), p. 1 (17 Jan. 1995) and again Press Release 4385/95 (Presse 24), at 1 (23 Jan. 1995). Cited in Tadic Appeals jurisdiction decision, paras
a systematisation of contemporary state relations reflecting the pre-eminence of sovereign states, whereas Wolff’s ideational system became anachronistic, reminiscent of an old era of European political unity. As a result, Vattel introduces certain principles such as liberty, independence, 15 equality, 16 or decisional autonomy. 17 These postulates negate authority or control because ‘[t]he liberty of a Nation would not
actors play a key role in defining policy alternatives. Two strands of neo-functional thought are relevant in this respect – functional and political spillover. From Ernst Haas’s early neo-functional work in The Uniting of Europe to more contemporary revisions, the concept of functional spillover has been an enduring centrepiece of neo-functional theory (Haas 1957). The content, timing and nature of this functional spillover has been questioned yet it continues to be employed by integration theorists as an intervening variable between functional action and European