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hi again and welcome to video number three off the
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Europeanization lecture.
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So in the last video, we introduced the different you
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institutions. We talked about the European Commission, European Council on
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the Council on.
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We ended up talking about the European Parliament and so
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the next slide about the European Parliament, I wanted to
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show you Waas that we talked about when there is
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a national election.
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It's the national parties that that proposed their candidates for
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the European Parliament.
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But when the candidates I elected and go to the
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European Parliament, they're put into different groups at the European
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level as well.
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So it s and D, for example, I gave the
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example of it off voting for social Democrat and at
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the national level in in Sweden would end up in
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the S and D Group, where other Social Socialists or
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Social Democrats in the you are are to be found.
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That might also mean that other other parties that would
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normally not be seen together in the same grouping in
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Sweden because that might have different different.
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Your answers at a national level might end up in
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the same group at the European level so that can
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be a challenge.
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It can be a challenge when when, for example, parties
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that at the national level have strong divergence between one
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another by ending up in the same group at the
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EU level.
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That is very simple happened in the big conservative group
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biggest group in the European Parliament called the MPP Group,
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which is the group of the European People's Party.
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And the group also called for the conservatives in Europe
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that you have found parties that wanted to expel the
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Hungarian president Viktor Open because of his anti democratic measurements
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at the national level.
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However, since Viktor Orban has been a member on Dhe,
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his part has been a member of the E P
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P Group.
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It can be very hard for them to go against
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a member off their own group.
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So some of these intergroup conflicts between what is considered
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a national party interests and identity on the in the
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entity of the group at the European Parliament, a level
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can generate a conflict.
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It is also an issue and I'll return to that
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because when you vote, I'll just go back to this
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lad when you vote in the European Parliament election many
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people are not aware of this right?
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I'm not aware off the fact that there are so
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many different groups in the U and they also make
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a pattern off politicization understood in the way that you
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have to adhere to a group.
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Also, when you might disagree in some, some some areas
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and the group group identity might have become an issue
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off be a strong one at the European level.
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And many people don't know that when the vote for
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a particular candidate at the national level and then the
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last institution, uh, I'm gonna introduce now a za part
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of sort of the overall institutional network at the you
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is the European Court of Justice.
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So the European Court of Justice is basically the court
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sat down at the European level to ensure the interpretation
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and application off the different treaties are observed is a
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place. However, they also review the European Court of Justice
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also review the legality of EU laws, and it decides
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whether member states have fulfilled you law obligations.
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The European Court of Justice has played a major role
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in defining the fundamental principles governing the U powers and
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competences on did you authority as well as the relation
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between you and national laws.
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It shares worked with the general courts with Handled, which
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handles cases brought by private individuals and companies, or even
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organization on cases related to competition law.
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Both the European Court of Justice on the general courts
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are made up off one judge from each member states,
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so each member state also so Sweden sense object to
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the European Court of Justice.
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The European Court of Auditors plays a key role in
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monitoring the soundness of you finances.
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And it examines whether the U has received all the
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revenues and all the A, although revenues it's supposed to
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receive on whether expenditure has been cured in a lawful
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manner. So this was a brief introduction off the European
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Commission, the European Council, the Council, the European Parliament on
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the European Court of Justice.
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So in the next video, I think e think I
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close this video.
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There will be a short one now and in the
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fourth video will start to talk about the U decision
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making procedures.
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Thank you