The making of EU foreign policy

the case of Eastern Europe

Changing institutions in the European Union

a public choice perspective

This book makes a valuable, analytical contribution to recent debates on the ongoing institutional changes occurring within the European Union. It provides a comprehensive and diverse insight into a variety of areas, including in-depth studies of fiscal, monetary and voting issues, to help elucidate the ...

Copyright, limitations and the Three-Steps Test

an analysis of the Three-Steps Test in international and Ec Copyright Law

European Union enlargement

Since its first enlargement in 1973, expansion has become a way of life for the EU. The current round of enlargement is, however, unprecedented in its scale, in the diversity of applicants, and in the impact on EU structures and policies. This major new text ...

Euroepan Union Law in a global context

text, cases and materials

Rethinking European Union foreign policy

Von Maastricht bis Nizza

neuformen differenzierter integration in der Europäischen Union

Der vertrag von Maastricht ermächtigte eine gruppe von EU- Mitgliedstaaten, den rechtlichen un instututionellen Rehmen der Europäschen Union in Anspruch zu nehmen, um den europäischen Union in Anspruch zu nehmen, um den europäischen Integrationsprozess auf wichtigen Politikfeldern vor einem Stillstrad zu bewahren. Anhand der gemeinsamen ...

Eu enlargement

a legal approach

The enlargement of the EU to embrace Central, Eastern and Southern Europe is usually analysed from political and economic points of view, but the current process also has significant legal implications, which this edited collection aims to explore. Written by scholars and officials from both ...

US and EC oligopoly control

When major suppliers independently (or otherwise) perceive that they can collectively control the market price of a product, is it collusion? Not necessarily. Yet for consumers this interdependent pricing variously called tacit collusion, or conscious parallellism is experienced precisely as collusion would be experienced. This ...

European integration and industrial relations

multi-level governance in the making

This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and outcomes. It organizes an immensely rich body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Cross-national influences are shown ...

Principles of european environmental Law

EC and UK competition Law

commentary, cases and materials

EC and UK Competition Law: Commentary, Cases and Materials offers a clear, concise and comprehensive account of the competition rules of the EC and the UK. EC Competition rules are an important source of consultation, increasingly serving as a model followed by many countries when ...

Employment policy and the regulation of part-time work in the European Union

a comparative analysis

This book originates from the research project #New discourses in labour law# held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal domestic choices of the legislatures have merged into ...

Europe and the politics of capabilities

The social agenda of the European Union is shifting towards broad social initiatives that align social and economic objectives with the promotion of employment. This calls for an action framework that allows social dialogue and political deliberation to inform and complement legislative action at all ...

Tratado por el que se establece una Constitución para Europa

El presente volumen recoge el Tratado por el que se establece un Constitución para Europa, adoptado de común acuerdo el 18 de junio de 2004 por los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de los veinticinco Estados miembros de la Unión Europea. El texto va ...

Las reformas fiscales en Europa

Law, legitimacy, and european governance

functional participation in social regulation

This volume examines the role of law in increasing the legitimacy of European decision-making by structuring and facilitating diverse forms of participation, representation, and deliberation whilst ensuring transparency and accountability. The democratic deficit and the legitimacy of the European Union have attracted the attention of ...

Workers, establishment, and services in the European Union

The free movement of persons and services are key elements, alongside the free movement of goods and capital, in the fundamental freedoms which underpin the European internal market. In recent years two key themes have emerged from the case law of the European Court of ...

La cesión global de activo y pasivo como mecanismo de liquidación y como supuesto de modificación estructural

Il principio di trasparenza nell'ordinamento dell'Unione Europea