Reconciling the Deepening and Widening of the European Union

Herausgegeben von Blockmans, Steven; Prechal, Sacha

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The recent rounds of enlargement have stretched the operational capacity of the European Union to the maximum, triggering a debate on the final shape and borders of the EU and prompting the Member States to review the framework of primary law on the basis of the failed Constitutional Treaty. Reconciling the desire to deepen European integration in several policy fields with the promises made to widen the Union with the current candidate countries (Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey) once they meet all criteria for membership is a big challenge, especially in view of the EU's ambitions to match the US in economic growth, connect with its own citizens and claim its role as a global player. The contributions to this timely volume provide an attempt at clarifying the legal possibilities and limits of models and concepts aimed at reconciling wishes of further 'deepening' and 'widening' of the European Union project.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Edition. edition
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9789067042642
• ISBN-10: 9067042641
• Artikelnr.: 23489965

Autorenporträt

Steven Blockmans, a former Head of Research at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague, the Netherlands, is a Senior Research Fellow and the Head of the EU Foreign Policy Unit, Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, Belgium; Professor of EU External Relations Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium and a member of the governing board of CLEER.

Inhaltsangabe

The European Integration Process: A Continuum of 'Deepening' and 'Widening'.- A Diagnosis of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Remedies and Reforms in the Domains of Immigration, Terrorism and Security.- 'Widening' vs. 'Deepening' The European Union: Free Movement vs. Social Rights in the Laval Case Before The ECJ .- Consolidating the Enlargement Agenda for South Eastern Europe.- Box of Chocolates Integration: The European Economic area and the Swiss Model Revisited.- On The European Union's Institutional Capacity to Cope with Further Enlargement.- A Flexible Future for The European Union: The way Forward or a way Out?.- Widen to Deepen? The Potential and Limits of Accession Treaties to Achieve EU Constitutional Reform.- Keynote Speech.- Report of the Discussions.