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1. Centralised Enforcement, Legitimacy and Good Governance in the EU

   By Melanie Smith

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   Article 226 EC is the central mechanism of enforcement in the EC Treaty, and has remained unchanged since the original Treaty of Rome. It provides the European Commission, as guardian of the Treaty, with a broad power of policing Member States’ conduct. Article 226 has been traditionally...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Local Government in Europe

   The ‘Fourth Level’ in the EU Multi-Layered System of Governance

   Edited by Carlo Panara, Michael R. Varney

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book offers a comparative study of the structure of the local government in the countries within the European Union from a public law perspective. The book provides a detailed analysis of the state of local government in fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland,...

   Published April 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Early Warning System for the Principle of Subsidiarity

   Constitutional Theory and Empirical Reality

   By Philipp Kiiver

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book offers a comprehensive systematic analysis of the European Union’s Early Warning System (EWS) for subsidiarity, which was introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon. The book includes both a detailed theoretical analysis of the EWS as well as an assessment of how national parliaments have...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Evolving EU Counter-terrorism Legal Framework

   By Maria O'Neill

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   Since the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, and the contemporaneous publication of the Stockholm Programme, the area of freedom, security and justice has obtained a more secure legal basis within the EU treaty framework and now has a coherent policy programme set out for its...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
5. EU External Relations Law and the European Neighbourhood Policy

   A Paradigm for Coherence

   By Bart Van Vooren

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a recent example of an external EU policy drawn up explicitly with the objective of achieving coherence in the external policies of the EU and its Member States. Positioning the ENP in the legal-historical context of political union, this book explains why...

   Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
6. The European Constitution, Welfare States and Democracy

   The Four Freedoms vs National Administrative Discretion

   By Christoffer C. Eriksen

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book explores how the right to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital in the European Union legal order affects welfare states. These "four freedoms", as they are known, are vital instruments for the protection of a European market unencumbered by internal frontiers. The...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. EU External Relations and Systems of Governance

   The CFSP, Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Migration

   By Paul James Cardwell

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book takes a fresh look at the external relations of the European Union (EU) and in particular the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Rather than focusing exclusively on the competence aspects of the institutions and actors, the book makes the case that the CFSP can be understood as a...

   Published July 29th 2011 by Routledge
8. Turkey’s Accession to the European Union

   The Politics of Exclusion?

   By Edel Hughes

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   Turkey’s accession to the European Union is undoubtedly one of the Union’s most contested potential enlargements. The narrative that dominates the debate surrounding this issue primarily relates to problems such as a lack of respect for fundamental human rights in Turkey, the Kurdish question and...

   Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
9. Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union

   By Kirsten Shoraka

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   The end of the Cold War has ushered a restructuring of the institutions of the European Community, culminating into its enlargement to Eastern Europe, under the aegis of economic integration, democracy and human rights. This book examines the development and the role of human rights in the...

   Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
10. New Governance and the European Employment Strategy

    By Samantha Velluti

    Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

    In recent years new or experimental approaches to governance in the EU, namely the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), have attracted great interest and controversy. This book examines the European Employment Strategy (EES) and its implementation through the OMC, exploring the promises and...

    Published March 8th 2010 by Routledge