Routledge Research in EU Law
Criminal Law and Policy in the European Union
1st Edition
By Samuli Miettinen
September 11, 2014
This book takes stock of the development of EU criminal law from the establishment of the ECSC to the first European Union criminal law directives passed after the Lisbon Treaty. The work considers criminal offences established at EU level, the effects of EU law on national criminalization, the ...
European Perspectives on Environmental Law and Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Suzanne Kingston
June 19, 2014
This book provides a range of perspectives on some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in EU environmental law and governance from some of today’s leading European environmental academics and practitioners. The book maintains a focus on three key cross-cutting issues, each of which is ...
Turkey’s Accession to the European Union: The Politics of Exclusion?
1st Edition
By Edel Hughes
November 20, 2013
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 ...
EU External Relations Law and the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Paradigm for Coherence
1st Edition
By Bart Van Vooren
October 25, 2013
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...
The Early Warning System for the Principle of Subsidiarity: Constitutional Theory and Empirical Reality
1st Edition
By Philipp Kiiver
October 25, 2013
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 ...
The Evolving EU Counter-terrorism Legal Framework
1st Edition
By Maria O'Neill
October 25, 2013
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 ...
The European Constitution, Welfare States and Democracy: The Four Freedoms vs National Administrative Discretion
1st Edition
By Christoffer C. Eriksen
May 31, 2013
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 ...
New Governance and the European Employment Strategy
1st Edition
By Samantha Velluti
September 10, 2012
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 ...
Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union
1st Edition
By Kirsten Shoraka
May 29, 2012
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 ...
Centralised Enforcement, Legitimacy and Good Governance in the EU
1st Edition
By Melanie Smith
April 20, 2012
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 ...
EU External Relations and Systems of Governance: The CFSP, Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Migration
1st Edition
By Paul James Cardwell
July 30, 2011
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 ...