Between Compliance and Particularism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Between Compliance and Particularism

   • Marton Varju, Veronika Czina

   Pages 1-20

3. In Search of Limits for the Protection of National Identities as a Member State Interest

   • Darinka Piqani

   Pages 21-47

4. EU Loyalty and the Protection of Member States’ National Interests

   • Federico Casolari

   Pages 49-78

5. EU Post-crisis Economic and Financial Market Regulation

   • Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel

   Pages 79-102

6. Member State Interests and EU Internal Market Law

   • Mónika Papp

   Pages 103-127

7. Member State Interests in EU State Aid Law and Policy

   • Francesco de Cecco

   Pages 129-145

8. Member States’ Interest in the Enforcement of EU Competition Law

   • Or Brook, Katalin J. Cseres

   Pages 147-170

9. Against the Grain? Member State Interests and EU Procurement Law

   • Albert Sanchez-Graells

   Pages 171-189

10. Member State Interests and the EU Law on Unfair B2C and B2B Practices

    • Monika Namysłowska, Agnieszka Jabłonowska

    Pages 191-211

11. Member State Interests and European Union Law

    • Mária Éva Földes

    Pages 213-232

12. Managing Novel Food Technologies and Member States’ Interests

    • Ludivine Petetin

    Pages 233-253

13. Local Interests and Social Integration in Europe

    • Sára Hungler

    Pages 255-281

14. The Duty of Sincere Cooperation and Its Implications for Autonomous Member State Action in the Field of External Relations

    • Peter Van Elsuwege

    Pages 283-298

15. Member States’ Interests and the Common Commercial Policy

    • Balázs Horváthy

    Pages 299-320

16. Foreign Policy Without Unilateral Alternatives?

    • Viktor Szép

    Pages 321-338

The book examines how the interests of the member states, which provide the primary driving force for developments in European integration, are internalised and addressed by the law of the European Union. In this context, member state interests are taken to mean the policy considerations, economic calculations, local socio-cultural factors, and the raw expressions of political will which shape EU policies and determine member state responses to the obligations arising from those policies. The book primarily explores the junctions and disjunctions between member state interests defined in such a manner and EU law, where the latter expresses either an obligation for the member states to comply with common policies or an acceptance of member state particularism under the common EU framework.

• EU obligations
• Member state interests
• Compliance
• National particularism
• EU framework
• european union politics

• Center for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

  Marton Varju

​Marton Varju is senior research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre of Social Sciences and head of the Lendület-HPOPs Research Group. He is also senior legal advisor at the Kúria, Budapest.

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