Overview
- Comprehensive analysis on the need to amend the post-Lisbon EU Treaties
- Gives the reader a clear and complete understanding on the way in which the EU primary law is able to face the present and future challenges of the Union
- In-depth coverage of all the principal constitutional developments in different areas of EU law
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The European Union at Crossroads: General Issues on Treaties’ Revision
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Fundamental Rights After Lisbon
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Conclusions
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About this book
The book contains a collection of high-quality academic and expert contributions dealing with the central question of whether the Lisbon Treaty needs further revision. Due to the difficulties European Union actors have encountered in implementing the Lisbon Treaty’s reform and the inadequacies of the current legal framework brought to light by post-Lisbon practice, the volume focuses on possible innovations and functional approaches to improve the Union’s response to the challenges confronting it.
In doing so, the volume first takes a horizontal approach to the Treaty’ revision and considers some constitutional features showing the interaction between the EU and its Member States (namely, the parameters of constitutional developments, the allocation of competences, the principles of solidarity and loyal cooperation). Then, the focus shifts to the question of fundamental rights within the EU’s constitutional framework, one of the most relevant innovations of the Lisbon Treaty being the incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the Union’s primary law. The last part of the volume is devoted to another domain significantly reshaped by the Lisbon reform, namely, the Union’s external dimension. ECJ Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi’s conclusions highlight the common themes emerging from the various contributions, stressing the need for a more general supranational approach to the political crisis the Union is going through.
The content of this book will be of great value to academics, students, judges, practitioners and all others interested in the legal discourse on the progressive development of the European Union legal order.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lucia Serena Rossi is Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Professor at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (Italy); Federico Casolari is Assistant Professor of International Law and Senior Lecturer of European Union Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (Italy).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The EU after Lisbon
Book Subtitle: Amending or Coping with the Existing Treaties?
Editors: Lucia Serena Rossi, Federico Casolari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04591-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04590-0Published: 09 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34890-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04591-7Published: 25 June 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 317
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Law, International Relations, European Integration