Full Description
The rekindling of the European Union enlargement talks and Brexit require a reappraisal of the law of the EU's proximity policies. In that light, this book turns Wider Europe into an analytical concept to capture the legal and political facets of the extension of the EU's legal space in the Union's neighbourhood.
The book follows three lines of inquiry. Firstly, it reflects on the similarities and differences between internal and external integration, drawing a distinction between EU membership law and EU neighbourhood law. Secondly, it unravels the techniques for the extension of the EU's legal space across different partnerships in the Union's neighbourhood. Thirdly, it sheds light on the political covenants underlying the variety of institutional arrangements of the extended EU's legal space.
The book discusses how EU neighbourhood law entails a reconfiguration of how sovereignty is exercised both in the EU and in third countries participating in the Wider Europe.
Contents
1. Introduction
Part One: Turning Wider Europe into an Analytical Concept
2. Wider Europe and the Interplay of Law and Geopolitics
3. The Relationship Between EU Membership Law and EU Neighbourhood Law
Part Two: Wider Europe and Multilateral Regimes: The Poles of the EU Neighbourhood Law Continuum
4. The European Economic Area: A Paradigm and a Pole of the EU Neighbourhood Law Continuum
5. Wider Europe Through Functional Regimes
Part Three: Wider Europe through Bilateral Partnerships
6. Ukraine at the Crossroad between a Wider and Narrower Europe
7. Narrower Europe? The EU's Relations with the UK and Switzerland through Brexit
8. Wider and yet distant Europe in Morocco: Cross Dependence at the Bridge Between the EU and Africa
Part Four: A Distinctive and yet Contested Type of Regional Law
9. EU Neighbourhood Law: Gravitation and Contestation in the Extended EU's Legal Space
10. Conclusion
