Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Allan Rosas and Lorna Armati Издательство: Страниц: 278 ISBN: 1841139173
Описание
This innovative book is based on the premise that the absence of a single constitutional document for the European Union does not imply the absence of a constitution. Rather, the EU constitution, composed of a myriad of legal texts, case law and practice, is a moving target subject to continuous change and comprises several layers of integration with varying geographical scope. The book endeavours to make sense of this highly complex constitutional order by focusing on what the authors perceive to be the essential features of the system, taking into account the profound changes which have taken place over the past 20 years. The EU has become much more than an internal economic market and has recently been active even in areas such as immigration and third-country nationals, security and defence policy and penal law and procedure. Rather than casting the reader adrift in a sea of institutional and procedural detail, the authors underline the essential values, principles and...
