Law and governance in an enlarged European Union / edited by George Bermann and Katharina Pistor.

This book's principal aim is to critically address the institutional and substantive legal issues resulting from European enlargement, chiefly those relating to the legal foundations on which the enlarged Union is being built. The accession of new Member States creates the potential for a stron...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Bermann, George A., Pistor, Katharina
Other title:Law and governance in an enlarged Europe.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2004.
Series:Essays in European law.
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Table of Contents:
  • Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Legal Foundations of the Enlarged European Union; 1. Institutional Settlements for an Enlarged European Union; INTRODUCTION; INSTITUTIONAL REORGANISATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION; CONCLUSION; 2. A Constitution for Europe? Some Hard Choices; HARD CHOICES; THE PURE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE: TREATY MASQUERADING AS CONSTITUTION OR CONSTITUTION MASQUERADING AS TREATY?; CONSTITUTIONAL SPECIFICITY: EUROPE'S SOCIAL UNIQUENESS; THE QUESTION OF COMPETENCES; THE CHARTER.
  • ENTRY INTO FORCE AND FUTURE AMENDMENTCONCLUSIONS: THE CONSTITUTIONAL MOMENT; 3. The Role of the EU Charter of Rights in the Process of Enlargement; THE CHARTER AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONDITIONALITY; THE SOVEREIGNTY CONUNDRUM AND THE CHARTER; CONCLUSIONS: CONSTITUTIONALISATION, RIGHTS AND ENLARGEMENT; 4. The Challenge of Cooperative Regulatory Relations after Enlargement; INTRODUCTION; THE COLLECTIVE ACTION CONCEPTION OFEUROPEAN GOVERNANCE; THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE COLLECTIVE ACTION APPROACH TO OTHER THEORIES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION; THE COLLECTIVE ACTION ANALYSIS OF THE CHALLENGES OF ENLARGEMENT.
  • CONCLUSION5. The Legal Foundations of the Enlarged European Union; A COMMENT BY GEORGE A BERMANN AND GRÁINNE DE BÚRCA; Part II: The Governance of Labour Relations; 6. The Convergence of European Labour and Social Rights: Opening to the Open Method of Coordination; REGULATORY TECHNIQUES IN EUROPEAN LABOUR AND SOCIAL LAW: THE END OF HARMONISATION?; INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS: THE DISCUSSION WITHIN THE 'CONVENTION ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE'; 7. The EU Agenda for Regulating Labour Markets: Lessons from the UK in the Field of Working Time; INTRODUCTION; METHODS FOR REGULATING THE EU LABOUR MARKET.
  • CASE STUDY OF WORKING TIMECONCLUSIONS; 8. European Enlargement: A Comparative View of Hungarian Labour Law; INTRODUCTION; THE EFFECTS OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SHIFTS IN EMPLOYMENT AND THE LABOUR MARKET; THE ACQUIS AND THE IMPACT OF HARMONISATION ON HUNGARIAN LABOUR LAW; CHANGES IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 9. The Institutional Conditions for Effective Labour Law in the New Member States; 10. Social Law at the Time of European Union Enlargement; -I-; -II; Part III: Corporate Governance; 11. The EU Model of Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation.
  • INTRODUCTIONCORPORATE LAW; FINANCIAL MARKET REGULATION; FINAL REMARKS; 12. Complying with EU Corporate Standards: A Practitioner''s View from Poland; INTRODUCTION; MAIN SOURCES OF FOREIGN INSPIRATION; IMPORTING FOREIGN LEGAL INSTITUTIONS; A FOOTNOTE ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE RULES; CONCLUSIONS; 13. Emerging Owners, Eclipsing Markets? Corporate Governance in Central and Eastern Europe; INTRODUCTION; THE INSTITUTIONAL BACKDROP; INCREASINGLY CONCENTRATED OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL; DEFINING THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PROBLEM; CONCLUSIONS.