Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union.

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 AMENDMENT -- CONCLUSIONS: 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 -- CONCLUSION -- 5. 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 TIME.

CONCLUSIONS -- 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 -- INTRODUCTION -- CORPORATE 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 -- 14. Enhancing Corporate Governance in the New Member States: Does EU Law Help? -- INTRODUCTION -- CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES IN TEMS -- FIRM LEVEL GOVERNANCE UNDER THE AC -- STATE OWNERSHIP UNDER THE AC -- INSTITUTIONAL GOVERNANCE UNDER THE AC -- CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS -- 15. Corporate Law and Governance in an Enlarged Europe -- 16. Corporate and Securities Law Conditions in the Acquis Communautaire: A Comment on Pistor and Berglöf and Pajuste -- APPROPRIATE CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING WHAT CORPORATE AND SECURITIES LAWS SHOULD BE IMPOSED ON THE TEMS -- APPLYING THE CRITERIA TO THE AC -- INTELLECTUAL GAINS FROM THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING AND CRITIQUING THE CONDITIONS.

Part IV: Domestic Institution Building in the Shadow of the Acquis -- 17. Implementation and Compliance Stimulus for New Governance Structures in the Accession Countries -- THE EVOLVING CONCEPT OF IMPLEMENTATION IN EC LAW -- THE CONCEPT AND EVOLUTION OF COMPLIANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION WITHIN THE EU -- METHODS FOR SECURING IMPLEMENTATION AND COMPLIANCE IN ACCESSION COUNTRIES -- CONCLUSION -- 18. Accession's Impac on Constitutionalism in the New Member States -- NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS RELATING TO EU MEMBERSHIP -- UNSETTLED CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS -- THE IMPACT ON DOMESTIC CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES: A NEW SEPARATION OF POWERS -- 19. EU Accession in Light of Evolving Constitutionalism in Poland -- CONCLUSIONS -- 20. Contested Norms in the Process of EU Enlargement: Non-Discrimination and Minority Rights -- INTRODUCTION -- CASE AND ARGUMENT -- NON-DISCRIMINATION AND MINORITY RIGHTS: EU RULES AND CONDITIONALITY -- COMPLIANCE WITH EU CONDITIONALITY IN APPLICANT COUNTRIES: ROMANIA, HUNGARY, AND POLAND -- DOMESTIC NORM CONSTRUCTION AND EUROPEAN STANDARDS: CONTESTED MINORITY CONCEPTS IN POLAND -- CONCLUSION: LONG-TERM EFFECTS AND BACKLASH AGAINST THE EU -- 21. The Fifth Enlargement: More of the Same? -- 22. Accession's Internal Dimension in the New Member States -- Index.

This book's principal aim is to critically address the institutional and substantive legal issues resulting from European enlargement.

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