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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Trust and distrust: Delineations and reflections on the protagonists of the EU accession saga. – III. Opinion 2/13 and its aftermath: The politics of distrust. – IV. The mirage of trust: The ECtHR and the draft accession instruments. – V. The road ahead: (Re-)building trust post-accession. – VI....

Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Guiding principles. – III. Proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights. – III.1. The co-respondent mechanism. – III.2. The “prior involvement” of the Court of Justice. – III.3. Operation of inter-party applications and ECHR advisory opinions. – III.4. The principle of mutual trust between EU Member...

Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Seeing the wood for the trees: the background. – III. How did the Court of Justice of the European Union use the extra time? – IV. Conclusions.

Abstract: Ten years ago, when the Court of Justice delivered Opinion 2/13, the author of the present Article...

Table of Contents: I. Introduction: “The disappointment that we felt”. – II. Connolly continued: complaints about acts of the EU institutions. – III. Back to real Bosphorus: complaints about EU Member States implementing EU law. – IV. No blind trust: complaints about cooperation between EU Member States. – IV.1. Avotiņš:...