Electoral Accountability in the European Union: An Analysis of the European Parliament Elections with Respect to the EU’s Political Deficit

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. European Union: a democratic or a political deficit? – III. Conceptualizing accountability. – IV. Mechanisms of accountability in the EU and the EP elections. – IV.1. EU complexities. – IV.2. The deficiencies of electoral accountability. – V. Conclusion: from legitimacy to authority. – VI. Acknowledgments....

Re-connecting Authority and Democratic Legitimacy in the EU: Introductory Remarks

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Table of Contents: I. The disconnection between the loci of authority and those of democratic control. – II. The competence problem in the Union. – III. Reconciling Europe with its citizens through democracy and rule of law. – IV. Scope and contents.

Abstract: One of the main problems the Union has...

The Integration of Migration Concerns into EU External Policies: Instruments, Techniques and Legal Problems

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The Compacts and the practical arrangements for the return of irregular migrants and their impact on the principle of institutional balance. – III. The Compacts with countries hosting refugees: the context of their adoption and their legal nature. – IV. The integration of refugees in the job market of the...

Transnational Judicial Review in Horizontal Composite Procedures: Berlioz, Donnellan, and the Constitutional Law of the Union

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The case of Berlioz: towards transnational judicial review. – III. Transnational judicial review and the constitutional law of the Union. – III.1. The right to an effective judicial remedy. – III.2. Other principles of constitutional law of the Union. – IV. The case of Donnellan: one step...

The European Form of Family Life: The Case of EU Citizenship

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Table of Contents: I. Family life as a European legal form. – I.1. Family life and social life: the impotence of European Union law? – I.2. The family as a “form of life”: an existential approach to European Union law. – I.3. Law and forms of European family life: starting with concrete lives. The case of citizenship. – II. The European de-formation...

The Two Faces of European Sovereignty

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Table of Contents: I. No European sovereignty... – II. ... But a "Europeanised" (concept of) sovereignty.

Abstract: "European sovereignty" seems at first sight to be a misnomer. The EU is not sovereign in the classical sense of the word. By contrast, it can be argued that the EU transforms national...

A Sovereign Europe as a Future of Sovereignty

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Table of Contents: I. Divorcing sovereignty from the state. – II. The post-traditional conception of sovereignty. – III. A functionally sovereign European Union.

Abstract: Since the Peace of Westphalia sovereign political entities have unexceptionally been States and sovereignty has been thus long...

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