Democracy and Rule of Law in the European Union

Chapter 1 What Is the Rule of Law and Why Is It So Important?

Chapter 2 National Parliaments and EU Economic Governance. In Search of New Ways to Enhance Democratic Legitimacy

Chapter 3 The Growing Role of the Union in Protection of Rule of Law

Chapter 4 The Rise and Rise of EU Citizenship

Chapter 5 The Role of National Courts in the Process of Legal Integration in the European Union: Retrospective and Prospective

Chapter 6 Towards a European Council of the Judiciary: Some Reflections on the Administration of the EU Courts

Chapter 7 How to Define the European Union?

Chapter 8 Negotiations in the Ordinary Legislative Procedure: The Perspective of the European Parliament

Chapter 9 The European Union Development Policies Are Based on European Values, Democracy, Respect for the Rule of Law and Human Rights

Chapter 10 EU Enlargement, Its Impact at the European and National Level, and the Case of Albania

Chapter 11 European Ruling on Pensions: A Second Warning for the Netherlands

Chapter 12 Over the Edge: European External Policy in Evolution

Chapter 13 Confiscation of Proceeds from Crime: a Challenge for Criminal Justice?

Chapter 14 European Union’s Readmission Policy in the Post-Stockholm Programme Era

Chapter 15 Das regionale Privatrecht und die Harmonisierung des Privatrechts in der Europäischen Union

Chapter 16 Selected Legal and Policy Implications Arising from the EU–ICC Agreement of 2006