Part I: Democratic Institutions and Practices.- EU Enlargement and Democracy in New Member States.- The Eastern EU Enlargement and the Janus-Headed Nature of the Constitutional Treaty.- A Problem of Their Own, Solutions of Their Own: CEE Jurisdictions and the Problems of Lustration and Retroactivity.- Citizens and Foreigners in the Enlarged Europe.- Sub-National Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: Between Transition and Europeanization.- The Copenhagen Criteria and the Evolution of Popular Consent to EU Norms: From Legality to Normative Justifiability in Poland and the Czech Republic.- Part II: Constitutionalism.- Becoming Europeans: The Impact of EU Constitutionalism on Post-Communist Pre-Modernity.- Happy Returns to Europe? The Union s Identity, Constitution-Making, and Its Impact on the Central European Accession States.- Why Will Cognitive and Cultural Boundaries Matter? An Evolutionary Approach to the Constitutionalisation of the Enlarged EU.- Constitutional Tolerance and EU Enlargement: the Politics of Dissent?.- Europeanisation Through Judicial Activism? The Hungarian Constitutional Court s Legitimacy and the Return to Europe .- Part III: The Rule of Law.- Barbarians ante portas or the Post-Communist Rule of Law in Post-Democratic European Union.- Transformation and Integration of Legal Cultures and Discourses Poland.- EU Enlargement and the Constitutional Principle of Judicial Independence.- Post-Communist Legal Orders and the Roma: Some Implications for EU Enlargement.- A Europe of Variable Geometry: Still a Winning Model?.- Concluding Remarks. Conclusions: The Adhesion of New Member States to the European Union and the European Constitution.
EAN/ISBN : 9781402038426
Publisher(s): Springer Netherlands
Discussed keywords: Osterweiterung (EU), Osteuropa, Recht, Transformationsländer
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Sadurski, Wojciech - Czarnota, Adam - Krygier, Martin