EU Neighbourhood Law

How does the EU legal structure impact on its relationship with third countries within its proximity? This original book explores this question, following three related lines of inquiry. Firstly, it examines similarities and differences between EU internal and external integration, looking at both EU membership and neighbourhood law. Secondly, it looks at the legal techniques relied upon to extend the EU''s legal space. And thirdly, it sheds light on the different political covenants underlying legal relations in the wider European legal space. The book explains how EU neighbourhood law entails a reconfiguration of how sovereignty is exercised both in the EU and in third countries participating in the extended EU legal space.>

Auteur
Alessandro Petti is Fellow at the Centre for European Law, University of Oslo. He has been Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence and holds a PhD from Sciences Po Law School, Paris. His principal interests are in the in the foundations and techniques of EU law, and in the relationship between EU law and international law.

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"This book turns Wider Europe into an analytical concept to capture the legal and political facets of the extension of the EU's legal space in the Union's neighbourhood. Firstly, it reflects on the similarities and differences between internal and external integration, drawing a distinction between EU membership law and EU neighbourhood law. Secondly, it unravels the techniques for the extension of the EU's legal space across different partnerships in the Union's neighbourhood. Thirdly, it sheds light on the political covenants underlying the variety of institutional arrangements of the extended EU's legal space"--

Résumé
The rekindling of the European Union enlargement talks and Brexit require a reappraisal of the law of the EU's proximity policies. In that light, this book turns *Wider Europe* into an analytical concept to capture the legal and political facets of the extension of the EU's legal space in the Union's neighbourhood. The book follows three lines of inquiry. Firstly, it reflects on the similarities and differences between internal and external integration, drawing a distinction between EU membership law and EU neighbourhood law. Secondly, it unravels the techniques for the extension of the EU's legal space across different partnerships in the Union's neighbourhood. Thirdly, it sheds light on the political covenants underlying the variety of institutional arrangements of the extended EU's legal space. The book discusses how EU neighbourhood law entails a reconfiguration of how sovereignty is exercised both in the EU and in third countries participating in the Wider Europe.

Contenu

1. Wider Europe as an Analytical Concept 2. EU Membership Law and EU Neighbourhood Law 3. The EEA and the EU Neighbourhood Law Continuum: Echelons of Gravitation Around the EU's Legal Order 4. Wider Europe in Morocco: Cross Dependence at the Bridge Between the EU and Africa 5. Wider Europe Through Functional Regimes 6. Narrower Europe? Russia and Ukraine 7. Brexit: Narrower EU in a Narrower Europe? 8. EU Neighbourhood Law: Techniques, Nature, and Effects of the Law of the Wider European Legal Space