Governance and Security Issues of the European Union

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of crucial issues concerning EU co-operation and European security. At present, Europe is confronted with a number of serious common and global challenges, the most important being the economic crisis, migration issues, geopolitical tensions at its external borders, terrorism, climate change and environmental challenges. These developments have a huge impact on the stability and security of the continent as a whole and on each individual European country. Europe, more particularly the European Union, has to organize its governance and security infrastructure in such a way that it can cope with these global threats. This edited volume collects a number of topics and themes connected to the governance and/or security dimensions of EU co-operation. The book is divided into several parts, which deal respectively with the values and general principles of EU co-operation; institutional aspects of EU co-operation; a number of individual policy domains; areas of European criminal law; the external relations of the EU; and the future functioning of EU co-operation as a whole. The eighteen chapters, written by a team of experts with extensive practical and academic experience, contain insights and information valuable to researchers, students, practitioners and policy makers concerned with EU law and international law.

Introduction The Early Years of European Integration—German and Dutch Reactions to the Schuman Plan Schuman in Times of Upheaval Better Regulation in the EU—A Process and Debate at the Core of Regional Integration Informal Decision-Making in the EU: Assessing Trialogues in the Light of Deliberative Democracy The Five Principles of European Political Communication A Law and Economics Approach to the New EU Privacy Regulation: Analysing the European General Data Protection Regulation The EU Economic Governance Framework and the Issue of Debt Time to Shift Towards Shared-Burden Responsibility: A Review of the Syrian Mass Influx Migration Energy Policy in the European Union: Renewable Energy and the Risks of Subversion European Framework Agreements at Company Level and the EU 2020 Strategy A Balanced Package: Fighting Money Laundering with the 4th European Directive Harmonising Criminal Laws and EU’s Significant Bankers: First Use of Article 83(2) TFEU, Rights of the Accused and Learning Organisations Corruption and Security: The Role of Negotiated Settlements Taking Stock of the “Common” in the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy Will Sleeping Beauty Wake up? Proposals for a New EU Global Strategy on CFDP Up Towards a Coherent and Inclusive EU Policy on Natural Resources: Treaty Amendment Proposals Flexibility, Differentiation and Simplification in the European Union: Remedies for the Future?