Nanette Neuwahl

• Unresolved Issues of the Constitution for Europe — Rethinking the Crisis
• Nanette Neuwahl
• Stefan Haack
• The results of the 2005 referenda in France and the Netherlands have stalled progress towards the European constitution. The EU is thus in a state of limbo, drawn between standstill and the need for reforms, and poses a challenge to social, legal and political science. In this book, authors from North America, Europe and Israel analyse the state of the European integration at the crossroads, with a view to evaluating the extent of the crisis, its causes and consequences, and providing possible ways out of the impasse.
  
  The authors reflect on the nature of the process of European unification and supranational constitutionalization and on the consequences of the rejection for the Union's capacity to act, given its responsibilities, its institutional structure and the legal position of its stakeholders. In addition, central sectors of the Union's activity are singled out, including the Single Market, social policy, foreign policy and justice and home affairs, to illustrate some of the potential consequences of a failure of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. Thus, there emerges a picture of what is required regardless of the question whether this Constitution enters into force: directions for advanced integration which take their cue from the nature of the Union in its hybrid state between international organisation and federal state.
  
• ISBN : 978-2-89400-234-6
• Date de parution : 2007-01-01

• Droit européen
• Nanette Neuwahl
• Revue juridique Thémis, 40-2 (2006)
• Date : 2006-01-01
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• European Union Enlargement — Law and Socio-Economic Changes
• Nanette Neuwahl
• L'unification de l'Europe s'est concrétisée lorsqu'en avril 2003, l'Union européenne a décidé d'admettre 10 nouveaux membres. La portée de cette expansion, unique dans l'histoire de l'UE, entraîne dans son sillage des défis sans précédent en ce qui a trait au nombre de personnes impliquées, aux différences sociales et culturelles entre les états concernés, leur importance géostratégique respective ainsi que leur diversité d'intérêts. Au moment où convergent de nombreuses propositions d'approfondissement de l'Union européenne, il est étonnant de constater le support que reçoit ce projet d'élargissement de l'UE. Ce dernier ne peut d'ailleurs pas se définir comme un simple rapport de forces positives et négatives s'annulant entre-elles. Pour l'UE, l'élargissement est davantage une obligation historique qu'un risque calculé. Certaines des plus importantes ramifications de ce changement capital de l'UE sont traitées dans ce livre avec pour objectif d'en clarifier la signification, l'ampleur et les coûts.
  
  The unification of Europe became a fact in April 2003, when the European Union decided to admit 10 new members. The scope of this expansion is unique in the EU's history and brings with it unprecedented challenges in terms of the numbers of people involved, the social and cultural differences between the states that are concerned, as well as in their geo-strategic importance and interests. It is amazing, especially in the light of the simultaneous proposals for the deepening of the European Union, that support for this enlargement of the EU could be found at all. Enlargement is not a zero-sum game where positive and negative aspects can be weighted against each other. For the EU, enlargement is a historical obligation rather that a calculated risk. Some of the more important ramifications of this momentous change are dealt with in the book with the aim of clarifying the significance, the extent and the costs of the coming changes in the EU.
• ISBN : 2-89400-183-5
• Date de parution : 2004-01-01