EU Enlargement: A Legal Approach

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The enlargement of the EU to embrace Central, Eastern and Southern Europe is usually analysed from political and economic points of view, but the current process also has significant legal implications, which this edited collection aims to explore. Written by scholars and officials from both the EU and the new Member States, the contributions cover three main themes. The first chapters examine how Treaty-based accession conditions have been elaborated and controlled to meet the particular needs of the present process. The second part of the book analyses the modalities of accession and in particular the unprecedented "pre-accession strategy" established by the Union with a view to monitoring the transformation of the candidate countries' legal orders. The final group of chapters envisage the impact of enlargement on the EU institutions and policies, both internal and external.

Christophe Hillion is a Lecturer in Law at University College London and a former Deputy Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge.

...can be recommended for anyone interested in the legal dimension of the EU enlargement. It is a good reference for further 'deepening' of the subject and more focused research. -- Dr. Bartlomiej Kurcz, European Commission, DG Competition * www.europeanbooks.org * ...a useful addition to the literature on EU Enlargement...written by distinguished specialists in the field...There is no doubt that Hillion's book is of value...this is a very good book which examines a topic that will remain a subject of academic analysis for years to come. -- Adam Lazowski, The Hague * European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol 10, Issue 2 *