The European Union and Global Emergencies: A Law and Policy Analysis

Description

This collection of essays analyses the European Union's involvement in global emergencies from a law and policy perspective. Bringing together leading academics and officials from the European Union institutions, the book offers an expert account of the theoretical and practical issues the EU faces when dealing with global emergencies. The subjects covered are highly topical and include the financial and debt crises, regional security and the fight against terrorism, public health and food scares, human trafficking and energy security.

Antonis Antoniadis is a Legal Officer at the Office of the European Ombudsman, a Lecturer in Law at Durham University and has served as the Deputy Director of the Durham European Law Institute. Robert Schutze is a Reader in Law at Durham University. Eleanor Spaventa is a Reader in Law at Durham University, Director of the Durham European Law Institute, and Professor of European Law at the College of Europe, Natolin.

These papers are the most lively written and are fully on topic. And this is not an introduction to the usual lament on unevenness of collected papers: almost all contributions are self-consistent, scholarly, well annotated and present original research. -- Wim Pelt * Law and Politics Book Review, Volume 23, Number 10 * [A] most welcome addition to this growing body of literature. ...the book...is certainly to be recommended. Academics and practitioners will benefit from it. Through the lens of the 'emergency constitution' approach, the books offers a high standard of analysis of the main legal and also political challenges that the EU faces in addressing global emergencies. To be sure, the debate is far from being closed. New recent emergencies which involve the EU, such as the extension of debt risks to other EU Member States and the well-known changes of regime in some North African countries, prove that the topic, and the book under review, has never been so timely. -- Riccardo Sciaudone * European Foreign Affairs Review * The collection ... makes a welcome contribution to a thin literature. -- Urfan Khaliq * European Law Review, Volume 38 * ...an extremely comprehensive contribution to understanding this complex field! -- Michel Theys * Agence Europe, No. 935 *