This book is timely, concerning as it does the future of the European Union, written when the political, economic and legal fabric of the European Union is under particular strain as a result of the financial crisis that began in 2008. The author is someone to be listened to in this regard....

The EEC, now the EU, has passed its half-century. The sixty plus years have witnessed development, change and evolution that will be charted in the chapters of this book. This chapter seeks to lay the groundwork for later discussion by considering two related issues. The first half of the...

There is a very considerable literature on the internal market. It is sophisticated and diverse, and, as might be expected, there are a plethora of views on most central issues. This chapter explores an issue that is in relative terms under-theorized, viz the regulation of the euro area and its...

The Brexit saga concluded in a predictably dramatic manner. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK was completed at the 11th hour, just days before the end of the transition period. The preceding days bore the hallmarks of discourse that verged between the stage managed...

The financial crisis, and resulting crisis with the Euro, has had profound effects on the EU, and its Member States, even those that do not form part of the Euro zone. It has generated a welter of measures to combat the ‘problem' and this flurry of initiatives has not yet come to an end, nor...

This chapter is an historical perspective on the internal market. It is a challenging enterprise. To distil a narrative flow from 60 years of development necessitates discretion and choice, the very exercise of which perforce shapes the ensuing story. There are doubtless multiple stories that...