struggles between European and national constitutional law. The different readings of proportionality are difficult to bridge …, and the mutually exclusive claims about the nature of the supremacy of European law are not accessible to compromise at …

countries ; Central and Eastern Europe ; enlargement ; Europeanization ; fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis …

Driven by the European Court of Justice and the European Commission, “integration through law” has led to a broad … who use European law as an instrument to enforce their own interests. The European judges deciding cases are characterized … by an integrationist perception of the aims of European law. Ex-post political correction of ECJ decisions is unlikely …

The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze …. -- European Union law ; directives ; compliance ; European Court of Justice ; court behavior ; uncertainty ; legal process …

perspective, namely the re-conceptualisation of European law as "new type of conflicts law". The new type of conflicts law which … conflict between European economic freedoms and national industrial relations (collective labour) law. The recent jurisprudence … labour law is criticised as a counter-productive deepening of Europe's constitutional asymmetry and its social deficit. …